On November 1st This Charming Candy participated in its first craft show – I Heart Rummage. This monthly indie show is held in the Chop Suey nightclub in Capitol Hill, a great little music venue with two rooms. In fact, I noticed a poster on the window behind me for this Saturday’s Bishop Allen / Throw Me The Statue show and it reminded me we need to get tickets for that…
Anyway! This Charming Candy was assigned to the better-lit lounge area along with about a dozen other vendors. I had a great time meeting other local crafters that we’ve previously only met online (or hadn’t yet met at all). And we’re thrilled to have gotten our candy into the public eye and thrilled with the sales we made. Thank you Seattle!
Our good friend and official photographer Kevin Keeker dropped by to take a few photos (click the pictures to see bigger versions):
The photo above faces into the lounge room (the mainstage area is directly behind Kevin from this vantage point). The room looks really pretty. Love the doors. Those are colored flyers for upcoming shows taped to the windows in the back. If you squint, you can maybe see me in the center of the photo.
The day before the show, I went to Goodwill looking for stuff to use for the table display. Goodwill rocks! I got several nifty chrome and wire pieces including two round wire baskets (for displaying our Fruit Basket flavors) and a chrome spice rack and glass spice jars (for displaying our Spice Rack flavors). I also got a taller chrome, um, thingy that had little arms to hang the lollipop bags from.
<—Fruit Basket
<—Spice Rack
<—chrome thingy
The photo below shows me sitting at our table – the hanging bags and spice rack are on the right side of the photo, and the wire baskets are on the left side. A little wire easel holds up our menu/price list behind the baskets.
What do you think? OK for a first draft of our display? I think it’s kind of hard to tell what the chrome spice rack is, with the bags of lollipops laid on its shelves. But I was relieved that we didn’t look out of place with respect to the other vendors’ setups. I don’t think anyone would have called us out as the amateur first-timers we were :-)
(Oh, and I got some blue and brown armwarmers from the crafter next to me – ScaryWhiteGirl – and I love them!)
Our space at I Heart Indie Holidays on Nov 29th will be bigger. I’m keeping an eye out for more ways to showcase our candy. Suggestions are welcome!
photos by Kevin Keeker
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