2009 has been a busy year long effort to build up my Holiday Bazaar Inventory. My partner in crime (Pam) & I went out on a limb and signed up for a booth at the Trailing of The Sheep Festival in Hailey. We thought this would be a great testing ground for our wool felted hats & bags. We left Boise on Friday afternoon & spent the night with my BFF Sally in Gooding. Her son was playing in the High School Football game that night so we donned our newly hand knit "Hoodies" and headed out to a fun-filled, bitter cold night at the game. We looked just like three "grandma's" nestled together trying to steal the heat from each other. What a HOOT !
When we got home we settled in for hot chocolate & a half night marathon of "Catch up on the latest gossip"session. I think I ended up with 3 hrs sleep!
By 6:30 A.M. we were on the road headed to Hailey.
Talk about COLD ! ! ! By the time we got our booth set up, I began to wonder if I had any feet left! I could have sworn they had frozen themselves off after the first half hr of tramping in the frosty grass to get set up. But by noon the sun was shining & it turned out to be a fabulous day.
It surely did not take long to test our wool hats in this market place. Our prices were extremely competitive and the choices were endless. At any given time we had at least 10-12 shoppers in our booth. The products we had labored over for the last 9 months were flying out the door.
After giggling ourselves silly over the profits we had made a sudden panic set in! We had 9 more shows to do and we have minimal inventory! The we would giggle again about our success and in the next breath panic strikes again! ! So very funny when you look back on it.
We will definitely be back next year!