Thanksgiving in Canada is around the Corner.
@PainsOnSlate (21854)
Canada
September 28, 2018 9:22am CST
The actual day is October 8 this year.
I have always participated on the Thanksgiving Weekend Craft Show in Vineland, Ontario. I set up my tent in a friend's yard and there are two large shows on both sides of me – one to my right and the other behind the school across the street from me. There is also a huge show up the mountain at Balls Falls.
My sales in the store in Niagara On The Lake is taking all my paint time and I'm loving the money earned in that store. I also sell wine signs to a few local wineries.
I don't need the weekend craft show anymore. That's a good thing. Outdoors shows is always an iffy because we are in mother nature's hand, and if she wants to rain or snow on us she does just that...
In the past I have used my scrap slate and made small funny or sweet signs and sold them for $5. They sell well but I have a few hundred in the basement that I want to get rid of so I am selling them for $1.
I hope a lot of them are sold next weekend and the leftovers I will donate to the charities shops in my area. It really will be my last show. Along with the $1 small slates I will have some wine signs and some of the bigger ones that I sell in my favorite store.
Looking forward to having my children home and helping me at the Thanksgiving show.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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@Marilynda1225 (79722)
• United States
28 Sep 18
Hope your $1 slates sell well and I can't believe we're already talking about Thanksgiving. My daughter and I were talking about Thanksgiving the other day and we don't celebrate until late November. All the holidays will be here before we know it
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
28 Sep 18
Yup, Canada gets it over before its too cold, although we have had snow on Thanksgiving weekend a few times. And thanks, I hope the $1 slate sells too...
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@Marilynda1225 (79722)
• United States
28 Sep 18
@PainsOnSlate I hope you don't get snow for this Thanksgiving
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
28 Sep 18
Hopefully those dollar signs will move for you.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
28 Sep 18
Thank you, I know they will sell but you never know how much you will make until its over.
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@Juliaacv (48422)
• Canada
30 Sep 18
@PainsOnSlate I'm afraid that we won't be heading that way next weekend. We made plans today, and we're going up to Port Franks to our daughter-in-law's mother's place. Its so nice and relaxing on Lake Huron.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
29 Sep 18
I look forward to meet you and if you can come to the show just find me and say hello...
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
30 Sep 18
@Juliaacv Lake Huron is a lot more interesting than a craft show. I just read your other comment about your fall and medical problems, I hope you get back to snuff soon, it sounds like you have some mending to do. Happy Thanksgiving, it is a time for family.
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@MarshaMusselman (38652)
• Midland, Michigan
1 Oct 18
Will you still be selling your wares in the store or are you stopping that too? Another option might be to check out a new/old site I found yesterday that I wrote about.
You wouldn't sell your product quickly necessarily but you could build a following for future sales. And who knows maybe more would find you on there. It's called patreon. Members are either creators or patrons and some are both. The patrons buy what the creators make.
Some of us might even join to see what other members or in the. A lot of us so more than just writing.
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@MarshaMusselman (38652)
• Midland, Michigan
1 Oct 18
@PainsOnSlate okay, understood.
I don't think it's common knowledge other than for those that produce (creators) and their fans, but I could be wrong. It could be a great option for some people that don't have other outlets to sell their wares at a good price.
I didn't stay there long enough to see how high the pricing can get.
@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
1 Oct 18
The outside show is a crap shoot, you never know what the weather will be and we have in the past had rain and a few years of snow, its darn cold when the sun doesn't shine. I'm not only just too old to stand in someones yard for three days but my art is selling so well in the stores I honestly don't have time to do the show. I am painting right now for the show but if they don't sell there they will in the stores. And because they do sell so well in the store, my prices for the show have moved up. I am ready to give up the weekend show. My children come home for the weekend and help me out in a big way.. I avoid showing my art on line, and might have thought about it but I really, truly don't need another outlet and I know too many that just look to steal ideas.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
29 Sep 18
My little ones will sell for a dollar, the others - the bigger ones sell for much more.
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@JudyEv (325759)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 Sep 18
@PainsOnSlate Yes, I realised it's only the small ones you want to get rid of.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
2 Oct 18
Thanks you, I hope its a fun and happy weekend too.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
29 Sep 18
Nice to hear from you, I will enjoy the thanksgiving weekend, and thank goodness my husband likes to cook so will do that for us. (My kids come home to help me at the show)
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