This past weekend, I got to be a vendor at the Isle of Wight County Fair in Windsor, Virginia.
If you’re interested in learning the history of this fair. I recommend clicking here. The Isle of Wight County Fair’s website does a far better job of explaining the complicated history of the fair better than I ever could.
This was the first time that I have taken part in a 4 day outdoor show.
I am still, physically and mentally, recovering from this event.
That said, I did enjoy myself. It was ( with 1 more show this year to go) and biggest money making show to date. I talked to some existing vendor friends and I made some new vendor friends. I’ll be making seperate posts for each of the vendors I want to point out. I may end up doing a whole series on it, as there’s quite a few vendors I know who I think deserve a shout out.
A few take aways:
- This is a long event, think 12 hours days (14 with the hour long commute). Make sure you bring plenty of snacks and drinks unless you want to spend all that time either not eating, or only eating fair food.
- Bring a helper. Things did get busy, or just steady enough that getting away from the table for a minute to mentally regroup, was not an option.
- I should have brought more cryptids and less hats. All of my cryptids sold in the the first 2 days. I brought 23 hats. I sold 1.
I do plan on applying to be a vendor for this event again.
