Halloween ROX!

Halloween was a blast for me last weekend. It was a fun-filled Saturday with lotsa goodies, yummy muffins, awesome coffee, cute pumpkin lights, a lost bunny and a-not-so-scary grim reaper. We, vendors celebrated Halloween with A Shopaholic's Den at The Crest, 3 Two Square and of course with lotsa happy shoppers too :).

Both ASD and Fashionista's Bazaar definitely deserves the thumbs up in this event. I don't know about you, but organizing this bazaar in an excellent air conditioned area, good lighting, squeaky clean washrooms and simple yet 'champion' sound system filling up the place with happy-cheery music, what more can you ask for? I was a happy vendor there. Having said that, and not starting any bitchy ranting session, I noticed that some of the vendors were having some difficulties in finding their own booths. Perhaps we are being pampered by other organizers who will label the booths with our names/booking numbers but it will definitely minimize the hassle of having to refer to the floor plan and list of vendors which were printed on A4 size papers, pasted at the entrance of the bazaar.

Besides that, some of the customers and friends pointed out that the place was quite difficult to locate and there was no clear instructions indicating the location of the bazaar. Being a first timer visiting The Crest, I was a little bit lost too that morning but having my 'walking GPS' aka the boyfriend around, it was not an issue for me *winkz*. Maybe some banners or flyers might help in this case :).

Vendors or I would prefer to refer them as young entrepreneurs are getting more creative by the day. Throwing contest to win tickets to the All American Reject (AAR) concert and displaying their own custom made halloween props was a success in drawing attention from the crowd. Bravo to the girls from Bikini Republic! Check out the pictures below ya...I absolutely adore...no..I fell in LOVE with the cute white casper look-alike dollie but too bad it ain't for sale :(. Another excellent win-win cooperation I have witnessed in this event was the participation from Bad Ass Coffee. Not only they promoted their delicious coffee, bagels and doughnuts, they also provided their lunch-in service for the vendors. Imagine this => Bad Ass guy walk around with the menu, vendors order their lunch and wola! lunch will be delivered to your booth...steaming hot. One word, brilliant.

Although the crowd kinda dispersed during noon time (no thanks to the rain!) and I just about managed to cover the rental. All in all, it was a rather good day. I will definitely return for the next ASD event *Griinz* To my regular customer (you know who you are), thank you for making time to visit me at the event. And I hope you love all the dresses you bought :D. If you are reading this, remember to get your fishie discount card from me next time...I will safeguard it for now ya...eheheheheh :P.

Wokay...pictures time!

Da place!

Floor plan & List of vendors

Squeaky clean washrooms (p/s: this is the gents & I did not snoop in to take the pic)

Cute props

'Champion' sound system

Bikini Republic

Da Witch!

Da Oh-So-Cute Dollie!

I see 3 arses here...do you? Ehehehe

Bad Ass guy taking order

Costumes! Costumes!!!

Da Lost Bunny!

Da Lost Grim Reaper!

Pumpkin!

Wuuurve,

Kairi + Peanut Butter

It's a SpOoOky Oooky shopping spree

Yes...you are right we are gonna celebrate Halloween in a bigger and louder way this year, of cos with goodies, colours and everything nice! *WaahahahAHAAH*

Come join us at the ASD Halloween party happening at The Crest, 3 Two Square. If you need more information or the map to this party, please go here
http://www.ashopaholicsden.com/topic/events/halloween/

A Fish I Like will be at booth # 69, remember to drop by and bring along your fishie discount card ya!

*Mwaack*

Kairi + Peanut Butter

How was your weekend?

'How was your weekend?' ehehehe mine was good...could be better though...but it's all good :D

My weekend was spent at the LelongLelong bazaar in Asia Cafe SS15, the weather was suprisingly kind...no rain..no thunderstorm...no heat stroke...OK rite? The booths are covered with canopies with only a few left unshaded but a little bit of sun tanning is healthy I reckon :P There were a lot of familiar faces so it practically felt like gathering of vendors for me...I guess I can say that this bazaar is getting substantial support from us.

The organizer is briliant in securing Asia Cafe as the venue, the place is strategically located, visible for pedestrians and students are seen flooding the place all the time (I see the same customers returning to this place for 2 days in a row, taking their time browsing and surveying the goodies and pricing) With this kind of visibility and with the power of WOM (word of mouth), getting good response from customers is a breeze compared to some bazaars which are hidden in some buildings *thumbs up for Biatch Bible*

Though the place was swarmed with people, sales did not come easy. With mostly customers being students, they were excellent in their negotiating skills...better than me when I was a student donkey years ago AHAHAHAH!

For this bazaar, I made a very last minute booking, so I was not given much choice for the booth selection. I got the last booth...so I took it without checking the floor plan. Came that Saturday morning, I wanted to dig a hole and just disappear beneath my booth when I saw my very-near-just-opposite neighbour was one of the big players in vintage clothing...NoOo...I was dejected. Looking at their well equipped, full range of vintage and crazy pricing...I felt like a tiny ant, just about to be squashed. Well, I don't know how and I don't know why but I survived. In fact, I dare say that my sales was better than theirs. Although it doesn't mean anything to them (they didn't look like they care), most probably they were being invited to participate in the bazaar for FREE and they have gotten their return of investment long ago but I felt good. I realized that it was silly of me to be afraid of them. Afterall, we are all vendors.

Like many other bazaars these days, LelongLelong is also adopting the green factor which is to encourage no usage of plastic bags. Unfortunately, many vendors were still using plastic bags, even when clearly some customers were already bringing their own eco-friendly bags or carrying shopping bags, big enough to fit a house! I wish vendors will take a moment to reflect on our role in supporting this go green policy and not just faking it solely for the credit of their names.

That's all on my little unofficial post mortem...Sorry folks, no pictures this round, my photographer ran away to compete for his paintball tournament >.<

Next up, watch out for a big SpOoOky event end of this month.

*Mwack*

Kairi + Peanut Butter

It's a LelongLelong weekend!

Have you ever been to a cafe for bazaar? Well I have not so I am definitely looking forward for this weekend's LelongLelong bazaar organized by Biatch Bible (kewl name eh...?) And I know my breakfast, lunchie and dinner will be 'just around the corner' which makes things so much easier for me especially when I need to man the booth at the same time ^_^

I will be at Booth #5, so come over for shopping or for drinks or for mee kolok or pizza or..or..or...there is so many yummylicious food there!!! MUHUHUHU (diet plan is gonna go down the drain babe =_=)

I will also be sharing the booth with my bestie who will be selling leather handbags (Shisso Kawa - you can view the bags from my previous post). Vintage and leather bags...what more can you ask for...ehehe

Can't wait to see you peeps this weekend!

For more information on LelongLelong bazaar and the map, please check out http://www.biatchbible.com/

*Mwacccck*

Kairi + Peanut Butter

The World is My Oyster...but where?

Where to now? *teeeheee*

Maybe Bangsar again? Maybe we will give it a shot in Subang SQ? Curve? Oh, I have a briliant idea (at least I think it is a rather briliant one :P) which is to organize a junk sale right in front of my house...obviously that will not happen, not unless I feel like freaking out my parents and giving Peanut Butter a chance to slobber up everyone. So yeah, I guess for now I will need to think of the possible bazaars which A Fish can go where no parents will freak, no excessive saliva from Peanut Butter and with lotsa lotsa happy people shopping for happy things...YAY!

But where??? O_o

Any ideas? Anyone? Help me out here and leave me some comments. In time like this, I reckon more brains will work better compared to the one sad brain I am depending on...which is kinda sluggish now (imagine => looks kinda green and slimy). Well, if you are shy, then PM me on bloggerunited or email me >.<

And before I forget, to all Muslim friends, have a wonderful Hari Raya and non-Muslim ones, enjoy this looong lovely weekend ya!

*MwAaaaah*

Kisses + SlUuRrrps from Kairi & Peanut Butter

I will try not to make this sound like an award speech ya >.<

But Thank You Thank You and Thank YOOOOUUU for making it happened last weekend. For those who came all the way to show some love and support...as lame as it may sound, no words can describe how much it meant to me *sniiff*...REALLY...and for those who came just to say *HI*...you guys rock too!

You know how it feels when you think that one phase of your life ended and another one begins, you are quite certain that you will have a different path and you will pretty much move on, make new friends...let the whole cycle thingy begins? Well last weekend's bazaar has proved me wrong indeed, people whom I think will never cross my path again, not only did they turn up, but they were also being so supportive at what I am doing and I even closed some sales from them (Yesh I gave discounts ahahaha). To me, this is effort, no matter if they are living in town, around the corner of Bangsar mall or are just 2 miliseconds walk away.

And Thank You Thank You and Thank YOOOOUUU to Your Shopping Kaki and Fashion Clicks for adding us into your big happy family of bloggers! Watch out for more updates on these review blogs...we are taking in by storm babeh!

Your Shopping Kaki: http://yourshoppingkaki.blogspot.com/ (We are one of the links on the right sidebar blogrolls. Category is Vintage)

Fashion Clicks: http://fashion-clicks.blogspot.com/2009/09/friday-shopping.html

p/s: Guys, I know I suck big time keeping in touch...my bad...won't do it again...me proomise....me good now...

*Mwacck + Kisses + Sluuurps*

Luv,

Kairi + Peanut Butter

It's a lOooOng weekend babeh!

Yes...that's right babeh...it's gonna be another loooong weekend coming right up! *teheee*

And for those who are in town...it means another good reason for shopping spree! (I know...we girls will come up with any excuse just to pamper ourselves >.<)

So do drop by at A Fish I Like's booth this weekend (5th - 6th Sept) from 11am - 7pm. Don't worry even if it's not for shopping, just shout a big loud *HI* to us...we always like to make new friends...*Mwaaaack*

2 cents from A Fish

If you were to ask me how does it feel like being a vendor? Having an online business? I would say it's bitter sweet baby...

It's sweet when you see that people are happy wearing, flaunting, twirling in the dresses you sold to them, to see that your blog clicks are increasing gradually even by the minuscule of RM0.001 cent *_* but then it can be quite a hard blow when you close your accounts at the end of each bazaar realizing that not only you are unable to cover your rental for the weekend...in fact you are making a loss (Haiiikssss!) I don't take failures very well....sigh...

The experience I had in Square Market Bazaar was well..bitter sweet but it was all worthwhile...

During that short weekend, I have customers complimenting that I really know how to talk..to persuade (ahem...thanks to my excellent customer service background in previous company and well..I can be a smooth talker if I want to eheheheh ^_^) And many of them were very encouraging...quickly labeling me as 'a very enterprising young lady' and being courageous enough to try breaking the conventional perception of us vendors as lowly educated, simple-minded or from the 'low-class' group. There was also an incident that almost moved me to tears when a customer gently squeezed me by my arm...telling me how much she loves that dress she tried on but it was a little too tight for her and she is certain that I will be able to succeed in this business of mine, wishing me the best of luck before walking away. I guess these little gestures count for me...a lot! And these are my reasons for not quitting.

"The organizer always wins"...interesting heh? This is a question that a vendor threw to us at the closing of last week's slow weekend. Believe me, this organizer is not some sort of scam and I am not starting any bitchy-ranting here...this is just my 2 cents worth.

I am still a newbie in this bazaar thingy but I have seen and heard a lot of vendors expressing their dissatisfaction over these organizers who are the only few players in this scene. I have witnessed poor promotion planning whereby there was no banners to be seen around the bazaar area, no flyers, email or SMS blast of communication to reach the buying crowd. There was also unreasonable rules and regulations being put to vendors, for instance of only providing ONE chair for each booth, failed in being a little less rigid on the rule to a vendor who did not bring her own chair...I am not saying that this vendor is not to be blamed but what's done is done and she forgot to bring her own chair, can't there be a work-around for this instead of having her half-sitting, half squatting on her own luggage? How hard is it to politely remind this vendor to not repeat this mistake or give a stern warning that there will be no next time in doing a favor for her...we are talking about a chair...how blardy hard is it to find a chair in a shopping mall? But noooo...the organizer made its (pointless - in my opinion) stand, successfully sending a clear message of don't-mess-with-me strict organizer but it has also successfully created an impression of a popular bazaar with vendors sitting on the floor or sharing chairs in a high profile shopping mall...get it? Also, vendors are only given the option of either having one clothes rack and a table or 2 clothes racks with no table and the place given for each vendor can actually accommodate more than that. I fully understand and more than willing to cooperate when it comes to say cleanliness of the venue, not taking up other vendor's allocated space, etc but gawd...let it be reasonable!

Organizers and vendors relationship is interdependent so why can't we work together to achieve a win-win situation? Having an organizer which takes care of issues with the bazaar venue management and secure crowd to come for the bazaar with proper promotion and communication and we as vendors having a place to market our items, make sales or just having a place of opportunity to shout out to all the nice people out there that we exist, our blogs exist, to proudly promote our own online business or physical stores.Or is this just me and my defining bimbo moment...?

Me & my happy customers ^_^

A fishie weekend again!

Miss us? Then head over to Bangsar Village 2 this weekeed! We will be participating in the Square Market bazaar from 15th - 16th Aug (11am - 7pm) >.<

Remember to spot for A Fish and drop by to visit ya!

Have a fishie weekend peeps *SMmmWAaaccck*

A fishie weekend!

Yeshi...yeshi yeshi...this is going to be our first bazaar and we are sooo excited about it! Are you? Like we promised, there are gonna be lotsa treasures for you peeps :) NOW are you excited????!!!

Do visit us at 3K this weekend ya (1 - 2nd Aug)...oh, we are at booth no.12!

Mwaaack~~~

*Disclaimer - No fishes will be harmed during the bazaar*