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Rolling Craft Fair
Woven products, puppets, fragances, trinkets and free 5’ massages.
Saturday September 11th, 2010
Sandra and Paula met by chance. Sandra took a course for young entrepreneurs, a sort of Do it yourself within the Small Business category. This led to the idea of doing fairs in houses, giving an initial boost to combine her entrepreneurial spirit with crafts. At first the fairs began at her place and the method of advertising most efficient and cheap, was the internet. She set up a mailing list calling friends and colegues to help her spread the venture among their contacts. The mail arrived at a friend who forwarded it to a cousin whose husband has a sister who turned out to be the best friend of Paula. Paula has lived all her life in Monte Castro and has always wanted to have a knitting shop. So they met, liked each other and began to organize the fairs together.
That was the beginning. Now the project lost a little bit of continuity, is half suspended. Those tiny little problems that drags life, temporary details that interrupt desires for a certain period. Like the fact that Paula has a tiny child and that children demand a lot of time, and money, and that to have money you have to work and that tworking consumes even more time and time for knitting is one of those that have to be sacrified first. But who knows, for the meantime Sandra is working, creating and producing, and both of them still dream of having their own space to sell their products and those of other artisans as well as teach and build a community where knowledge and other things can be shared.
Rolling Craft Fair
Woven products, puppets, fragances, trinkets and free 5’ massages.
Saturday September 11th, 2010
Sandra and Paula met by chance. Sandra took a course for young entrepreneurs, a sort of Do it yourself within the Small Business category. This led to the idea of doing fairs in houses, giving an initial boost to combine her entrepreneurial spirit with crafts. At first the fairs began at her place and the method of advertising most efficient and cheap, was the internet. She set up a mailing list calling friends and colegues to help her spread the venture among their contacts. The mail arrived at a friend who forwarded it to a cousin whose husband has a sister who turned out to be the best friend of Paula. Paula has lived all her life in Monte Castro and has always wanted to have a knitting shop. So they met, liked each other and began to organize the fairs together.
That was the beginning. Now the project lost a little bit of continuity, is half suspended. Those tiny little problems that drags life, temporary details that interrupt desires for a certain period. Like the fact that Paula has a tiny child and that children demand a lot of time, and money, and that to have money you have to work and that tworking consumes even more time and time for knitting is one of those that have to be sacrified first. But who knows, for the meantime Sandra is working, creating and producing, and both of them still dream of having their own space to sell their products and those of other artisans as well as teach and build a community where knowledge and other things can be shared.
