[Nfb-krafters-korner] Selling at craft markets

[Lindy van der Merwe]

Hi there,
To those who sell at craft markets, I was wondering about a few things.
1 Do any of you manage a stall or a table on your own, or do you usually 
have someone there to help?
2 If you do it on your own, how do you answer the questions: how much is 
this? or I'd like to take this ... or Do you have change for this?
3 How do you handle sorting and exchanging paper money?
I had my first experience with selling at a stall last Saturday and these 
were some of the aspects I had to deal with.
I don't think it is immediately obvious that I am blind, which did make for 
some awkward situations, I thought.
Perhaps there may be some obvious answers to some of these questions, or 
perhaps I just need some practice with being more comfortable in dealing 
with strangers in that type of setting?
I know it will be most helpful to have prices on either the products or on 
the containers they reside in, but it just felt like people related to me 
using gestures a lot of the time, which obviously made communication 
somewhat difficult and even though I wanted to respond in a confident 
manner, I found it quite challenging at times.
Any ideas and thoughts would be much appreciated.
Lindy


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Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Looking for volunteers


>I am looking for teachers to teach the classes.  Do you know or are  you
> interested in teaching any of these suggested classes?  I need  volunteers 
> to
> teach.
>
> Heads up we hopefully will be having an email class with an Origami 
> project
> in  the near future.    I will do a soap class and a sewing  class, but I
> am busy with kicking off my new craft business.   I am  not sure if I can
> fit classes in that I will teach between now and middle of  July.  I have 
> 4
> holidays between now and then to fill orders.   Hopefully I am putting St.
> Patty's Day Wild Irish Roses to bed maybe by  tomorrow.  I have 100 in 
> reserve
> for my Irish Bar that is selling soo many  of them.  I spent the last 2 
> days
> working on Easter ones to get a head  start.  I will know on Wednesday if
> they need any more St. Patty's Day  ones.
>
> We need to wait for the Latch Hook class to be finished before we start a
> new email class.  I want to only do one at a time email class for now,
> until we work any problems out.
>
> So think about what you can teach, host a chat night  topic.    I will be
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