- So are you a Jewish girl?
- Uh, yeah.
- Mazel Tov. So I'm a Jewish girl that
manufactures Christmas ornaments.
- I was gonna say, hey.
- Well, you think, you think I'm not gonna
jump on the bandwagon?
Hello.
(jazzy Christmas music)
- [Man] You only have two months a year
- Okay, so I have two months a year, but
nine months go into this product, right?
I set up the booths in January after I do inventory.
I think it's like 19,000 a booth, so, you know,
before you go into it, like last year, I probably had
over 100,000 dollars into all the booths I had,
prior to selling item one.
But you have to have enough money to
pay your sales people.
So you have to start out with money!
And so it's paying all that out.
So it's very very stressful, and we don't know
what happens 'til the end.
And if I don't sell it to you and him, who
am I going to sell it to?
(customer mumbles)
I do.
I have several pigs with wings.
It was a very very interesting story,
I went to Bali on my honeymoon,
and my husband was the chef of the Four Seasons.
He was offered a job there, as a chef of the Four Seasons.
So could you imagine like calling your Jewish mother
and saying, oh, by the way, I'm moving here permanently.
I'm not coming back.
(upbeat Christmas music)
I'm an expat wife stuck in Bali, and I don't know what
to do, and I can't sit around the house, and I had no
friends, so I decided that I would go into some
sort of business, which, of course, I thought I
was gonna make a million dollars the first container.
And we lived in Ubud, we built a house in Ubud,
which is where all the carvers are in the town above it,
called Tegallalang, and that's how I ended up
in the wood business.
My first set of something that's a new design
I'll do 1000 of, and then if it's something that
really really works and I've seen that it's
checked in my stores, then I start going in
very big production, like for example, Pinocchio,
it's 4000 pieces a year that I'll produce.
That little taxi over there I do around 4000 a year.
Over here the metallic leafed wood is two for five, the
painted ones are two for ten.
Let me give you a shoplifting bag, you can
pick whatever you want.
I always hand everybody a shoplifting bag.
I mean, that's my thing.
I'm like, come, take a shoplifting bag, and they'll
say no, no, no, I'm like, I'm not marrying you,
I'm just asking you to take a bag.
Good, here's a little shoplifting bag, you gotta take it.
Because if you take a bag, you might fill it up, and then
I'll be like, fill it up more, come on, fill it up more.
Alright, come in, jump in, let's get
body heat going on here.
What's cookin' by you, dancer?
I am always interested in what's going on with the
people that come in my booth.
There's always a line, there's always full of
people looking, seeing what the commotion is,
people are helping me up the ladder, they're
pushing my ass up there to get that because they
have to have that piece.
The smaller you get, the more expensive it gets.
- Oh, actually?
- Yeah, yeah, because it's harder to make things small.
Uh-huh, I'll take everything but your first born.
Not interested in children.
A lot of people come back for that.
They like the interaction.
It's not a serious place, Monkey Business.
Monkey Business is about being happy; it is about joy.
I think it's really important to have these kind of markets,
because I'm tactile.
I could never buy something online.
A lot of people do, but I need to touch things.
I'm tactile.
I don't know how the rest of the world is,
or maybe just people from my generation,
but I need to touch it and smell it.
It's like being with another human being, you know?
You need to have that feeling.
It's got pheromones my stuff, what can I tell you?
Okay, you get to carry it.
I'm very kind.