Recession Crafts

In which Emily recounts selling crafts at Tight Knit in Troy, and discusses how the economy is effecting her.....and how it doesn't really matter.


I feel like this video is pretty boring, but I had taken to footage and wanted to share. The Restys are a great band. The girl who had a stand next to mine had her mother there to help her out. I couldn't do that, I would get too stressed out and be mean to my mom, so I just tell her to stop by. Also, I don't need her help, and my mom is one of the type of people who likes to be doing something. (I'm of that type, too.) Last year I did three days of craft fairs, two days of Tight Knit and one of this other craft fair being run by the Grant Street Arts group (from Albany). The GSA had held their Troy craft fair in the upper level of the Atrium, where the winter farmers' market happens, and it was more expensive to participate in than Tight Knit, so I just did one day of that. Tight Knit had such success last winter that they did weekly craft fairs during the summer, in conjunction with the farmers' market (Monument Square in Troy, NY). Now that it is after November, Tight Knit is occurring inside, upstairs, where the GSA craft fair was. I suppose this is the reason that TK was only one day this year. It would be ridiculous to have the second day in the Frear Building and compete with what they were already doing, next door, in the Atrium.


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