A Day at the Market

 Here we are on the other side of our first regular market.  What a blast!

It was a day of getting to meet people, letting them find out who we are and what we do, getting our name out there and trying to build a reputation.  We took English muffins (Nana's recipe), quail eggs, baby blankets, woven shawls, and bookmarks along with business cards, flyers with quail information and pricing, and some lovely chairs we found at Sam's (even though we were not selling them, they got a lot of attention!) (I'd like to know if Sam's will pay us a commission on those?)

We sold 9 of the 12 packs of English muffins (and gave out a lot of samples), 8 of the 10 dozen quail eggs, and one baby blanket.  We sold a lot of bookmarks as well ~ they cost a smile (for kids) and a meet and greet and listen to "here's who we are and what we do" (for grown-ups).

We had some great conversations, from kids who love to read books to adults who are interested in the health benefits of quail eggs, to the ladies who are longing for grand babies to purchase a blanket for, to the gentlemen who served in the navy back in the day and wanted a chance to share some of his memories.

A couple of people were interested in the possibility of purchasing processed quail.  We are working on being able to do that.  We need to make sure we can do this in compliance with the local laws and figure out pricing and marketing but we hope to be able to start doing this in limited quantities soon.  

We plan to be back Saturday, February 1st when we will be celebrating the end of January!

We hope to see you there!

Blue skies!!

I'm ridiculously proud of myself for figuring out that QR code

I got several squares woven in the slower moments...and a number of people stopped just to see that

English muffins and quail eggs

I'll grab the camera next week and try to have some better pictures.



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