i'm in the UK, not sure what the time difference is from you though....

I am generally up online till very late up until 3-4am in the morning...so thats probably late evening for most Americans.  just let me know and i can find the time!

great idea! Evenings any day except Thursday work best for me due to that pesky day job thing. ;) I'm in the central time zone (Chicago)

Evenings Eastern Time for me... and weekends

I'm so sorry soulstone.  I'll be praying for your mom's swift recovery.

Don't forget that if things get too intense for you, that you can put your shop on vacation mode.  Then, we can have a welcome back twitter and blog party for you when things have settled down.

Soulstone, I'm so sorry to hear that.  I will keep you and your family in my thoughts and prayers!

For a chat, I'm open to days/times.  I'm in PST, so nothing too early if you do it in the morning. 

Soulstone, I'm sending good thoughts your mom's way.

I'm west coast.  It would be so cool to chat live time.

That's awesome I'm so glad she's doing better How are you doing?

This thing called sleep...it's for the weak LOL This is my most productive time of day because i'm alone, the kids and husband are sleeping, and it's super quiet. So i get the opportunity to read things and do some research uninterrupted I'm glad that you're doing ok, I was hoping that things were settling down for you. That's awesome you're going to the festival, that should hopefully drum up business or at least some publicity. Make sure you take a hand mirror with you in case something wants to try something on LOL a friend of mine that sells jewelry went to this fair type thing and didn't take one hahah what a bone head she is.

well i know how I am and when I shop jewelry I want to at least be able to hold it up to the pertinent body part to get an idea of how it'll look. another thing I read about when going to craft fairs and things of that nature...take a cute little basket with some business cards in it that have your shop url, email etc on it so that people can grab one. If you don't want to spend a fortune on having cards printed do like I did and buy the standard paper size cardstock for scrapbooking, use microsoft words business card template and print out your own. I attach one of my cards to every package that goes out. Gives them a reminder of who they bought from, I thank them for their purchase and it has my shop url and email on it.

soulstone, another idea which worked well for me when selling at a school fair last year, was i had these pebbles that my grandad had sent me all different shapes and sizes, and i put them in a little basket at the front, and put a sign, pick your favourite pebble, and you get to keep it!  it was meant to be for the kids, but the adults loved it too, and it made them look at my stuff and buy, because their kids were occupied in picking which stone they wanted, some took ages, which is even better since it gave me time to tell their aprents about my etsy store, and etsy itself, and that i can do custom work etc. 

I also had my business cards at the front of the table too.  I printed them on my computer and laminated them and cut them all out.  I put a hole punch in the corner, and added some ribbon to it so it doesnt look like every other business card.  theres pictures somewhere in my blog i think.

good luck with it all:D

how about having some offers up....buy 2 and get another pair of earring for half the price?

or buy the necklace, and get the earrings for free etc etc...

discount what you feel is comfortable for you while making a profit.  also have prices of things on your stall, because if someone sees soemthing and theres no price they might feel a little shy to ask, if its on there theyre more likely to buy.

I would love to see a chat room for us. I know we are all over the place but why does it have to be only one time why can't we have 2 or even 3, that way when it's conveint you can just stop by.   
Rose