Information for Vendors

Applications for the 2025 show will be sent in January, 2025.  You can view the 2024 Vendor Application , and the 2025 Vendor Application will also be posted in January, 2025.  Applications will be sent to: 

• Everyone who was a vendor in 2024.
• Vendors on the Waiting List . 
  
• Anyone who contacts me requesting a vendor packet anytime between last year's show and January, 2025.
  

The good news is we have a popular, well-attended show (about 200 to 250 visitors each year with 15 to 20 vendors), and many of our vendors say it's one of their favorites. The bad news is we always have more interested vendors than we have room for, and unfortunately that means we have to turn vendors away each year.

 Vendor booths are assigned in this order:
 

• First preference goes to vendors who attended last year, and they get "first dibs" on the booth location they had last year.
• Second preference goes to the Waiting List vendors.
• Additional vendors will be added to the Waiting List , in the order in which their registration is received. 
  

Vendor confirmations will be mailed in March, but you can check the Vendor List at any time to confirm that your application has been received.  I usually update this website every two or three weeks after the vendor packets are mailed, so don't panic if your name isn't immediately added to the list.
 
How to Get on The Waiting List
The only way to get on the Waiting List is to mail in an application.  You do not need to send in any money with the application, but you must send in an application so that we have all of the proper information and can easily contact you when there is an opening.  To receive an application please email Suzy Beggin Craft or print out the Vendor Application.  You may request an application at any time throughout the year, however applications are only mailed in January.

If you are already on the Waiting List you don't have to do anything from year to year to hold your position, but please do let me know if any of your contact information has changed.

Waiting List Policy
If you are on the Waiting List and contacted for an open spot your response choices will be:
 

• Yes! Yes! Hooray! Put me in the show! I want to be there!
• “Not this year, but keep me on the list.” These folks will be kept on the list, but anyone who is above the first vendor who gets in will be moved to the bottom of the list, anyone who is below the last vendor who gets in will keep their spot. So if the open spot goes to the vendor who is number 3 on the list then if vendors 1 or 2 who replied with “Not this year” they will be moved to the bottom, but vendors 4 and later who responded with "Not this year" will keep their position.
• No response. We will permanently remove vendors from the list if they don’t respond to our first offer of an open space. When open spaces are available I contact those at the top of the Waiting List by both email and regular US Mail, so if someone doesn’t respond to either method I am pretty confident that they are truly not interested. But please be sure I have your current contact information! The Waiting List is updated online frequently, so you can look to see who has been contacted so far. ("No Response" does not include vendors who respond with "Not this year." Replying with "Not this year" still counts as a response. This is to remove vendors who do not respond at all).

We think we have a fair and well-run show, but we are always happy to hear vendor and potential vendor comments and suggestions for improvements.  Thank you for your interest in our show!

Sales Tax
The sales tax is Cedarville, Illinois is 6.75%. 

If you have an Illinois IBT Number (Sales Tax Number), you should send in the tax collected from our show according to your regular tax schedule using your regular tax form.  If you do not have an Illinois sales tax number you can obtain a number by contacting the Illinois Department of Revenue at 800-356-6302 or at www.revenue.state.il.us. 

However, you do not need a sales tax number to participate, as I will give you a Special Event Report and Payment Coupon on the day of the event, or you can print out a 2024 Special Event Report and Payment Coupon, so that you can collect and pay your sales tax for the day without your own sales tax number.