I stupidly signed up to have a stall at my Compound Coffee Morning at the end of the month.
A compound coffee morning is basically a place where loads of women from all different compounds meet up to view craft items and have food and coffee, and i’m really regretting it now.
Part of me really wants to do it and I know I need to do it to start moving my business along, but the other part of me is really dreading it. I’m really not a seller. Before moving to Saudi, I spent the past 10 years working in budgets so to be there right in front of the public who are buying my items is really worrying me. You read so many things about awkward customers, people being mean and so on, and although I very much doubt that will happen here, I am dreading it as when I’m suddenly put on the spot infront of people I don’t know, I go all tongue tied and my brain just stops working.
However, on the plus side, this will be a great experience for me, it may open my products up to more people and get me known a little bit, as well as meaning I will have the confidence to do more and more craft fairs and hopefully have my own little shop one day.
Because of it being the first time I am doing something like this, I’m thinking of writing a regular ‘diary’ spot on this topic, as I start to prepare for the craft fair, going through setting up, getting my products made, all the things that go wrong, the things that went right, my fears and hopefully some excitement along the way as you never know, it may help someone else one day :-)
Karen x
