Here are a few things I had:

This was a window that I couldn't sell for $25. Was that too much? I ended up selling it to a previous customer for $20, because she has placed orders with me in the past, so I cut her a deal.

Here is a lantern I added red snowflakes & pin-striping to. It did sell

This is a glass cutting board I picked up at a garage sale & added the design to. It didn't sell either at $10.

This is a wall hanging I made from a cabinet door I picked up at the Habitat Restore. It's actually an olivey green stain, but doesn't show very well here. I did sell it. It had white paint scrapes on the trim, so I ended up painting it black & added some nearly black picture frames that I picked up at the dollar tree & just added some tan scrapbook card stock for a background & cut out some words in black for each one.

This is a plate I bought & made it into a home decor item. It did not sell either. I had one lady tell me it was gorgeous & how expensive they are in dept. stores & that mine was cheap & then she walked away without a purchase at all. A bit discouraging, I guess.

Here is an old skate I had & I painted it up & decorated it up in a vintage style & I did several others in different styles too.

I also made ornaments out of old spoons & those were good sellers. I don't have a pic of those.

I guess I just wanted to show off my wares that were made from either curb shopping (old window) or other cheap means & repurposed into decor to show on GJ, since it has been a place of such great inspiration for me!!

My friend & I get great feedback about how they like seeing REAL handmade items in our booth. We did better this year with sales than we have ever done before, so I will continue to be on the hunt for more finds for next year, provided that I don't keep them for myself. ;-)

I thought the skates would be a big seller, but not as much as I had hoped. Everyone loved them, but only sold 3.

And that window is very nice...old ones sell around here for $10 - $15 (without any decor)...that would be a great display inside or out! TFS your pics & success, too, I would say! Jeanne S.

As for pricing, toomuchglass is so right. Different shows draw different crowds. Some are people who expect to pay next to nothing for crafts and at others people tend to compare the craft items to what they'd find in a store and find that the asking price is very reasonable in comparison. I imagine if you do enough craft sales, you get to know which sales draw which people.

Are you in a mostly rural area? What goes for little in these places (like mine) would be $$$ near big cities.
Have you ever thought of having a shop on Etsy?

Keep at it...you have great ideas!

Here is pic of a few of my friend's things, it's not a great shot, since I had to zoom & crop the photo.

Here is another skate that I made for the 2nd show, but it didn't sell either, even though it looked darling up next to the white window. I eventually sold it to a lady that works at my bank.

My friend & I do very well at the 2 shows we do & we've been told that we draw the majority of the crowd at both of them. I think the other vendors dislike us for that. This was our best year yet, in spite of the economy.

I keep thinking I'm going to do a show that I keep hearing about that's in a much larger town than where I go now (very tiny!). I've heard that you can charge much higher prices for your stuff there & you'll most likely get it & be sold out at the end of the show. My friend doesn't want to do it because it's out of her small town comfort zone, but I'm all for trying it at least once! I've been doing the same 2 shows for 5 years now.

lily51, I sometimes think about doing Etsy, but I hate dealing with shipping things. Too lazy I guess. LOL!

Thank you all for your kind & encouraging words!

Thanks so much for sharing with us!

I feel like a lazy slob with cabinets full of 'junk' that really need to be put together.

You have really piqued my curiosity with talk of your spoon ornaments. I am a sucker for ornaments. And spoons can be put on our ouside trees so I do think they count as 'garden junk'. So I would really like to know exactly what you did with them... if that aint asking too much. Though now that you mentioned them, I'm getting some ideas myself, but I would still love to know what yours looked like.

THANKS!
Cait

I already know one other vendor at the first craft show I was in is planning on copying the skate idea. That was the only thing they picked up & looked at in our booth.

Your display sounds cute! How cool to have a parking meter!

I seen those same skates at Kohl's you mentioned & actually, there are white ones too & those are where I got the initial idea of putting the fur at the top of my white skate. I don't know, I might try adding some fur to one of the red skates to see if I like it. I also have some sable colored fur trim too.