Preparing for the show

Everything I've been doing for the last two months has been leading up to this event. I booked the event knowing that I would really be pushing it to have enough product for the show and subsequent buyers. Wow, what a wild ride. I was making scarves up until the night before the event. Scarves were everywhere!


This is my second daughter surrounded by scarves in various processes of assembly. My girls were a wonderful help to me during this busy time! They are also quite fun to work with if you couldn't tell. We all worked round the clock for two weeks! Busy, busy, busy!


I also spent quite a lot of time out in the garage painting items for my booth. I am a girl with a vision and that vision had to be just so. When all was said and done this is what we came up with.


Those doors may look old but they are not. I got new doors from the local home depot and distressed them myself. I bought various door handles and knobs from a couple of local stores. See the vanity? Yeah, also NOT old. Several layers of paint on that thing and recover the seat you'd think it came from an antique store.

After the painting, I needed a few more touches. The picture frames are from my good friend at Fanciful Frames and the gorgeous photos are from Haleigh Rohner Photography. I borrowed the divider from another friend, got a knockoff steam trunk, a couple of odds and ends from around the house, and voila! My booth!

Didn't know quite what to expect going into this. Who does this? Goes from making scarves for fun to designing and filling a booth for a full out wholesale trade show? Oh, ME!