Craft Fair & Market Vendor Hats

Holiday shows are the highest-attendance events of the craft calendar and the first to fill, so November and December are when a market vendor's whole year is decided. Booth fees on published holiday fairs run from about $25 in Pennsylvania (averaging about $47, up to $90) to $35 in Wisconsin (averaging about $78, up to $100), and the vendor still has to haul everything in on their own. That hauling is the joke here. Craft-show advice says about 40 pounds of weight on each canopy leg, which is five gallons of water, because it is shocking how easily a small amount of wind sends a tent sailing across the street. One vendor's packing list runs to 59 items, with 45 plastic bins of inventory behind a 10 by 10 space. And one blogger who finally tracked her hours realised she was not making much money at all, which is the engine behind MADE IN NINE HOURS / SOLD FOR $18. These craft fair vendor hats cover the whole booth: badges for VENDOR LIFE and CRAFT FAIR VENDOR, the 2am making session, the tent that has to be weighed down or chased, the hobby that became a business, the kettle corn, and the craft show husband who carries the heavy stuff. Embroidered hats with funny phrases are a known craft-fair seller, so wear one at the booth. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat.