Antique Booths

Wow! I cannot believe I am just now finding photo inspirations for craft booths this way. I know that there are countless antique malls throughout the U.S. and they are filled with great ways to display your crafty goodness!! I am just focusing on one seller today, My So-Called Junky Life. She seems to keep loads of photos of her improvements, and has a designers touch! She uses mostly shabby-chic decor, and since most of her items are white or very light, she can actually put a lot more in the booth than a lot of different-colored items. The whites take up a lot less visual space than a lot of other colors. See for yourself...





from My So-Called Junky Life

The Market at Trustees Garden

Check this out, it looks like a cool event, and their website is nice!!
SEE THEM HERE.

A New Selling Site called Folksy: Cast, solder, cut, knit, mould, sculpt, buy, sell, go!

I found this new shop for UK sellers on someone's blog. Folksy is set up very similarly to Etsy, and has a cool section on making, a place where sellers show instructions of the items they make. This feature and several others make Folksy seem more community oriented, rather than just a place to buy/sell items.

The Floksy BLOG is really great though. I recommend checking it out! They have lots of fun videos embedded in their site which I had some difficulty transferring for you all into this site.

I believe at this time, only UK sellers are allowed for soem reason, maybe currency issues??? But I hope in the near future they will be able to cater to US sellers. Maybe with the help and support of people like you and me, that will soon be possible!

Post Numero 100! Green Gift Bazaar in Alton

This person found me through the Strange Folk Website, which so kindly displays the info about all of its participants...
Anyhoo, here is her message:
I put on the Sierra Club’s (6th Annual) Green Gift Bazaar, where we try to make Black Friday, Green Friday!

Details:
• This year’s event will be on Friday, November 28th from 7am-6pm at 220 Alton Square Mall
• You may also vend on Saturday, November 29th from 10am-2pm with no additional fee. Please mark this on your registration form.
• The fee is $20 and includes one 8’-10’ table and one chair. If you need more chairs, please bring them.
• A reduced fee of $15 is offered only to vendors that will help set up window decorations two weeks ahead of time; a plus is that your wares will be viewed by anyone visiting the mall prior to that day. Great adverstising!
• 220 Alton Square Mall (the old St. Anthony’s Wellness Center location). it has two large store windows we can display some vendors’ items in and posters about the date/time. it also has a back entry for easy vendor set-up and doors lock at night so we can set up on Wednesday evening.

Let me know if you are interested!
Christine Favilla
Three Rivers Project Coordinator
Piasa Palisades Group of the Sierra Club
223 Market Street
Alton, IL. 62002
Phone: 618.462.6802
Fax: 618.462.0282
cfavilla10@sbcglobal.net
THEIR WEBSITE HERE.

My Very Own Trunk Show at the Neighborhood Co-Op

I am blessed to have the lovely opportunity to show off my goods in front of the Neighborhood Co-Op in the Murdale Shopping Center this Saturday (August 16, 2008). I will have a lot of new and wonderful items to show everyone, so I hope it turns out well! See lots of my goodies inside and out this Saturday from 10-2ish...... in the Murdale Shopping Center, off I-13 as you come from Murphysboro, IL. Hope to see you there :)

Murdale Shopping Center
1815 W Main St, Carbondale, IL 62901
(618) 529-3533

www.neighborhood.coop