from Art-a-whirl - the attention getting display of a local arts organization
If I had to pick one single aspect of my business that I still need to master, it would be craft show display. I’m getting better at it – it’s definitely much prettier, I know to find ways to use lots of light, pale colors and I can get attention now.
But there are still lots of kinks. I haven’t found the perfect combination of perfume tester to client, and I can’t always find an item while a prospective client still has interest in buying it. And I have to spend an inordinate amount of time futzing with my display after an interested person visits my booth.
Even tablecloths are an item of frustration and debate – and since they’re underneath all sorts of breakable stuff, once it’s down, if it turns out I picked the wrong color that day I could easily drive myself to madness trying to compensate.
Until I get these kinks worked out, I’m shopping around other people’s display ideas. While I wouldn’t outright steal (most of) them, I am inspired and amused by the clever ways people can reuse random items to catch attention. Like this image here with the Sumo wrestlers. I saw these little guys at the local surplus store, and it never even occurred to me to use them the way this local arts organization did.
So for now I’m eyeballing craft display pictures and craft shows, as well as combing through every storage store known to North America. I shall overcome – I shall organize!
LOL – I blogged about this subject too, and yes, tablecloths are so hard to deal with. I have every size table known to man; short of sewing matching cloths myself, I can’t get tablecloths in every size.
I just blew a wad on jewelry displays as well and have been “doctoring up” my existing ones. They’ll be quite interesting.