Our First ArtFair!

I was just showing a friend some pictures from the University in the Park ArtFair we participated in this past August, and decided to blog about this experience since it was our first artfair.

First we had to decide what pieces of jewelry to display. Then we worked on displaying them, locating a place for piece in the display, designing a tagging system for each piece, setting a fair price.. well, you get the picture.  Debi purchased two louvered bi-fold doors at garage sales and repainted them.    Debi's husband made stands for the doors to keep them from falling over.  We planned to use branches from a cherry tree randomly inserted  between the louvers of the doors to display our necklaces.

We arrived at the artfair site at 6:30am to begin setup of our table and the bi-fold doors.We draped many of our chain necklaces from our Leaf and Flower collections over the branches.  We added a small bare tree on our display table and hung smaller items - bracelets and earrings - from that.  We also had several necklace displays setup to feature a few of our unique designs.

Although the day was hot, there was an occasional breeze that caused  the necklaces to sway as they hung suspended from their respective branches.  This caught the eye of many passersby.  We gave our shoppers the opportunity to try the jewelry on and when we finally made a sale, we were thrilled!



Lovered door displays



We also took the time to walk through the artfair and visit with other vendors.  This gave us a better idea of how to improve our displays and market our jewelry.  Ideas are already percolating for our next artfair.  And believe us, there will be more!!



 

Table top displays