Scroll Saw Blog

Appearances can be deceiving.  I didn’t really thing the animal puzzles did that well, but they ended up making 69% of the revenue.  Several of the puzzles were higher priced ones, and I did end up selling close to the number of previous shows with similar revenue. Butterflies were way down, only 9% of revenue.  [...]

[Read more →]

Looks like I’ve got some sort of internet here.  Not the best, but better than nothing.
I’ve got the tables set out, and the animal puzzle crates stacked.  Since it’s in a big tent during a cool night (i.e., condensation on the tent causing everything inside to get moist) I didn’t put anything out in the [...]

[Read more →]

… for the Pumpkin Festival.  I haven’t been at my best lately, probably due to the schedule (If it’s monday, it must be Mississippi…or is it Ohio? maybe Colorado? not yet, anyway ).  I’ve cut out around 300 more bookmarks, which should fill out the new display well.
Right now I’m replacing the 12″ sanding [...]

[Read more →]

Today I’m in recovery mode.  The Minges Pumpkin Festival was a profitable, if tiring, show, and I’m still dragging a little.  There were very few breaks in the crowd, so I was on my feet pretty much from the start to the end–you can’t sit down and sell very well. There were several comments on [...]

[Read more →]

One of the folks that dropped by the booth this weekend mentioned they had found this site by searching for “Minges Pumpkin Festival”–they were looking for some info.  Evidently right now “Google is my friend” and is ranking this site rather high in those type of searches. Unfortunately for her, she didn’t find what she [...]

[Read more →]

Quick post on the show, with more details later:
The day was a bit slower than Saturday; I did about half as many sales.  Of course, I lost out a lot because of out-of-stock dogs (can you say “Boxer”?).   This was the best revenue show this year, so I can’t complain.  I went ahead and signed [...]

[Read more →]

a.k.a. “Can’t complain”. Although I don’t have any way to compare it (this is my first time here), I think I’m doing alright. Booth rental, expenses are made, along with a nice profit so far. Tomorrow can’t be as good, just because I’m sold out of several puzzles. I could have made another [...]

[Read more →]

Today Jenny and I went down to Harrison (near Cincinnati) to set-up for the Minges Pumpkin Festival.  This is a rather expensive show, around $200, but is supposed to be very good.  This will also be my first show in the Cincinnati area, so we’ll see if they’re receptive to my work.
The booth is inside [...]

[Read more →]

Just a quick post tonight: Been getting things cut so I’ll have *something* to sell this weekend.  Tomorrow we pack and set up the booth; Saturday & Sunday I’ll be trying to sell stuff .

[Read more →]

Since I did this as part of the scrollsaw club,  the results are more fuzzy.  It seemed that animal puzzles went well at this show as in previous ones.  Scrollsaw jewelry didn’t do as well as in the past–don’t know why, as the quality of it is excellent. I didn’t really find out what other [...]

[Read more →]