Charm and Strange Crochet

With the holidays fast approaching, I want to be sure to have some in-person sales, but I don't feel ready to do a holiday market. Like, stock-wise or mentally. Renting a table at a weekend or even a one-day craft fair feels like something I'm really gonna have to psych myself up for, rather than try to find so close to last minute. That's a whole separate blog post ;) So instead of finding markets, I reached out in my local community Facebook group and I got a list of several different stores in the Metro Detroit area that stock local artists' goods! I spent an afternoon making a spreadsheet because that's the kind of person I am. Then I ended up contacting seven of them, and so far I have gotten a response from three! The first was Insp!re Marketplace , located in Twelve Oaks Mall. This store is juried, which means a panel of people decides whether or not to sell the goods. This is usually to ensure that the store is not flooded with a lot of the same types of ite