So there was this market: Etsy Made Local, that’s happening around the globe on the very same weekend (Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong etc)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BMvacyiDU1C/?taken-by=teametsymalaysia
A quick recap on what’s the event about from Captain Shelby of team Etsy Malaysia.
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I’m very glad to be part of the volunteer team (Me, Shelby, Kricia, Yuzmin, Lynn and Nadiah) We started planning for this event for about a few months ago. With Shelby, who recently became Team Etsy Malaysia’s captain (Kelly from Fabric Fanatics was our previous captain) leading the team, we’ve done a lot of planning and organizing despite our crazy schedules managing our own business, phew glad the event turned out great!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BMtWb3NgsB9/?taken-by=tinypinc
(Lynn is missing from the picture)
We were very limited by the choices of venue, but thanks to Shelby we got to secure our location at Battery Acid Club in Damansara Utama 🙂 It’s a very simple and cozy place. But we had to open up tents outside due to space restriction 🙁 The weather in Malaysia is cray hot and cray rainy. Unlucky enough, it’s the rainy season and thank god the rain came pouring down in the very last hour of our event for both days! (We almost threw dried chilli, it’s like a tradition to keep the weather dry for events LOL)
Nevertheless, the event turned out Super Great despite this is our very first Etsy Made Local event! Thanks to the support of our very awesome Malaysians, many turned up after knowing our events through several channels on Instagram, features by bloggers and more! Thank you guys!
I had a booth in the cafe (Deeply grateful!) because I had aircond, although my booth is right infront of the door, which makes no difference from being outside because of the heat haha. But at least I have shade! I’m super impressed with the vendors outside under the tents to be so patient and understanding withstanding the heat and rain! You guys are awesome pawsome!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BMvVP2XDiZV/?taken-by=teametsymalaysia
Okay, here goes a picture of my booth 😀 I hated having square tables like this, but what to do haha! Hoped I had the long table instead!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BMsrh7sAlzM/?taken-by=tinypinc
Thank you guys for the purchases, thank you for feeding me! My sales were awesome, and you guys have been great showing your support! Every art market feels like a reunion to me, this round I’ve met a few friends who came all the way just to check out the event, you guys rock!
Day 2 was dead-tiring. I didn’t have a booth on this day, but Yuzmin and I took over the social media for EtsyMalaysia and we managed the registration table as well. Managing an event is dead tiring. My sister being in event management is impressive, i mean how can she do this every time? LOL
I had fun interviewing the vendor sellers on our Instagram stories (www.instagram.com/teametsymalaysia) and took a lot of videos & pictures for our posts as well!
I kind of regretted not making any purchase from some of the etsy vendors that I really like! What a shame! Perhaps the next event will come very soon and I’ll get to spend some moolah on you guys!! 😀
[hr]Some more pictures and videos on the event:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BMk-HKED22i/?taken-by=teametsymalaysia
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https://www.instagram.com/p/BMvwsn4jxQQ/?taken-by=teametsymalaysia
https://www.instagram.com/p/BMq-XoyjOFx/?taken-by=teametsymalaysia