Well, have one craft sale under my belt; 1 more upcoming this weekend. Impressions of Craftstock - i liked how the teens at the school helped a lot with unloading cars, etc. This sale is fairly new, and i felt patrons were looking for more of a toilet roll poodle type of craft sale; def not the arts side.

Had the pleasure of being booth neighbour to Tommy Cudmore, a glass blower. Ended up leaving with one of Tommy's fab glass penguins - he wanted a sweater for it, since his gran doesn't make them any more. Tommy said he'd been to some kind of craft sale at the Better Living Centre last yr and had sold all but 5 pieces. That did not happen here.

I think there's lots of potential for this sale. It will take a couple more yrs and an attitude adjustment in promotional material to get patrons to be prepared for the 'arts' dimension of arts and crafts.

Next week - report on Thomas Street Middle School craft sale, Mississauga.