I had planned to be out in the yard painting anyway so I set up a few of the horses that I had for sale next to the street. I didn't make any sales but one gal did take a business card for my Dala Horse store on Zazzle so I may get some sales that way.
This time instead of setting everything up carefully I put everything in a shallow blue and white bowl so that the wind wouldn't be a problem.
Each side of my sign is different. I'm not sure it helps but I reverse it every time I set up so that people in the neighborhood wouldn't think it was the same old thing.
Today I painted one dala horse, one post for the wheelchair ramp and a little gnome for the garden.
I'm happy to see that today's horse is already sold as soon as I put a few coats of spray polyurethane on it.
I had this sign made in my Zazzle store. It shows 4 of my different traditional style dala horses and I hang some of the ornaments on the bottom of it in case anyone walking by might be interested in them. I haven't sold any this way yet but it may come in handy as I carve and paint them at my worktable out in the yard
I'm happy to say that I sold some of the dala horse fabric that I designed on the internet. That may
work for you too.
The nice thing about designing merchandise with the dala horses that I create is that long after I've sold the actual horse it can still make me some money and make it possible to keep carving and painting more of them without having to worry about the cost of my art supplies.
When everything works as it should they pay for themselves and give me even more opportunities to keep creating new designs.
