This guest post comes direct to us via the very tal­ent­ed Emma of Emma Makes

This Sat­ur­day it’s Craft 2.0 time again and I’ll be sell­ing. I thought I’d also share some of my inside tips to mak­ing the most of the fair…

Become a friend of Craft 2.0

Sign­ing up to become a friend of Craft 2.0 costs just $25 for a year’s mem­ber­ship. Buy a mem­ber­ship here.

As a friend you’ll get entry to the fair half an hour before oth­er non-friend shop­pers (well worth it because you can cher­ry pick the best/one-off stuff before any­one else gets a chance), get a reg­u­lar newslet­ter out­lin­ing the best stuff about upcom­ing fairs, AND best of all: you get a goody bag of loot at every fair you go to. Trust me, with the amount of sug­ar those things usu­al­ly con­tain, you’ll make the $25 back on lol­lies and choco­late alone.

Not to men­tion, this fair, in addi­tion to all the sug­ar you also get: a ceram­ic but­ter­fly brooch (RRP around $18), hair ties, dis­count vouch­ers, a soap sam­ple (great for trav­el­ling) and more.

Read the pro­files of crafters

Craft 2.0 is usu­al­ly packed with hoards of peo­ple push­ing to get to the stalls. While I enjoy look­ing around each and every stall as a shop­per, it also plans to make a bat­tle strat­e­gy. Before the fair, most crafters have pro­files of them­selves and what they make on the Craft 2.0 blog.

Read through them and note down specifics of what you’re look­ing for so you don’t miss out. This fair I’m par­tic­u­lar­ly keen on Atti­cus Finch’s fox purs­es and Tinch Design Stu­dio.


If you’re on Twit­ter and Face­book, follow/like Craft 2.0

It makes it eas­i­er to read the blog pro­files.
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Make a day of it
The Dowse (the venue for Craft 2.0) is also a museum/art gallery with great exhi­bi­tions and it has a super cafe with great food. Just go for the Shoot­ing Star home­made bot­tled lemon­ade at Cafe Reka if you can’t muster up any oth­er rea­son.

Vis­it Emma Makes

That’s me. My stall is  in the large room, in the cor­ner and this time I have a full table and a rack of bags. Come and say hel­lo. Don’t come and poke all my stuff and talk loud­ly about how you could make it your­self.