Weekend Awesomeness...

#2 Granddaughter, me, Cindy G-H

Saturday was fabulous! The show was a huge success, and we had the best sales to date for my booth. Cindy was truly my right hand gal. She listened to my pitch for about ten minutes, and was completely competent to deal with customers on her own. She was a real pro, and I am so grateful that she offered to help in my booth.

I'd like to say I took loads of photographs, but we were still setting up the last of my inventory on Saturday morning before opening, when one of the vendors came into the booth and purchased a Nocturne Traveler. We were off to the races from there.

Our daughter-in-law and #2 Granddaughter came to see our offerings and thankfully, DIL took a photo of us. I'm so glad she did, because I never even thought of taking pictures after the show started. We were wonderfully busy.

Mid-morning, we were pretty busy when two ladies came into my booth with flowers. They asked if I was Donna, and said that these flowers were from my husband. I got a little teary-eyed through my excitement. I told them how he bought flowers for me for my first show forty years ago, and this was a complete surprise from my guy all these years later. (Of course, he's bought flowers for me in the interim, but not for shows.)

The Nocturne that we sold left a void in the center of my back wall display, so it was a perfect place to show off my flowers. We put a matching Kirby Crossbody/Bryn Clutch set next to the flowers, and it looked awesome. Again...no photos.

 

My BFF, Lee came to visit mid-afternoon and also brought a flowering kalancho potted plant for me. Another pleasant surprise to see her.

We stayed busy in our booth until about a half hour before closing. We had a chance to see the other vendors, and then packed up. It was a fast-paced, profitable, and great day. I'll definitely do this venue again next year. 

 

I do have inventory left, so I'll be posting those things over the next week to make it available for purchase. 

 

Setup Day...

 

I will add just a couple things on Saturday morning, but this is my basic layout for my booth on Saturday. I'll take my dress form with me tomorrow for displaying my embroidered pendants, and of course, my Square station will be on my checkout stand on the left side of my booth. I also have an assortment of new patterns and books that will go on the black shelf display on the right side of the booth. 

I had a new banner created for the back wall of my booth, but couldn't mount it as planned Friday. I'm taking pant hangers to put it in front of the black pipe and drape in the morning. (I know that's kind of cheesy, but didn't have the actual hangers that I should use. I'll have those ordered for next time. For now, I'll do what a few other vendors are doing and use pant hangers.

It's nice to have everything set up. Friday night will be for resting. I'll share more photos on Monday. Have a great weekend! Wish me luck! (wink)