Here's my set up at the herp show yesterday. The entire table wouldn't fit in the photo, but I had about 9 pictures plus the basket of notecards.People were selling live animals(mostly reptiles & amphibians), supplies, books & t-shirts. Attendance was high & people were buying, just not buying MY stuff. All I sold was a packet of notecards and didn't even make enough to cover my entry fee. While artwork is unusual, there are other shows that include it & I used to do well in another organization's herp events. Unfortunately, they no longer do them.  

    Along with a lot of cool animals, there was an array of tattoos & t-shirts in the room. One attendee looked remarkably like Dubya(Pres. Bush) & had he been wearing a suit, the experience would've been spooky. He did have a larger vocabulary, though. Another person was carrying around a newly bought baby alligator with a leash of red yarn. What is he going to do with it when it's full grown? A customer at the next table got bitten by a python, the vendor tried prying it off with a credit card, which made no impression on the snake & finally released the customer's arm. The table across from me was staffed by a family with 3 bored teenagers, all of whom felt the aisle between our tables was for socializing, not customers. Along with reptiles, they were selling ferrets & chinchillas, which entertained me when people weren'tlooking at my work. I got a lot of praise, but after awhile I felt like screaming "Cash, not compliments!" The lack of sales was disheartening, but I'm going to try a couple more times at their monthly events in hopes of doing better. if not, then I'll revert to being a spectator.