Archive for May, 2008

It took six hours to get our crate back. Frankly, we were thrilled that our crate came back to the booth in one piece. We saw a couple of crates that belonged to other companies (that were the same style), and they were smashed up pretty badly. I don’t recommend our crate, and we would [...]

I wanted to work on the June style post, but I can’t find the skirt that I wanted to include. Somebody blogged about some skirts recently (within the last 2 weeks or so), and they were from a smaller, independent shop. They were all different, but most had a design going vertically down the front center. I thought I remembered some owls or another sort of folksy pattern […]

Yesterday, I talked about setting up. Today, I’ll go into details about what it was like being an exhibitor and what the show was like. I started my business in 2005, but this was our first time doing the show. Unfortunately, from what I hear it was pretty slow this year (blame the economy). Still, [...]

Well, there I am, looking relatively collected and rested. It took a lot to get to that point though! I was going to write everything in one post and subdivide it into three parts (setup, the show, after the show). The whole recap was getting really loooong though, so I’m splitting it up into three [...]

While in New York, I did something I thought I’d never do. I bought a pair of Crocs. I didn’t wear them during the show, but I had them on at all other times. Comfy. Brandon made fun of me mercilessly.