A local homeschool group puts together a craft fair every fall. Anyone can sell at it, but it's particularly a chance for kids to experience a bit of entrepreneurship -- developing a product, organizing, pricing, advertising.
Annabeth and I decided to purchase a space to sell doll clothes, having discovered people would actually pay money for things we make.
We made sure we had a lot of items at a lot of price points. It was sort of crazy here in the weeks leading up to the craft fair, as a matter of fact, as we made clothes and shoes, figured out pricing, rehearsed efficiently setup of our display. We also signed up with Pixie Faire to sell items made with their patterns -- an easy process, but someone actually did ask if we had permission to sell items using these patterns, so hooray for being official.
Oddly enough, someone also asked if the clothing would actually fit the dolls. We had, of course, tried each item on a doll at home as soon as we finished making it. More to the point, though, we had 6 dolls standing or sitting at our booth wearing various outfits; and during the course of the day Annabeth had small girls help her decide on new outfits and participate in re-dressing the dolls.
The oven mitts were popular. We should've made a bunch to sell as Christmas ornaments. Pattern from Lee & Pearl.
Annabeth wants to continue selling the overstock plus some new items. The biggest barrier is letting people know what we have. Attend more craft fairs? Use social media? She's been working on photographing various outfits.
She has strong opinions on what what constitutes good doll photography.
I think she's starting to get the hang of it.
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