Hello everyone! Ali, Sarah, Kate and our friend Suzy had a great time selling our wears at the Indie Craft Experience show this month in Atlanta. This bi-annual show is hosted by a great bunch of craft-ers who have scaled up the show after 5 years of running it indoors. It took place at Centennial Olympic Park in downtown Atlanta, and besides the craft market (of which ASK Apparel was a part) there was live music and craft workshops.
The types of goods were similar to what you may find at the CRAFT: A Creative Community shows put on the third Sunday of each month in East Nashville, but at a much larger scale. Ali helps the two women who run this show and it certainly is a learning experience for all! I run a new weekly producer only farmers’ market at a downtown Nashville park, the Public Square Farmers’ Market , and can certainly attest to the efforts required to get vendors coordinated, the media interested, and the shoppers shopping. We have been selling there regularly (every Thursday 10:30-2 if you want to stop by!) and I surely will post about it soon. My apologies for not writing more and sooner, things have been going full speed ahead and I hope to update you all more fully soon!
As a whole, ICE was great for seeing what types of things work in a city like Atlanta and what we can hope to bring to Nashville. As a business, we were really happy with our sales, our new friends, and all the great customers and others we got to meet! Feedback from folks who make hand-crafted goods is always appreciated since they can often empathize with the time and patience it takes to create a quality product. Thank you to everyone who stopped by our tent and brightened our day and thanks to the ICE organizers for a great event!
Kate taking a break after our booth is set up!
Sarah with one of our favorite customers!