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How do I set up an art show or craft fair booth on a tight budget?

I’m a junior in high school and would like to try selling my photography at local art shows, craft fairs, and festivals. I’ve found some websites that talk about how to set up a booth, but they all reccomend getting a canopy ($700+), wall panels ($400) and display racks, none of which I can afford. I’ve been to some shows, and a lot of the photographers use plastic storage boxes for the smaller, matted pics you’d flip through, and they just put em on a table. I can probly find enough of those around the house to use, and would probly be able to talk my pastor into letting me borrow a table from church, but I also need to be able to hang the framed pictures. I can’t really afford much, I’d like to make a profit, or at least come out even. What do I do?

Depending on your subject matter and style…I would go straight “industrial” look…borrow two sturdy aluminum or something ladders, and use cable wire between them and hang the pics in mid-air.

Go to goodwill and find a huge neutral color bed sheet or fabric piece and use it as a backdrop. Walk through the lumber & garden departments at home depot and take a look at fencing stuff, rebar…

You could also go get a whole bunch of free boxes from a liquor store, duct tape them together to form a kind of modular display, cover them with the bed sheet(s).

Whatever you do, have fun with it.

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Clay Pot Crafts

If you have an artistic mind and you love you make something decorative and attractive for your home then clay pots are definitely a great idea to work with. You can make different items or can also so some painting on the clay pot in such a way that it will make the plant look better. It may also happen that you not even notice the plant just because the pot is so attractive.

To make a painted clay pot you need to have 4″ clay pot, opaque apple green acrylic paint, opaque blue lagoon acrylic paint, opaque yellow acrylic paint, semi opaque pumpkin acrylic paint, semi opaque white acrylic paint, fine point permanent black marker.

Steps to make a painted clay pot:
1. First using a small ruler and pencil, you should measure the height of the clay pot starting just below the rim. Then mark off the halfway point between the top and the bottom of the clay pot. Altogether you should measure and mark off the halfway point at four opposite places on the pot.

2. Now holding the plastic measuring tape up to the clay pot, connect the halfway points and then draw a light pencil line between all the halfway point marks around the pot.

3. Line up the ruler with each of the halfway points around the pot one at a time and draw a light pencil line from the top of the plant pot just below the rim to the bottom of the pot at this point. You will have 8 squares drawn on the pot.

4. Then you have to decide on the color scheme or arrangement of the colors into squares you have drawn on the pot. In one set of squares you can fill any combination of two colors and in the other one also you can fill other set of colors.

5. Squeeze a small amount of the pumpkin acrylic paint on the paper plate and gather a small amount of paint on the straight edge of the brush and paint along the straight lines of one of the squares with a generous coat paint on the paper plate. Outline and fill in one of the square completely with a generous layer of paint. Now paint the square diagonally across from it pumpkin using the same method as you did for the first one and let the paint dry. Rinse out and shape the brush again.

6. When this paint is drying, you can turn the pot around to other set of 4 squares. Squeeze a small amount of yellow acrylic paint on the paper plate. Outline and fill in one of the squares with a generous coat of the yellow paint. Paint the square diagonally across from it yellow suing the same method as you have did for the first one and then let the paint dry.

7. When the paint on this side is drying, turn the pot around to the first set of 4 squares. Squeeze a small amount of apple green acrylic paint and paint the square diagonally across from it green using the same method as you did earlier. Again let the paint dry and you can rinse out and shape the brush again.

8. Again while this paint is drying turn the pot around to the second set of 4 squares and squeeze a small amount of blue lagoon acrylic paint on the paper plate. Next outline and fill in one of the squares with a generous coat of blue paint. Paint the square diagonally using the same method and let the paint dry.

9. When the paint is drying for the last squares you have painted, it is time to paint the edge of the pot white. Squeeze a small amount of white acrylic paint onto the paper plate and paint the edges.

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