Call for Artists, Making Money at Juried Art Fairs, Craft Shows and Festivals
What have you left behind?
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Permalink Reply by Ruth Finkenbiner on -
We left the credit card machine at home charging on our first show of the year this year!! LOL, we hadn't done a show for 3 months, we each thought the other one had packed it. Thank goodness for a friend who had some extra "old fashioned" credit card forms, we made it through the day without one of us having to make a 2 hour round trip drive.
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Permalink Reply by Bob Chapman on
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The change drawer. Fortunately, we were within 20 miles of the house when we remembered.
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Permalink Reply by Robert M. Wallis on -
Two tubs of framed prints one time, credit card machine another time. My brain at least once or twice. All the curtain hooks for hanging frames one time.
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Permalink Reply by S. Michelle Babcock on -
I tend to leave my brain at the show and then I have to wait for it to arrive back home about two days later.
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Permalink Reply by Annette Piper on -
ROFL ^^
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Permalink Reply by Barry Bernstein on -
One time I left the roof to my display home. I had a friend box it up and send it to me. Another time, on the way to Florida, I left half my pedestals. I bought cheap 3 legged round tables and some material that I draped over them. Ironically, it was my best Coconut Grove ever.
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Permalink Reply by Linnea Lahlum on -
My first show of the year a couple of years back, my chair. It was a long weekend standing. I have a checklist posted inside the garage door that I check when loading, but still overlooked it.
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Permalink Reply by steve appel on -
well i have the top of the list items. i did a one day show in carlsbad ca and i left one of my boxes filled with my merchandise at the show. got a call the next day saying that a policeman picked up the box and left it with his wife at a local bank. Drove back down to Carlsbad a day later to get my merchandise and asked the wife what the husband did on his off hours. I left a fishing boat with her and thanked her. the drive was only two hours from where i lived. never did that again in 20 years of being in this business.
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Permalink Reply by Annette Piper on
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Half my display equipment ... I made do with what I had. And another time half my tablecloths .. not pretty, but once again I made do. Occasionally I've forgotten something small eg. a hammer or screwdriver, and once, half my tools in my portable tool case for on the spot changes. I almost lived to regret that last one but managed to get out of it by delivering the item to the customer the following day - a two hour round trip.
So glad to see I'm in good company although I really hope I don't forget something really big one day!!
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Permalink Reply by Diana Ferguson on -
Where to start. First, I frequently seem to forget my pliers, which I always like to have at a show in order to change out earrings findings, etc. I remember forgetting our Lightdome canopy top one time - left it in the garage. Fortunately, it wasn't a distance show and we were able to go back and get it. Another time, I left my laptop connect card in a hotel room in Avon, Colorado. We were about an hour away when I remembered. Again, salvageable. On a [somewhat] recent road trip, I left my purse at a Perkins in Tulsa -- unfortunately, I didn't realize this until we were 4 hours away. They had found the purse and were holding it for me when I called. After proper identification procedures,they were super kind to mail it to me in Arizona via Priority Mail, at no charge.
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Permalink Reply by S. Michelle Babcock on
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One of the reasons I started this discussion was for my husband. He was quite angry at himself this time and was worried that he is loosing his mind. I just don't want him to loose his sense of humor. Or leave it behind.
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Permalink Reply by Amy Furgiuele on -
Lordy... if he thinks a bunch of artists are going to have their poop in a group 100% of the time, he is CRAZY! Someone, somewhere is forgetting something! It's like death and taxes... and sometimes can be as costly! Here's a friendly hug to your helper, then! Wish I had a consistent one to forget things for me! ;o)
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