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Best word: Disappointing.  Not sure what went wrong: set-up? Lack of stock? Lack of interest? Bad economy? Lack of sales enthusiasm (I wasn’t feeling the best)?  Don’t really have an obvious answer–probably a combination of all-of-the-above.
The butterflies actually outsold the animal puzzles.  I did have several “I don’t have that puzzle right now” issues, but [...]

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We’re back from the Canton Flea Market and the Swamp Dog agility show.  Canton was so-so; we had one space crammed between two large folks with multiple spaces.  It’s hard to be seen, or get folks to come in.  That hurt sales a lot.  The butterflies did well; I sold a good many of the [...]

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Today was rather slow–only 4 sales.   However, a couple of those were rather large, so we’re not doing that bad.  I kept thinking it was Saturday, but it’s only Friday–Many folks are working instead of running their dogs, so maybe tomorrow will be better.  Still, if the sales are few and large, we can’t complain [...]

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For the show, it’s actually Day #3…we skipped the first two days.
This year it should really be called the “Hot Tea Classic”.  90 degrees, no fans, no breeze.  At least it was indoors so no direct sun.  I felt sorry for the poodles next to us, with their heavy coats.
We were in the “Memorial Building”, [...]

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I spent a good bit of the day cutting out dogs for this weekend.  This was a “pop” show, with only 2 weeks notice.  I was able to knock out 12 dogs, including 5 Porties.  In addition to yesterday’s dogs, that makes 17.  I was planning on at least 15, but I started “killing” dogs–the [...]

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Got the results analyzed for the dog show, and surprise! The biggest seller was dog animal puzzles. 85% of revenue was from animal puzzles, all but two being dogs. We did sell some dog jewelry and and a dog box as well.
We’re really down on the dog box inventory.  I need to just sit [...]

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Didn’t really do much today. We sold a couple of bookmarks and took a couple of orders, but that was about it.  Sundays aren’t the best for the dog shows, as folks are tired and just want to go home after their dogs are through.  I’m thinking on future shows we may just cut out [...]

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Not as much income today, but we got several dog orders. This has definetly been a good show for us. We’ve been invited to a show down in Paducah, KY in October.  This is supposed to be a decent sized show and it is in the Christmas season.  It’s also an area we haven’t been [...]

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Can’t complain–we got mobbed in the morning, and Jenny and I were trying to carry on multiple conversations at once. Sold quite a bit as well .  Some observations:

The new Border Collie sold early, so I guess there’s at least a couple of folks who like him.  I’ll make a couple more and see [...]

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Here’s a couple of pictures from the BARL show yesterday.  The first is the table I used for the set-up.  They just used the existing picnic tables in the shelter.  I forgot to throw in the tableclothes, but things worked out anyway.
As you can see I had the butterfly magnets and bookmarks at one end, [...]

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