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First Event in 2010
This weekend was my first event of the year. I got to ease into the spring/summer sales season with a low-key outdoor market at a local elementary school. Take a peek at my overall set-up. After having had some larger spaces at various Christmas shows, it took me a bit of playing to fit everything on to one smaller table. It worked although I have some ideas for improvement. I brought all my gear in my little Honda Civic but when we took everything down, my hubby was on hand to help and he just pulled up the truck and we slid everything in there. Now, I wonder if he’ll let me borrow the truck one day when I have other shows to go to where I can’t count on him to help??? I’m dreaming, I know…. I don’t have help to set-up and take-down often because of course, while I’m about doing “my thing” hubby hangs out with the kids – which I’m forever grateful for.
We enjoyed a warm day with lots of sunshine. My kids came by a couple of times during the day and had fun with the bouncy castle and my boy especially enjoyed meeting the firemen and having a good climb in the fire truck. All in all, it was a great family event. Not necessarily the right market for my pieces but the day really did give me the chance to look over my finished jewelry inventory as it was all out in front of me and I managed to play with my set-up and all those things are important as I move along in the season. Take a look at my casual earring stand……. It’s full of fun and simple goodness – while, at the same time, I really saw that I need to fill out my inventory of the earrings made from the precious metals.
My centre pieces are my sterling silver necklaces – I love my focal pieces:
Last week I received an enormous amount of new rings (and I still managed to forget some critical sizes on my order). I received sterling silver, titanium, stainless steel, anodized aluminum, enamelled copper, pure copper, bright aluminum and niobium – these rings are really getting my creative juices flowing and I’ve just been scribbling out a new necklace design.
Next up is Fab Fair in Vancouver on Main Street at Heritage Hall. This event takes place on June 5th and 6th. Until then, I’ll keep plugging away with the new (and the old) rings and hopefully have a whole bunch of new things on hand.