Hi friends!
Yesterday I had my own booth at the TrendMafia designer market in Berlin-Wedding. Flo came there with me and helped me all day, and in the beginning I was very nervous. Unfortunately, there weren’t many visitors (the vendor who had a booth next to me and has been selling her stuff at this market for many month told me that she usually sells about 60 to 70 items, but yesterday she has only sold about 15) and of the people who visited the market, there weren’t many who belonged to my target group. As a result of an endless day, I only sold 4 items (a dribble bib, two hairbows and a brooch) plus 2 items to my relatives. :)
In the afternoon, I saw an old woman pointing to my necklaces and heard her saying, “You can get such ones at Woolworth for only 1€!” I couldn’t believe what I’ve heard and I just said to her, “Thank you so much, I made these”, with a friendly smile and then she was embarassed. ;P
From a financial point of view, it was of course not worth the effort (I sold items for 27€ and the rent for the booth was about 40€), but it was a great experience having my own booth, I got some compliments for my items, got a lot of useful advice from other vondors and some people picked up my business cards. :) I already had 64 visitors in my shop today, more than three times more as usual and it’s scarcely afternoon. :) All in all, I don’t regret having gone there, although I didn’t sell much, but I must admit that I had hoped for more. :) The best thing was that some family members and lovely friends came to visit me, kept company with us and encouraged me. :)
Here are some photos we took yesterday, I hope you like my colorful booth. :)