Countdown: Folk Festival
The Regina Folk Festival is only ten days away!
This gives me mixed feelings. My second, and last festival of the year. Last year I sold five festivals, and I'm sad that I've missed out, and will be missing out on those other three this year. Ness Creek is always a good time, and I didn't even get a chance to swing by and hang out, let alone set up shop. The Lumsden Duck Derby was new to us last year, and though we were chased into a cold community hall basement by the rain, we decided to try it again this year only to be foiled by the Nine Inch Nails concert in LA. The Craik Field Festival last year was a windy catastrophe, but I haven't seen or heard anything about one for this September.
My Partner in Crime and I were cleaned out and I were cleaned out of inventory after the Street Fair in May. And although we have had plenty of time to make new stock, we really haven't seemed to find it. She was busy getting married, and I was busy moving. She's been busy camping, and I've been busy working (Why did I take a second part time job on weekend mornings?)
Last year, after the Ness Creek Festival when I found myself cleaned out, I spent a solid three days sewing after I got back from the Pemberton Music Festival. I managed to produce enough stock for the rest of the summer, and again I'm faced with the same problem.
I'm in a situation also though, where I want to try something new. I love the purses I've been making. I adore the tie up hippie shirts made from lightweight colorful cotton. The PMS cards have so far been a bust, although I still have hopes. I've been making corsets. Strapless corsets which can be tied up in the front or the back, and ones with vest-style straps, some of which can be reversed, and some which just tie up in the front.
I think these are awesome, and I wear at least one a week myself, not just for promotion, but because I think they look dead sexy, and they're surprisingly comfortable, considering they're lined with steel boning. I often get comments. I often get stares. I often wonder how many of them will sell, or if they will turn out to be a complete bust. (pardon the pun) Is it worth it to devote much of my few remaining days to pump out a bunch of these bad-boys if nobody ends up buying them?
So far I've got fourteen purses, ten hippie shirts, six skirts, and four of each style of these corset shits. Ideally, I would like to double my stock, in case sales continue in much the same light as they did this past May.
The bonus is, I also have some pretty deadly models that I'm planning on taking out a few days before the festival, so that anything that doesn't sell then, I can throw onto my website for all y'all to peek at.

