Blog - Individual Festival Blogs

Bear Paw Sticks & Staffs, Boyce, LA

This is our second festival with my broken arm. Unloading, setup, breakdown, and loading took twice as long with me sidelined; this cast really bites! However, this was our first really profitable setup this year! This venue is always good to and for us; our fantasy/gaming line does extremely well here, and we always get a suggestion or two for variations on existing product lines and a few custom orders. The weather tried to be against us; the wind made several attempts to parasail our setup around the campus, but was foiled by our tiedown system and the sheer weight of our product! Saturday morning it briefly sprinkled rain several times, thereby taking foot traffic down to about half of what it was last year; we still managed to almost double our sales over last year! Since there's no setup fee (lots are minimum 10'X10', electricity available, byoc), and the college is around 20 miles from our house this one was almost pure profit! We love this venue!