. The craft show season is over for us for this year. Next week I will more than likely start getting ready for next season. This year the craft show season for us was just OK, not great but OK. At all the shows we did this year the major issue was folks just are not buying in this area. Now with that said, we still averaged over $200 a show which is OK for us, again not great but OK. This craft show season did make a nice Christmas for our family. We do the Holiday Craft circuit in this area solely to pay for the expense of Christmas and my kids and wife did have a nice Christmas. For those that read my blog and are not family I have 2 beautiful daughters, a great son in law and a beautiful wife of 31 wonderful (most of the time) years.
I take partial responsibility for the sales being low. I did not have enough of the right stuff cut. I knew this going into the shows and still chose to do nothing about it. OK this is a change I am making for next year. Another change I am hopefully making for next year is my wife will be sharing some of the cutting. I just set up a scroll saw with her name in it and I am trying to get her involved in the cutting also. I have a feeling there will be some items that she is much better at than I am.
The pictures above are: 1. My baby and I all dressed up to go Stocking stuffer shopping the week before Christmas. This has been an annual tradition where we get all dressed up and go out and tackle the malls and shopping centers just looking for that special stocking stuff for the family. Our travels took us to Albany New York this year, I prefer to go places where probably will not run into anyone from work for obvious reasons.
The next picture is me opening up a Christmas present, a new book for woodworking, how did they know that is what I wanted?
The last picture is the family on Christmas morning at approximately 5:00am. If they look this good at this time imagine how nice they all look at a reasonable hour.
Well only a few days left in this year. I am finding that the older we get the faster time flies by. I am looking forward to posting more pictures and letting everyone know how things are going here for the next year.
Happy New Year to one and all.
