Congrats on the market! I bet all the people who tried a sample are going to come back and buy next week! I'm glad that you were able to have someone there with you, it helps to have company. Your friends dd sounds so cute!
First Friday went well, though not as well as I first hoped. There is now another soaper in the market, and even though we were the first vendors to arrive, we were parked all the way at the very end and she was in the front were all the traffic came in. We picked up toward the end because people who were leaving came through our end, but a lot of people were like "Oh, another soap lady? Y'all have a lot soap vendors" We took home $250, which is good, but I think if we had a better spot we would have moved a lot more soap. Any way, she was there Saturday as well and was not happy to see us there too. The first time I waved and said hello she just tuned around and didn't say anything. There was only one vendor seperating us. Oh well, I'm not going anywhere. I was told she only does this market in the summer, so I'm going to wait her out and hope that because her sells are down she decides it's not worth it. I'm also going to revamp my table to make it look better too, and maybe do some HP soaps in more sample sizes.
Oh, I also have a little funny. I have this one customer who just loves the buttermilk & grits bars. I had some set aside for her friday. She comes up and says there's another soaper and when she went up to her she was like, "You're not my soap lady!" LOL, I'm some bodies soap lady! That really made me feel good.
I also lost one of our chicks Saturday night. We think something must have gotten him, but I'm not sure how. So I put a big pile of cat food out and sat with the back door opened and waited. I shot 1 possum and 1 raccon, though a second raccon got away because I either missed or didn't get a very good shot and only grazed it. This was the first time I've ever shot anything but cans. I feel bad about it, but I will protect my chickens. Hubby seemed impressed though. He didn't think I had it in me to kill them, but I love my chickies too much. The worst thing was I had to shoot the raccon twice to put him out of his misery, he was able to run about 10 yards before he dropped. That was hard because he was looking at me. But it had to be done. Hubby burried them for me.
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NP and hubby are still working on their house according to FB.
The FM didn't go to bad. I made a $108.35. The season fee was a $150 so I'm close to that amount. Hopefully I will do better next week. I think since it was the first day not as many people showed up because they didn't know it had started. My DH had to work over so he wasn't able to come with me. My SIL came and helped me and my best friend of like 11 years came out with her daughter. It went pretty good. I forgot my caera and had to use my SIL's phone but I have to wait for her DH to take off the pics because she doesn't know how.
That's a great first day and I know that your sales will grow as you develop return clients and their friends. Soaps make fabulous gifts and I'm certain that some of those recipients will become repeat customers as well. Do you go again next week?
