booth at the Gladstone

Sorry for my absence these last couple of days. Before the show, things were just too hectic to blog and after the show I was just too tired to blog. MAN I'm tired. Like, new baby tired. Sheesh. 

Anyhow, I wanted to let you know how it went. Here's what my booth setup looked like: taadaaa! I'm happy with how it looked. Fun and colourful and lots of inviting product. 

Though I'm a little on the fence about the teddy bear. He's a last minute addition, and maybe a bit too cutesy, but I needed a way to show how the drooler bibs looked when in use. They just look like weird little triangles on the table, and people generally speaking need to be shown how things are going to look if they are at all transformed by being on a three dimensional body. Anyhow, I think for next time I'll take a really nice picture of one on the baby wearing one, and blow it up to an 8 x 10 and put it in a frame. Because as much as I like bears, I think the teddy looks a little twee. What do you think? Picture? Teddy? I'd love some opinions. 

And here is my lifesaver, my fairy god mother, my beautiful assistant, Farihah. She and I have worked retail together before I had the Baby and have stayed in touch and when I put a desperate plea out over facebook for a helper/box schlepper she agreed to come along. And guys, I COULD NOT have done it without her. She cut the trips up and down the stairs at the Gladstone hotel in half, was an amazing salesperson (though I already knew that) and generally saved my bacon. I was so tired in the last hour of the sale (from 10 - 11pm) that I was unsure if I was making sense when I talked any more, and she kept assuring me that I was. Also, she totally kept me awake on the drive home. (Didn't get home and into bed until 1:00am) If I hadn't had someone to talk to, I'd have just had to pull over in a car pool somewhere off the highway and go to sleep.

Anyhow, it was a good night. The traffic was reasonable, and lots of lovely friends dropped by to say hello, which was really great. And there were a lot of other really cool vendors too. I was too busy with my own booth to walk around and take pictures, which I really should have done, but I'll try to do it next time I do a sale (that'll be the 17th, at Movies and Makers) so I can blog about some other people's cool stuff as well.

It was funny, I really busted my ass to make new and exciting stuff (bags, pillows, wallets, etc.) and despite all that, I mostly just sold bibs. People like the bibs, so I'm not complaining. Also, this time the big seller was Mr. T. I totally sold out of the Mr. T bibs and I don't have any A-Team fabric left. Here's hoping I can find some more before the next sale. 

And now, for no reason at all, without even a segue here's a picture of the boys.

Oh yeah, I do have a reason. Because they are adorable, that's why. I'm their mom, I don't need any other reason. 

Comments

[Marcia Van Drunen]

Yep, totally loved he last pic. Your boys ARE adorable! And as a segue, n 8 x 10 of your cute, cute boy in a drooler bib would ROCK. I think you should have maybe THREE pics of the boys totally loving on your great stuff (like a quilt or maybe a tote over the shoulder with a foam chainsaw). Indeed.