How many sets/focals?

[clasicat]

Bugger best get my but into gear 
i have about 40 sets made but only a handfull of focals, I really struggle with focals, not really my thang 

Yeah but your sets are amazing 

[pixiewillow]

Awwwwwwww thank you Claire 

[Redhotsal]

Oh crikey, everyones got much more stock than me!!! Pants. It's too late now!

BUT for people who have never done this before - bear in mind that Bead Fair tables are NOTORIOUSLY skinny - they're six foot in length but about the width of a plank. So what looks sparse on your dining room table will be cluttered on the average Bead Fair table. Catches me out every time!

GOOD LUCK for Saturday and all the upcoming pre-Chrimbo fairs to everyone! 

[misspixie]

Woohoo! I've been saving my pocket money to come play at the bead fair on Saturday - I even didn't go drinking this week... See you all Saturday!

[Caroline]

OMG i think i've got too amny beads for Chester

I have around 50 sets, 20 sets of fritties but only 4 focal and 10 silver cores.

But now i feel maybe 50 sets of beads is too many

[Shirley]

I think having that number is great, because as they sell so you can put more out. You could pull people back to your table that way too.

[Pat from Canvey]

I think you can never have too many. As some sells, you can put more out, otherwise your table becomes barer as time goes by and not so attractive.

[Pat from Canvey]

Vicki A. I'm going to be wearing my Frit Happens badge. We all made home made ones for Towcester last year.

[Caroline]

I think having that number is great, because as they sell so you can put more out. You could pull people back to your table that way too.

cheers Shirley, thats a good point

[pixiewillow]

Made some stonkin focals today! Can't wait to get them out the kiln 

[Caroline]

i'm avoiding cleaning a huge pile of fritty beads

Need to make more focals

I can't wait to see all the lampwork tables at Chester

[silverlemon]

Hiya. I must be a real tart, I just put everything out, and anyone who'se seen my table will probably tell you it's cluttered...as it is! From my experience I find I sell more if I have loads out. If I keep it less cluttered I sell lots less. Totally bizarre, as I'd rather have a posher more designed looking table.

As for focals, I've hardly sold any lately, everyone seems to want sets, so I wouldn't worry about making lots of focals if it was me.

If you're worried about not having enough, why not share your table with a friend?

[Pam]

This has been a realy good thread to follow as I too am doing my first bead show in Nantwich in Dec. I am now seriously counting how many sets I have and what I need to make before then.

[turnedlight]

I don't have many beads on my tables, I have mostly jewellery made from my beads.. but I would love to sell more beads on their own, I need some sort of stand don't I? And do people have loose ones in dishes or all of them tied into sets?

[Lush!]

Last Saturday I sold roughly 4 times as many sets as focals.

I tie sets together and lay them all over the table, then I group other things together in dishes.