Juried Craft Fair Returns to Columbia, SC

By Mike Switzer

Published November 23, 2016 at 5:25 AM EST

Eight years ago, our next guest decided to start a juried craft fair bringing in artisans from all over South Carolina and the Southeast to showcase their creations in our capitol city. This year a jury of six people vetted more than 300 applications to narrow the list of vendors to the final 95.

Mike Switzer interviews Debi Schadel, founder of Crafty Feast, coming to Columbia on December 11^th.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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