This past weekend I had a booth at the Las Damas 44th annual Sunset Beach Arts and Crafts Festival held on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday was overcast, but after the morning fog lifted on Sunday, the weather was sunny and beautiful. The venue is lovely, and the festival is nestled under trees in the parkway between the beach and hip beach houses.
Being Mother's Day weekend, I was hopeful that the show would be a success. Many of the show goers were mostly interested in low priced items. The booth next to me, selling mainly $5 and $10 feather earrings and hair pieces, was doing a brisk business.
This was my first time doing this show, and I was frankly, disappointed both in the amount of my sales and the quality of the items being sold by other venders. More than a few of the booths were selling items ($1 to $3) that belonged at a flea market. The show was expanded this year and that may have been part of the reason for my lower than average sales. There were some artists who said that this show was good for them but the majority said this show was down by 50%.
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