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This is another GREAT point. Some of these festivals, people are paying as much as $4.50 for a bottle water and $14 for one beer!! And not special beer/water. Just beer in a plain white plastic cup or an Aquafina. What's $6 for a bar of soap that is going to last a long time. Especially when...

Wowza! :shock: I would much rather share my booth with a fellow soaper than someone trying to turn it into their own personal yard sale. Geez!

Thank you! This is great feedback. There are lots of things that are closer to the $100 and I would probably limit myself to around that number and not go any bigger unless I was really doing well, however I still run into the issue of how much product to bring. Even some of the $100 ones have...

Also, I have lived here my entire life. My family are all crafters. My stepdad did shows and had a permanent store in the flea market for years, so I know the turnout of the few smaller craft shows and I know the long term goal needs to be these festivals. I just don't know if it would be...

I most certainly am. I live in Norfolk, actually. And sharing would be something I would be interested in looking into. I am still friends with a lot of food vendors that were my "competition" at various festivals that we went to and always found it easier to be friendly with competition, as...

Oh! So pretty! I would buy those! Just a word on the miter box. My sweet hubby saw how frustrated I was with cutting and bought mine. He really tries to help in every way he can, but the poor guy can't win. Make sure you get one that is tall enough to go over the soaps. Mine is about a...

You should see what it costs to get into some of the other ones. One event is four days long and is normally huge. And by huge, I mean 300,000 - 350,000 people in attendance on average, but they want $1000 a day + 15 percent of sales after tax. And last year, there was a hurricane coming that...

Great food for thought. The $100 one is the one that already has another soaper signed up for this year (I am not trying to get into any of the festivals this year) and there is a map of the grounds and where the other soapers booth will be located. I was looking at the map the other day and...

Oh, I had't even considered weather! I have been looking and thinking I would wait one more year longer than I had planned and then consider getting in to one because there are literally hundreds of them in the area during the Summer, but in Winter there are about 5 each weekend, but they are...

Yes one of THOSE!! At first I tried to turn it into an opportunity to educate someone on soap and the process, but I should have known it would go nowhere when I had to explain why I wasn't willing to just accept the bent and dented pipe he tried to make me take so he didn't have to go up the...

Honestly, I wouldn't give that man the time of day, much less a bar of my amazing soap, lol. In addition to the fact that he didn't look like he had been anywhere near a shower since before my soap was made, I didn't get into where he started telling me how irresponsible I was for soaping in a...

Thank you Judymoody! I spent a lot of time studying before making my first batch and am trying to keep a good attitude about everything. I have started taking really good notes about everything I do to a soap and everything that I like and don't like about it and keeping the attitude that I...

First of all, Hazel: There is no need to apologize at all!! This has been a very good lesson in taking very good notes. I didn't have a printer when I made that batch and went out and bought one to print the recipes that I use. I didn't write anything down because I knew the recipe was here...

Thank you everyone! I am so excited that it worked out as well as it did and if not, then I will have certainly learned something. This is what I know so far: The FO is the Fudge Brownie from Crafter's Choice. It did not accelerate from what I could tell and in fact, fell quite the...

Thank you! They smell so good, I had to back the kids off. My six year old is very confused and mad that we can't eat the brownies. Next time I will make brownies or whatever I am making in soap as a real dish also. Turns out that while talking about it last night with DH, I had her thinking...

Well, I cut too soon and a couple times I forgot to wipe the knife before slicing the next bar, and I am really bad at slicing bars and am obviously going to need a cutter that measures for me and they really need a good lean up, but I am going to just consider this a good first shot. You can...

That makes a lot of sense and is what I am hoping for. The difference in just these two weeks is huge in ever aspect. I just need to learn to leave it alone for the next three weeks and see what happens. I have a list of different things I want to try, so I am going to try to make something...

I have definitely rethought my position on lard after trying this bar. I am making my first batch with palm oil today and I am going to compare the two when they are ready. With this being my first time trying handmade soaps, I have no idea how luxurious it can get, lol. I have no problem...

I had heard something about this, but never imagined that it would work so quickly and so well. What a huge difference! I feel like running right out the door and buying one of those, lol.

Thank you!! I will certainly check that out!