Boston Bazaar Bizaare Winter 2007 Information for Vendors

Printable Promo Materials

Feel free to download and print these full-page and quarter page flyers
and distribute them where you live, work and hang out!

PDF version | JPEG version

PDF version | JPEG version

Web Banners

If you'd like, you can place any of these banners on your website, blog, myspace, etc.

<a href="http://www.bazaarbizarre.org/boston.html"><img src="http://www.bazaarbizarre.org/boston_stuff/webbanners2007/bos_bazbiz_2007_90x60.gif"></a>

<a href="http://www.bazaarbizarre.org/boston.html"><img src="http://www.bazaarbizarre.org/boston_stuff/webbanners2007/bos_bazbiz_2007_125x125.gif"></a>

<a href="http://www.bazaarbizarre.org/boston.html"><img src="http://www.bazaarbizarre.org/boston_stuff/webbanners2007/bos_bazbiz_2007_468x60.gif"></a>

Floor Plan & Vendor Table Locations

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Load In Schedule & Parking

Each vendor will be allotted a load in time slot. During your time slot, you should pull up in front of the Cyclorama (527-551 Tremont St., South End, Boston) and unload your merch at your table. Then you can find a parking spot once your merch is unloaded. See this page here for parking information (scroll to the bottom).

8:30 - 8:45	8:45 - 9:00	9:00 - 9:15	9:15 - 9:30	9:30 - 9:45	9:45 - 10:00	10:00 - 10:15	10:15 - 10:30
Pepperberry Crochet	nico nico	DISTRO.Y	BtheNV Designs	Lucid Studios	Wren Handmade	Bias Design	William Greenlaw
So Softies	Repeat Press	Craig Bostick/Emily Arkin	Rosie's Place	Crazy cakes	Foxy & Winston LLC	Rubytone	Imogene
Apple Scruffs	Boston Derby Dames	Beehive Kitchenware	Twigs and Heather	80 Grit Art	india*romeo	George Pfromm	Jenine Bressner
Art School Dropout	Solos Glass	Figs & Ginger	enfant-terrible	ex libris anonymous	devoted bee	Anna Built	Misshawlet
Soto Softies	Danmade Pottery	TADworks	Outside the Lines Studio	Sheriff Peanut	Vaya Bags	Twigs and Heather	Pinecone & Chickadee
Rainy Planet Press	Eames and Lola	Bread and Badger	Gold Dust Studio	applecart	My Favorite Mirror	Wolfie and the Sneak	Faux Taxidermy
Dick and Jane Letterpress	edesse designs	So Softies/M. Patrizio	Karalee Designs	be planted.	Fern Animals	SEIBEI	Katie Muth
Two Trick Pony/1600 Designs	mogo	Family Dinner For One	Apple Scruffs	mittenmitten	Nydam Press	Gammaraybots	Bill Pickles Dog Co.
Spot-On Designs	Glamourpuss Creations	Stitchy McYarnpants	STALE Printing	Scraps of Paper	Skeintily Clad	Ben Fino-Radin & Hilary Treadwell	The Candy Thief
Sewing Stars	skullknocker	Thimblewinder	Boston Area Rape Crisis Center	Reprodepot.com	Bang Bang You're Thread	Hilary Treadwell	Pear
Buckaroos	Albertine Press	viva ortegacy	Shellsbells/Miss Ruby West	social studies design	Heatherjeany	Fishcakes	Giant Dwarf
Happy Owl Glassworks	Huzzah Goods	Vonica Designs	Bias Design	Haptotrope	Sharp Shirter	imogene	Big brothers big sisters
			My Paper Crane			Teen Beat/Millushke

Random Craft Fair Tips

• Remember that we provide you with your table and two chairs. The table is 6-feet by 2.5-feet.

• The tables are, ya know, the lovely rented style. So bring a tablecloth of some sort if you want to pretty it up.

• Measure out the space you have been given and practice setting up. Think about whether everything on your table is easy to reach by you and your patrons.

• If you're feeling short on space, try to put out representative items rather than everything you have.

• Bring a partner to help deal with all the eager shoppers and to wo/man your table when you want to take a break.

• Bring lots of change. Make sure you bring what makes sense for your prices. Bring more than you need! Many people come right from the ATM with big `ol twenties. We suggest getting at least $200 worth of change.

• Suggested supplies to bring: plastic bags for purchases, packaging for fragile stuff, tape, scissors, sharpie, receipt book, calculator, extra price tags, apron for cash, business cards, mailing list sign-up, order forms if you run out of an item, tablecloth, signs.

• Bring snacks and water because you might be so busy that it's hard to get away from your table!

Tax Information

If you are selling items that are subject to Massachusetts sales tax, then you should be registered to collect sales tax. This is the case whether you live in MA or are coming from another state. Please have a look at the tax info. provided at the bottom of the Vendors-only page here:

This document will tell you what is taxable and what's exempt: http://www.dor.state.ma.us/publ/pdfs/sls_use.pdf

If you are not registered to collect sales tax in Massachusetts, you should do this online, print out the temporary certificate, and bring it with you on Saturday--just in case. In theory, state officials can come to craft fairs and ask people to present their sales tax registration. This has never happened at the Bazaar Bizarre in previous years and we've never seen it happen at other area craft fairs but apparently it can happen.

To get registered to collect sales tax, go to this URL and click "WebFile for Business": http://www.dor.state.ma.us

If this is the only craft fair you are going to do this year, you should be able to specify while going through this process that you only want to be able to collect sales tax for the month of December. And this way they'll only expect you to pay once.

If you don't want to have to deal with tacking sales tax onto every sale you make (and thus have to have lots of coins for change) you could keep track of your total taxable sales and just send in 5% of that.

The Mass Dept of Revenue phone number is 1-617-887-MDOR if you have questions.

Hotel Information for Out-of-Town Vendors