EDIT: Sorry the pics weren't showing up! It was an issue with google photos. It should be fixed now!





Hellooooooo!! I am so, so happy from these past three days! Paradise City was the absolute best! For my first con I did incredibly good, and even other artists agreed with me and were surprised that it was my first time selling!



But onto the juicy parts that I know everyone is interested in hearing. I'll put the pics first ( I tried not to be on my phone too much, aaaaand I was pretty busy and having a lot of fun so I didn't take that many pics) and then give a breakdown of my products, what sold and what didn't, patterns, and whatever other stuff I remember!







Here is my booth on Thursday night right after setup (hence the lack of people in the background). I did rearrange a few things as you'll see, like I added another keychain rack in the center of the table instead of the white bowl, moved the stickers and sign to the left side, and put more business cards where the stickers were.













Slightly blurry shot with all the rearrangements. I brought all the cat butt coasters I forgot to bring on Thursday, too!





















































































































































Closeup shot, ignore my derp face.

















A crowd gathers! People really liked touching the sandwich coasters.

















































































































































Here's what my custom orders form looked like! Designed by me with some insp from google.













































































































































































































And here's SOME of my inventory. After this I made more keychains, another burger hat, another dragon, more little dice bags, more donuts, a ton of F-bombs, and one or two more of some of the plushies. And a few extra plushies like kuchi kopis and mini meeseeks. Not shown are the potted plants.





So. Friday was pretty slow, for mostly everyone. I only made just above $100, which at the time I thought was pretty good. (I'll list some of the stuff I sold each day but not every single item). I sold all 3 of my white totoros though, and 7 keychains. My highest item sold was a chubby cat for $12.





Saturday was AWESOME! I was 5 dollars away from making $500. $125 of that was just from keychains. My octopus ones went the quickest! I sold out of all the ducks as well. I sold 6 plants, (3 to the same person!) both my unicorns, a sandwich coaster set, and 10 F-bombs.





Sunday I didn't know what to expect. But it went great again! I made about $400; you can do the math and figure out how much I approximately made. The third thing I sold that day was my pink dragon!! I was so excited I didn't even care if I sold anything else that day. But I did. :3 Some were a burger hat, my 2 large dice bags, a kuchi kopi, 3 chubby cats, and 3 custom orders! One was a stingray that I did there at the con. Sadly my phone kept dying so I wasn't able to take a picture, but trust me, it was adorable.





My most popular items : keychains (sold the most of those), F-bombs (sold a lot, and people would pick them up and laugh, say "I need these!" or "I should get a bunch and throw them at people" or tell me that they were funny/genius/hilarious), the dragons (even though I only sold one, they drew people in and i got a ton of comments/compliments/questions on those...people thought they were super impressive!), the sandwich coasters (people also thought these were genius) and tied for last place, the small dice bags (I didn't sell many but people liked them) and plants (I only had 2 left!)





Least popular items : cat butt coasters, sadly :(. Didn't sell a single set. The big meeseeks (I think I priced them a little too high), my domos (I'm not sure why), annnnd a few of the keychain designs, I only sold one or two of.









Pattern and price roundup! Only for the things I sold though. If there's no link, it means I freehanded it. Forgive me if I forget anything!





Coaster Set-$20

White Totoros-$10

Mini Meeseeks-$10 (I will write up a pattern for these soon!)

Potted Plants-$10

Big Dice Bags-$10

F-Bombs $5

Keychains-$5 (here's all the ones I used patterns for)

I'm so incredibly happy with how this con went. I really enjoyed being behind the table and talking with customers, and getting to meet other artists. I got a ton of new followers on instagram because of people taking my cards! Which I brought around ~200 of, and barely had any left at the end of the con! And they followed me because I offered free stickers when they did. :P Here are my cards, and some of the stickers (there's a few more designs in the booklet)

















































































































































For my signs, I typed them out and printed them out, then cut and glued them onto cardstock. I also had little chalkboard clips that I used, and some plain brown tags that I tied with yarn for my bigger items.





Super out-of-place sidenote, but I was the ONLY crochet table at the convention. Like, there was no crochet to be seen except this one girl's hat. Most of the artist alley was composed of more traditional artist alley artists with prints and buttons and stickers and such. They were all INCREDIBLY talented and I loved everyone's work (and bought quite a bit of it), but I think I really stood out in the alley.





Talking more about the actual event, it's a pretty big con! If you've ever heard of Supercon in Florida and Raleigh, Paradise City is like its little brother. A lot of experienced convention artists would advise against doing a convention of PCCC's size for your first time, but I had no idea it was that big until after I bought my table. ((They had commercials!!!))





The event was really well run. I had no problems at all, and it was really cool how smoothly everything and everyone operated. Plus I felt really cool wearing my special "Exhibitor" Badge:





(so stoked they did an Overwatch design)

















































































































































I hope this post was interesting and/or helpful! I couldn't be happier with my experience. And of course feel free to ask any questions about anything I might have missed!



