RR, your stuff is beautiful! Sounds like a fun day at the sales. I like chatting with customers, and miss that with being in malls. Just a couple random thoughts from our years of street antique shows - table skirting or full length cloths are very helpful. Ups the professional look, covers the boxes of stuff you stash under them. large plain sheets can help with this, since actual skirting is time-consuming. Your crate idea as backdrop is great! Since most of your stuff, naturally, is similar in height, it's good to figure out ways to elevate items and create a look that's not just a table full of dishes, if that makes sense. What draws you into a booth or stall? Ask your friends what draws them in. Play around with display ideas - always thinking about wind, which can be a huge issues with breakable stuff! Try grouping by color, or type - how does that look to you? Also - some pots of flowers, herbs, succulents setting in some of your containers will add some pop. You can sell them with the planter at a higher price, or you can just say that the plants are display only and move them from dish to pot as stuff sells. Anyway, just some thoughts that may, or may not, work for you :) have fun selling! You can't keep creating if you don't move some inventory, right?
IL - love the pots you have. And love the begonia. I bought a couple this spring to plant outside and ended up keeping them in. Love them! Don't know if I can get them to winter over, I only have one good window and in the fall my ferns come back in to reside there, so I don't know.... and in December, they all get moved to the basement under light so the tree can come in for the holidays. It doesn't help that all house plants have to be inaccessible to our salad-loving cats. >:(
