CHUN Capitol Hill People's Fair
Denver, Colorado

Don’t forget to to visit CHUN Capitol Hill People's Fair in Denver, Colorado June 1 & 2, 2013.

Arts fair and crafts festival vendors contact Nicole Anderson at 303-830-1651 to reserve your booth now. Remember to tell her thank you for listing this juried art and craft show with The Extravaganza Craft News.

Want more information on this and other art and craft fairs in Colorado each month subscribe to The Extravaganza Craft News at www.

Riverton Community Christmas Craft Fair
Riverton, Wyoming

Boardwalk Arts and Craft Festival
Dillon Montana

Blackberry Arts Festival
Coos Bay, Oregon

Tigard Festival of Balloons
Tigard, Oregon

Under the Big Sky Arts & Crafts Festival
Missoula, Montana

Craft Show Booth Displays
Retail Success Secrets Revealed

Your art festival and craft show booth display is your brick and mortar retail store. Don't guess at art show booth displays hoping to increase sales. Don't hire professional retail designers to create show booths that sell crafts.

Now learn from professionals trained in displaying crafts for sale. Every vendor can have professional art and craft festival booths that sell handmade crafts and increase profits since retail layout secrets are available online and in books.

Power For Craft Booths
With No Electricity

Should I pay show promoters for power for craft show booths?

Do you need power in your art show booth? Need cash registers, electronic displays, laptops, or cell phones, extra lighting to highlight handmade crafts or handcrafted jewelry, a fan or heater?

Extra lighting increases sales by attracting the eye to craft show booths and allowing craft buyers to see quality and details of your craftsmanship.

The Big One Art & Craft Fair -Fargo ND

Visit The Big One Art and Craft Fair in Fargo, North Dakota happening Oct. 19 & 20, 2013.

Arts and crafts festival vendors contact Stacy and Lisa Frank at 701-837-6059 to reserve your booth now. Please thank them for listing this show with The Extravaganza Craft News.

Want more information on this and other art and craft fairs in North Dakota each month subscribe to The Extravaganza Craft News at 

The Minot Big One Art & Craft Fair
Minot, North Dakota

Visit The Minot Big One Art & Craft Fair in Minot, ND happening Nov. 1 & 2, 2013.

Arts and crafts festival vendors contact Stacy & Lisa Frank at 701-837-6059 to reserve your booth now.  Please thank them for listing their art and craft fair with The Extravaganza Craft News.

Want more information on this and other art and craft fairs in North Dakota each month subscribe to The Extravaganza Craft News at 

It's hard to find time to make handmade crafts for a craft show booth. It's even harder to find time to market and sell crafts. How do you find time to make and sell crafts?

Make Time for Crafts by Saving Time

One way to make time for crafts is to save time doing the things you have to do every day. A time saving trick I learned a long time ago was to put dinner in the crockpot (a.k.a. slow cooker) as I was making breakfast in the morning.

I then cleaned up all the dishes from preparing both meals.

Wholesale Craft Show Do’s and Don’ts – Tips for Artists

This is a companion piece to my article, “Fine Craft Wholesale Shows: A Review of the Philadelphia Buyer’s Market Visiting Artists Program,” also on this site.

In June, 2006 I attended the Philadelphia Buyer’s Market of American Craft Visiting Artists Program. The presenters offered lots of wisdom and nuts-and-bolts tips on wholesaling for artists just starting out in the wholesale market.

Packaging Your Craft Show Products

Need ideas for packaging crafts at craft fairs?

Packaging crafts has always been a simple concept to me it never occurred to me to share. This wonderful post inspired me to share this packaging idea. Most scrapbookers and rubber stampers probably use this concept already. How many of you have thought to use it to package your handcrafted arts and crafts for sale?

Places to Sell Handmade Arts and Crafts Online and Off

Where do you sell your hand-crafted arts and crafts?

Do you sell crafts online at places like Etsy, Artfire, Ebay or have your own website?

Do you sell your crafts at art and crafts shows, fairs, festivals, bazaars, boutiques? Do you license your art to companies or sell it in specialty shops like gift stores?

Places to sell your works of art include:

• art fairs, festivals, craft shows, bazaars and boutiques, flea markets (not a good choice for higher priced crafts), antique markets
• local restaurant and hotel lobbies
• local gas stations
• small hometown grocery stores
• libraries
• gift shops, visitors centers, and other tourism sites
• specialty stores including Bridal shops, flower shops, salons
• Online places like Etsy, Artfire and more.

I was going through some old information I had gathered for my business when I found this article on how doing arts and crafts makes people healthier.  In this time of economic uncertainty and worry we could all use better health.

Other ways that arts and crafts make these times better for us all. They give us a job and income that only we control (job security). They also give our local economy a boost as the more money we make selling arts and crafts the more money our city, county, and state will have circulating in it.

Don’t forget to to visit the Ridgway Arts & Crafts Rendezvous in Ridgway CO this Aug. 11 & 12, 2012.

Arts and crafts festival vendors contact Kentee Pasek at 970-318-0056 to reserve your booth now.  Remember to tell her thank you for listing her show with The Extravaganza Craft News.

Want more information on this and other art and craft fairs in Colorado each month subscribe to The Extravaganza Craft News at www.

What does Real Estate have to do with selling arts and crafts?

The way I see it your art or craft show booth is kind of like trying to sell a house. If you try to sell an empty house people can’t see in their minds what the house will look like when it’s all finished, painted, furnished, and decorated. You will also have a hard time trying to sell a house that is full of clutter, people can only imagine that the rest of the house hasn’t been taken care of well. They will see that the house will be too much work and cost too much money.

Difference Between Creating Interest in Your Arts and Crafts
and Getting People To Buy Your Crafts

To have a successful full time business selling arts and crafts (defined as making enough income to support yourself or your family without having a part time job) two things must happen.

1. There must be enough people interested in buying your arts and crafts.
2. You must be able to persuade people interested in your art to buy.

“Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work
toward them everyday, will do more to guarantee your success than any
other single factor.”
~Brian Tracy

How do you know if your craft show booth is successful if you haven’t defined what success means to you?

Does success mean money to you, if yes how much money? Does success mean time to spend with your family, how much time? Does it mean working fewer days and hours a week, how many hours a week is success to you? Does success mean working from a constant vacation-where, working from home, quitting your other job, or having a really great car -what kind? Does success mean talking to 100 people and getting the contact information for 25 so you can follow up with them?

Write down your goals for your handcrafted art and craft business.

Reasons Art Festival Customer Won’t Buy

Customers won’t buy art from you if:

• They don’t know where to find your handmade craft.
• They aren’t prepared to buy now. For instance they weren’t expecting to see a handcrafted product they wanted so they don’t have money right now.
• They don’t know what you are selling.
• You aren’t selling what they want.
• Your handcrafted art is hard to get, the wrong price or poor quality.

Rocky Mountain Arts & Crafts Festival

Don’t forget to to visit Rocky Mountain Arts & Crafts Festival in Billings, Montana this Mar. 10 & 11, 2012.

Handcrafted arts and crafts festival vendors contact Doug at 406-696-6585 to reserve your show booth now. Remember to tell him thank you for listing his show with The Extravaganza Craft News.

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How to Sell Crafts Online

Artists and crafters are learning to succeed at your hobby as a business you need to market your crafts well.

Marketing involves engaging your customers in a relationship building trust. The most cost efficient way is to use the resources the internet provides us. For instance online craft stores, web sites, e-mail marketing, and more. Click here to read Reasons to Stay In Touch With Art Fair Customers.