Fall Art/Craft Supply Market - Sept. 17, 2022
Ready to clean out your craft supply closet, shelf, boxes, storage, etc? We can help with that! Outreach Committee is planning their first ever “Create it Forward” Fall Art/Craft Supply Sale. This event will be held on Sept. 17, 2022 in the Country Kitchen Building of the Flathead County Fairgrounds.
There are a few different ways in which you can choose to participate or sell your surplus art/craft supplies. All we ask to get started is that you pay a $25 up-front participation deposit. Then consider the following:
- Would you like to donate your supplies, let us sell them and/or donate them to a local school?
- Would you like to drop off your supplies, let us try to sell them, then you pick up anything that doesn’t sell? - donate 25% of your sales.
- Would you like to participate and sell your own supplies at the event? - donate 10% of your sales.
- Would you like to volunteer to help out?
Click HERE to find the sign up form and event flyer.
OCTOBER ONLINE!
We’re going to try something NEW for our ACF Webpage this fall. Rather than having items listed for sale all the time, we’re going to host an online “virtual” market for three weeks in October.
Here’s how it will work:
- If you’ve already paid the $50 design fee for listing products in the past 2 years, you do not need to pay again.
- New participants in the online sales will need to pay a one-time $50 design fee. This is to cover the costs associated with hosting the website and creating your item “slots”
- ACF will advertise this online event through social media.
- We will notify you if one of your items sells. Then you are responsible for shipping the item to the buyer within 48 hours of the sale.
- See the ACF 2022 Handbook for more details on how online sales works.
Contact Lindsay with questions, concerns or to get on the participant list. More details will be shared to all as we get closer to October.
2022 Christmas Show - November 25-27, 2022
If you haven’t already done so, please don’t forget to send in your vendor application for the 2022 ACF Christmas Show. Application deadline is September 14, 2022, but we’re already filling up fast!!
Follow the Facebook Event HERE
Need to Cancel your booth?
While we absolutely don’t want to see any of you need to cancel, we do understand that sometime stuff just comes up and schedules need to change. So, as a friendly reminder, you can cancel your booth anytime before November 1, 2022 and still get a FULL REFUND.
Cancellation notices and refund requests must be in writing using the ACF form. You can find the online forms here:
https://artistsandcraftsmen.org/pages/show-cancellation-notice
Have questions? Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us:
artistsoftheflathead@gmail.com
Christmas Show flyers, posters and save the date cards will be available for pickup at the Sept. General Meeting
Next General Meeting
September 14, 2022
7:00 pm
Country Kitchen of Flathead County Fairgrounds
Follow the event on Facebook HERE
Agenda:- Recording Secretary Report
- Treasurer Report
- Picnic Recap
- Art/Craft Supply Sale
- Wingo Fundraiser
- October Online Web Sales
- Christmas Show Q&A
Special Meeting - Oct. 12, 2022
In advance of our November election meeting, where we usually finalize most, if not all, of our plans for the next year, we’d like to have a brainstorming discussion with you all about 2022 Summer Show, how it went, ways we can make it better, and whether or not we should join with Food Truck Festival again for next year.
We would also like to take some time to discuss the future of ACF and ways in which we can manage the growth of our organization. If we continue to attract new members and vendors like we have been, we are no longer going to be able to “guarantee” a booth space for every member. So, Board has been tossing around many ideas, including but not limited to, capping our membership at 200 people and offering various incentives for organization participation. But we’d like to hear your thoughts and ideas as well before we make any final proposals and any changes are made. So, make sure you come to the October Meeting!!
Special Meeting
October 12, 2022
7:00 PM
Country Kitchen of Flathead County Fairgrounds
Click HERE to see the event statistics and vendor survey comments from 2022 Summer Show.
Wine Wednesday Wingo
October 19, 2022
Mark your calendars and come join us once again for some BINGO fun! Outreach Committee will be at MontaVino Winery on October 19, 2022 from 6pm to 8pm. Play Bingo and win some great prizes, including a large gift basket from MontaVino. Bingo cards are $1 each to play. We will have up to 10 rounds, as time allows. All proceeds will go to the “Create It Forward” Education fund.
We are also accepting donations for prizes for this event. Feel free to bring them to the next general meeting or coordinate pickup/delivery at a later date.
Follow the Facebook Event HERE