Iguanadon Posted October 10, 2016 Report Share Posted October 10, 2016 I'm a weather geek and two days later I'm still baffled by how my little town, on an island (Carolina Beach, NC), in the path of Matthew, came out virtually unscathed. Go 10 miles inland and the entire eastern half of North Carolina had major flooding with upwards of 10-18" and here I sit, on the coast and we received only 2 1/2 inches with winds under 50mph. Since I didn't even lose power, I was able to devote the entire weekend to cutting dog puzzles in preparation for my long awaited big event, a dog rescue festival coming up this Saturday. At last count I have 55 different breeds that will be available and on display and I currently have 60 duplicates of the more popular breeds cut and shrink wrapped ready to sell. I can only base popularity based on my sales this past summer and I'm sure I'll get flooded with requests for some oddball breed that I would have never thought to stockpile. :-) My most recent task was gathering the pictures of each individual item I've ever made and printing them out and placing them in a photo album to have on hand to show when someone asks for a particular breed of dog that I currently don't have on hand to show/sell them. Wish me luck. I'm still cutting and hope to have a bunch of orders to fulfill next week. Iggy lawson56, Lucky2 and Dave Monk 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ike Posted October 10, 2016 Report Share Posted October 10, 2016 You were lucky. and I wish you all the luck in selling your dog puzzles. With that many you shouldn't have to turn away sales. IKE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWSUDEKUM Posted October 10, 2016 Report Share Posted October 10, 2016 Glad you weathered the storm in great shape. My brother and his family live near Greenville they themselves came through it with just a bit of minor yard flooding but all around them the roads were / are impassable due to flooding. Hope you have a great show on Saturday. DW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawson56 Posted October 10, 2016 Report Share Posted October 10, 2016 So glad you made it thru all that devastation without any damage.Good Luck on your upcoming show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrolling Steve Posted October 10, 2016 Report Share Posted October 10, 2016 Good luck Scott !....WWe dodged a bullet ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryEA Posted October 10, 2016 Report Share Posted October 10, 2016 Yea!!!!! glad to hear it all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WayneMahler Posted October 10, 2016 Report Share Posted October 10, 2016 Glad to hear it missed you with all the devastation. Wishing you great sales for you puzzles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Johnson Posted October 11, 2016 Report Share Posted October 11, 2016 Glad to hear you weathered the storm Iggy. Good luck with your sales. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatie Posted October 11, 2016 Report Share Posted October 11, 2016 Glad to hear that you were relatively untouched. Good luck with the show. Marg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NC Scroller Posted October 11, 2016 Report Share Posted October 11, 2016 Glad you lucked out Scott. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangeman Posted October 11, 2016 Report Share Posted October 11, 2016 would like to see some pics of your puzzles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iguanadon Posted October 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2016 (edited) would like to see some pics of your puzzles. Feel free to check out my Facebook page. http://facebook.com/woodcraftbyscott And attached are a handful of pics. I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. Edited October 11, 2016 by Iguanadon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky2 Posted October 12, 2016 Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 Scott, I just checked out your facebook page, and I read about how well you were doing at the sales you attend. Your making good money off of these puzzles, hopefully, sales will keep up for you. What do you sell besides puzzles, anything? And what percentage of puzzles you sell, are dog puzzles? Len Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iguanadon Posted October 12, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 Scott, I just checked out your facebook page, and I read about how well you were doing at the sales you attend. Your making good money off of these puzzles, hopefully, sales will keep up for you. What do you sell besides puzzles, anything? And what percentage of puzzles you sell, are dog puzzles? Len Hi Len, Thanks for looking. This was my first summer selling items and in 13 Saturdays at my local Farmers Market I sold a total of 318 puzzles. 155 of them were dogs, almost exactly half. Next best seller were the simple colored dinosaur puzzles, 73 of those. Zoo animals and sea critters combined were another 80. Keep in mind that I live in a tourist/beach community so I have the good fortune to have a fresh batch of potential customers roaming around the market every Saturday. Although I was happy to learn that a good portion of the weekly shoppers were local residents. I'll report back after my big dog rescue fundraiser event this Saturday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amazingkevin Posted October 13, 2016 Report Share Posted October 13, 2016 Hi Len, Thanks for looking. This was my first summer selling items and in 13 Saturdays at my local Farmers Market I sold a total of 318 puzzles. 155 of them were dogs, almost exactly half. Next best seller were the simple colored dinosaur puzzles, 73 of those. Zoo animals and sea critters combined were another 80. Keep in mind that I live in a tourist/beach community so I have the good fortune to have a fresh batch of potential customers roaming around the market every Saturday. Although I was happy to learn that a good portion of the weekly shoppers were local residents. I'll report back after my big dog rescue fundraiser event this Saturday. Blessings in disguise! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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