Medford show 2

Its been a month now since my last show in Gloucester City. I've been pushing myself lately for this show and I realized that that wasn't a good move. At least it didn't rain. For the weather of this show, it was a sunny day, but the bad part was the heat wave. I think it was over 90 degrees. When I was setting up, I began to sweat quickly. For this, I bought a towel and a cooler with 7 bottles of Poland Springs. From the entire show, I killed 4 bottles. It took me a couple of hours again for the set up. As I was setting up, There was ants everywhere. No, it wasn't a swarm of them. I even spotted a dragonfly in my canopy, but it didn't do any harm. The dragonfly was after the ants so I was like, "Knock yourself out.". Also, i added heavy bricks and several sets of big nails to make sure the canopy doesn't fly away from the wind. That's right. You're not going anywhere.



During the first three hours, it was going good when the people started coming. Of course the kids started going crazy once more. After noon, the business was starting to get slow. I almost ended up selling Optimus Prime to a young kid. A few people kept talking about him. This kid was with his mom when buying the transformer but a minute later, they came back for an exchange for Batman. I didn't mind. I didn't do too bad at this show. I was understandable on why the business was slow. Since the weather was so hot, everyone had the beach in mind. Get it? This happened to me before at the Cherry Hill Blooms Festival back in 2009. I kept stepping out of my canopy to get a breeze. My canopy had walls. Speaking of canopies, I finally got pics of my new display look. I'm still working on some new adjustments for the future. As I was waiting for customers, I pulled out my floral stems and started making two figurines in their beginning stages. I didn't have my pipe cleaner kit to finish them. For the two, I had Freddy Krueger and the Lord of Darkness from the movie Legend in mind. A few people were laughing at a figurine I had out there. This character was a box of french fries with arms, legs, sunglasses, and a pistol. I had this guy last years' Medford show and it was purchased by one of the vendors of the show.


As the show drawn to a close, my best friend Roya shows up to visit me. She was somewhat unaware that the show was over, thinking that the show ended at 5pm, but it ended at 4pm. It was nice of her to help me close everything up. We had fun chatting. After the show, Roya went home and I drove him and cranked up that AC. I treated myself to IHOP after the show. I had pancakes in mind for dinner and it was just what the doctor ordered.

Between this show and last year's, I enjoyed last year's better. I sold more and it wasn't all that hot at the time, but I will do better next time. My question is, Where will my next show be?


Figurines sold:

Yoda, Pikachu, Yoshi, Batman, UFO Alien, Spongebob, Spinosaurus, Pegasus(Mini), and Superman.

Gloucester City show - Take 2

This is the first time I ever get to use this blogger thing. Well, here we go. I had my latest craft show yesterday at Gloucester City, NJ. This was my 2nd appearance at this place. A nice area. Close to the river. There wasn't a whole lot going on at this show, but I didn't mind. At least it wasn't like the last one.

Back in May, I had a show in Magnolia, NJ called the Magnolia Mayfair. It was a baseball show. It was a nice area to have a show. I had a lil prediction of what will go on. Since this was a baseball show, I made a few Philly Phanatics for sale and I sold quite a few. It had a nice start to the show. Kids of course went crazy over my stuff. Around the last couple of hours of the show, the wind started picking up. I had weights to hold my canopy, but it turns out that it wasn't enough. The wind became so strong that my entire display got destroyed. My display boards, canopy, easel, destroyed. It turns out that everyone was having the same problem. I saw some people leaving the show because it was impossible to have a business running with the heavy winds in the area so I decided to leave as well. It wasn't right. On the positive side, I made my sales.

Back to the latest show, it took me over a month to recover from my last show so I went out to get new and stronger materials. I'm still making adjustments to my display. From my new materials, it took me longer to set up, but it looked nice. I didn't any pictures of it. I had my camera, but the SD card wasn't inside so i was like, "DAMMIT!" There's always next time. It was hot as hell at this show. It was around the 90's. I bought a frozen bottle of water with me, but I went out to the food stand anyways to get a cheeseburger, fries and a soda. Their weren't too far away anyways. Next time I have a show, I'm bringing a cooler. Around the middle of the day, my business started to pick up. Some of the vendors recognized me from last year's show. The wind started to pick up, but just barely. i was feeling a lil traumatized from my incident at the Magnolia Mayfair. Fortunately, I had heavier weights so it was holding on. Around closing, I received last minute customers. They went for Freddy and Jason. It turns out they were horror movie fanatics. It was a nice lil show. It coulda been better, but it was fine with me. My next show will be in Medford. Medford, here I come...


Figurines sold:

Spongebob, Tweety Bird, Spiderman, Toon Link, Pokemon: Togetic, Kirby, Freddy Krueger, and Jason Voorhees