I've check into booth space and have found a spot that is very reasonable - Frisco Mercantile, the starter space is 5x10' and $200 per month (the next nearest shop is nearly $600 for that size space!)
I know that I have a good eye for quality vintage pieces and interesting, unique items. And I think that my artwork will fit nicely with vintage items. I also have a passion for marketing and "dressing", even my traveling booth ends up looking like an antique's booth:
(I was going to insert a pic of my recent booth set up here, but somehow instead erased all the images from my camera phone! EEEEK)
I need your help though! To my friends in the blogosphere who have shops or booths:
- What do you consider "essential" to your booth/business? (i.e. a few big shopping/stock ups or continual small shopping trips, a storage space, permenant "fixtures, etc.)
- What do you wish you had done differently when you started?
Have fun on you new venture!!! I have a 10 X 10 booth in an antique store in our small town. I don't know how to answer your 2 questions but just want to encourage you to not get in over your head with inventory. I am not sure where you live or how the economy is going there - we are in a slow down here. My booth does fairly well and all the other booth vendors feel it is because I have it decorated so cute. It took me 3 moves to finally figure out my style for the booth and I even got a window booth at the request of the owner for no additional cost!!- Keep freshening it up and move things around alot- Remember above all that it is for fun-
ReplyDeleteI live in a small town and so for inventory whenever I go to the big city I hit all the thrift stores and garage sales-
Well I don't know that I helped very much but just wanted to tell you to enjoy the process!
blessings
mary