Yes, we know. It’s been a while since our last post. It has been sitting on top of the to-do list for many weeks now. But we were waiting for some good news and once we got it we realized we needed to get ready for it. Ensue panic attack!
You see we were selected to be a vendor at Lucketts Winter Market on November 3, 4 & 5 in Lucketts, VA. We are very excited about it (we’ve been fans of Lucketts for many years now) and also a bit (i.e. super) anxious. This will be the first time that Camino+Collective Home ventures out into public. Yikes! We are feeling the pressure to really make a positive impression on the market — meaning you!
Keep in mind, we have never run this sort of business before, and while certain things seem like common sense there are also a lot of details to consider. The one thing we know we don’t want to do is fail at our first market. We are figuring out what items to take, preparing our items (cleaning, polishing, painting), figuring out how we are going to get them all there, determining a system of how to track all of our items, how to make our booth look welcoming and attractive, what payments to accept, and the list goes on and on and on.
Honestly, the funniest part was when we first got the tent. We did a trial run to see how to put it up and that in and of itself was so hilarious we hardly had the energy to actually get the darn thing up. Once we got it up, we realized that it was going to take some effort to make it look less like an ugly white tent and more like a pretty, albeit tiny shop. It’s a lot of effort. Not to mention husbands and families grousing about the fact that we are pretty much gone for three whole weekend days.
Despite all of our best efforts, there we will be. Hopefully, busy meeting and greeting – and selling! I hope that we get to see some of your friendly faces there.
Again – it’s the Lucketts Winter Market on November 3-4-5 in Lucketts, VA – they will have food/drink trucks and their beautiful Design House is all decked out for the holidays as well.