{"id":140,"date":"2009-03-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/getting_in_gear_to_vend\/"},"modified":"2011-01-30T22:07:40","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T05:07:40","slug":"getting_in_gear_to_vend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polymathdesignlab.com\/weblog\/2009\/03\/getting_in_gear_to_vend\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting in gear to vend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hooray! I just got my application in to be a strolling vendor at this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highsierramusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">High Sierra Music Festival<\/a>. I&#8217;m super excited about it &#8211; we went to the festival last year and had a great time, and to have the opportunity to go back and enjoy the music and the festival while also promoting my business is just awesome. I&#8217;m particularly excited about the roaming aspect&#8230; I won&#8217;t be tied to a booth, I&#8217;ll be able to catch the shows I want to see, and I&#8217;ll get to mod the wagon I made for the festival last year to be my little mobile &#8216;shoppe&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve never vended at High Sierra before they ask you to include some promotional material with your application. As I&#8217;ve been focused on building up my product offerings and improving the quality of my photos, I didn&#8217;t yet have any printed promotional material. So, I used the quick and easy collage feature at <a title=\"Picnik - web based photo editing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.picnik.com\" target=\"_blank\">Picnik<\/a> to put together a couple of postcards &#8211; the one above that focuses on the laser cut goodies, and another focusing on my electronics work (more on that in another post). I&#8217;m really pleased with how it turned out.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This weekend I&#8217;ll also be heading out to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craftywonderland.com\" target=\"_blank\">Crafty Wonderland<\/a>, an indie craft show that happens one Sunday a month in Portland. I&#8217;ve heard really great things about it, and assuming I like what I see I&#8217;ll probably apply to vend in the April or May show. 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