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Our Christmas Show Booth | A Recap
Wow, this week was just a whirlwind. We returned from Christmas Village in Birmingham, Alabama, last Monday and it’s hard to believe we have been home for a week and are in full Christmas mode. Orders from the show will start shipping this week! I wanted to share some pictures of our booth so you can see some new goodies that we debuted at the show that are coming this next week to our website!
Oh, and as a side note, we are going to be selling our booth & checkout table. My husband and I built it in the Summer of 2010 and we have loved the display. We are trying to downsize just a bit with our inventory and supplies so if you are interested, please contact us!
Christmas Village Festival | Birmingham, AL Craft Show
Hello There! I just wanted to let you know we are currently showing our products in Birmingham, AL, at the Christmas Village Festival at the BJCC. These are just a few quick photos we took today!
It is a funny thought, though, that today is Halloween and we are at a Christmas show! Oh well! Hope you have a Fun and Happy Halloween!
Back to a better pace & cupcakes
Last week was one of those weeks- one of those busy, exhausting weeks! One that was just such a blur, I actually can’t even remember what happened from one day to the next – I was just operating in survival mode. The week prior, we had spent setting up and working our Spring show, Cottontails Village in Birmingham, Alabama.
{Our Booth}
{Our HollyDays Tree… my favorite part!}
{Party setup & coloring table for the kids}
{We’ll be putting our Easter clothing & stickers/tags on our website this week!}
Wow, I have to tell you, this time I was exhausted. I had some AMAZING wonderful help this year, too – My husband, Jen, Karan, my parents and my in-laws… A HUGE THANK YOU TO THEM! Doing the show for us, is basically setting up a 10×30′ STORE for 3 days and then to turn around and take it down come home and unload it again… wears me out just thinking about it! We were so honored and excited to take home the 1st place booth award!
As we were tearing down the booth on Sunday evening, we got the message that my sweet friend, Lacey, was having her baby. She was just at the show the day before, so it’s a good thing the baby waited another day or else we could have had more excitement at the show than we could have handled! We packed up, went home to drop off the trailer, said goodbye to my parents who were watching our daughter and headed out the door with one of our hospital door signs and went to the hospital and waited for the sweet baby. She was born right after 10:30pm. We went home a little after that to get our little one in bed. The next day, we visited the hospital again so we could see the baby. As you can see, my Karidyn is in LOVE with this sweet new friend, Layla Westyn.
She is already a best buddy of her older sister, Ava Greer.
After all, they’ve been friends since they could sit in my office floor and play and Karidyn could pull AG’s hair!
Anyway, let me get back on track… show, return, unpack, catch-up and then start working on the new show orders… whew! Yes, I’m tired, but feeling good that orders from the show are actually going to start going out TOMORROW! Yay! We have a ton ready, just ready to be packaged up and shipped out.
Well, I’m off to get working on some new projects and glad to finally be back to a {more} normal pace! Keep up with this week on our Blog, Facebook or Twitter… we’ll be giving away a SIGNED COPY of Jan Moon’s Southern Living Big Book of Cupcakes! {YUMMY!}
Working on our Show Booth
We’ve been busy working this weekend on our new show booth and boy, we are exhausted! Yesterday, we started painting it. My in-laws were in town, so my father-in-law helped us spray the booth.
It was a beautiful, hot day yesterday and we had just finished painting and doing the whitewash technique to these walls…
And it started to sprinkle… we started to worry… and it started to sprinkle harder… we started to hurry pulling pieces indoors… then it started to pour… we started running around like crazy folks trying to get everything out of the rain… we got the last piece out of the rain and… it stopped.
I promise it went from beautiful to a quick shower and sunny again within five minutes. Then the sky looked beautiful.
Then we started painting some more…
Once these walls were painted a black cat showed up… seriously, I think you don’t believe me, but I’m serious about this! We kept trying to get it to go home and it kept sneaking up on us. We turned our backs for a matter of seconds and when we looked back at the boards there were tiny paw prints across two of them. Please Note: no cat was harmed in this project, but I seriously think that he was pushing his luck with my husband and one of his lives. I didn’t take pictures of the paw prints… I wasn’t going to push my luck either. I had already laughed at him after the paint gun sprayed back at his face two times.
Today, we repainted the blue and the brown. Of course, after we painted the brown, the wind blew and got leaves and dirt on the paint. So after letting it dry, sanding it and repainting, we were done. Yes, the end is in sight.
I’m really excited about our booth. We have put a lot of work into in in hopes it will give us much better display space. I can’t wait to see the finished product.
Hope you have a great weekend.
Our Project
Want to know what we’ve been working on lately? It’s our Christmas Village craft show booth! We are getting a brand spanking new booth. My husband and I have been working and working and working… I can’t wait to show you some pictures of it… but until then, here’s the blueprints- HollyDays style! 
Hope you have a great Friday!
The Good, the Bad and the Gross
Just a warning, this isn’t going to be pretty. What a week it’s been. If you’ve wondered where we’ve been for the past 10 days, we’ve been busy getting the rest of our Cottontail’s Village orders out and prepping for our show we had this past weekend. We finished up, well 99.9% finished, the orders we received at Cottontails on or before last Wednesday. That was record timing: Our show finished on March 7, and ten days later, all the orders were out. It was even our best spring show ever. We were happy.
On top of all the orders, we had to prepare for our Bunnies and Blossoms show in Anniston, Alabama. It took a lot of late nights/early mornings, but it got done! I don’t think I went to bed before 1:00 a.m. for a week. We almost sold out of all our shirts we had at Cottontails, so we were expecting big things from our upcoming show. We were prepared.
We left at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, set up all day and were ready for a preview party for the Junior League that evening at 6:00 p.m. By 6:00, we were exhausted. We have never done a show where we had to set up and then sell stuff the same day! Here’s our booth. We didn’t get it 100% finished, but it looked ok. (Notice: the pom tissue balls were missing- not enough time to do them– they were piled up in the corner behind the curtains) But… We were satisfied.
The show started at 6:00 p.m. and lasted until 8:00. Two sales… That’s ok, because we we knew more were coming the next couple of days when the show was open to the public. Friday turned out to be not so good with sales, but we were ok with that too, because we knew people were working and the sales would come on Saturday. We were ok.
Saturday came and after being open several hours with no sales, a lady came into our booth and asked for a garbage can. Hope you are ready for what’s to come because we certainly were not… before we could pull out the can behind the checkout counter, the little girl threw up in our booth on the grass… really. It was definitely a first for us. We rushed to get paper towels, baby wipes, anything that she could use to clean up her child and the floor. Well, the girl’s face was cleaned, but they took off before we even knew it and there we were, standing dumbfounded. (I was hoping she would have cleaned or attempted to clean up the mess, but she did not. She came back to purchase something, but I think it was because she felt obligated to, so I told her she didn’t need to. Hope I did the right thing.) I was a wreck.
Things appeared to get better. I had my first sale about 15-20 minutes later. I was going to get my daughter’s picture taken with a real bunny for Easter… standing in line the little girl next to me had an accident on the floor… really. I was amazed.
I do have to say the girls in the Junior League were awesome! They were so super sweet to all of us and they were very organized. We do truly appreciate them letting us participate in the show. We are thankful.
It was truly a crazy weekend. We are so glad to be home. Working on orders. Just hoping we covered our expenses for the trip. Everyone we talked to said they were in the same boat as us sale-wise. I guess you win some and you lose some. That’s business.
We have some exciting things coming this week! Plus… some cute bunny shirts on sale since we have plenty left over! 
Have a great day!
Thank You
Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth at Cottontails Village this weekend! We had such a fabulous time! We are going to be VERY busy filling orders over the next couple weeks! Here are more photos from the show.
Easter Bunny and Cross Shirts
Our Personalized Clothing and Easter Bunny Shirts
The front view of our booth
Our Tissue Poms! We had a ton of people ask us if we sell these.
We’ll be posting a tutorial for these in the future.
Cross dresses
Easter Bunny Shirts
Our show buddies, Taylor Candles. They have the best smelling candles!
It was such a pleasure to meet and do business with those of you who were able to attend.
Now off to work on those orders!
Hope you have a great day!
Cottontail’s Village
What a day! We had such a FABULOUS day at Cottontail’s Village in Birmingham, AL at the BJCC. We enjoyed meeting so many of our customers face to face today! Here are some photos from today.
We’ll post some more photos in the coming days. Hope you have a great weekend!
Hopping Down the Bunny Trail!
Today we are loading up our trailer to take our stuff to the Birmingham Civic Center for our show this weekend. It is freezing! It really is 36 degrees outside. Believe me, I’d much rather be doing this in 70 degree weather and if that’s asking too much, I’ll take 50. Oh well, we’re bundled up and loading up now. Just wanted to take a quick break to officially invite you to the show. We’ll be setting up all day tomorrow. I’m hoping to be able to post some sneak peak photos for you tomorrow evening. Hope to see you at the show!
Have a great day!
Getting Ready for the Show
Here’s a sneak peak at what we’ve been working on for our upcoming shows. A lot of time goes into getting the displays, samples and pricing signs ready for the sale! Here’s our new plate, tray and placemat display!
Look at all the designs for plates! Plates are great gifts for children and trays are awesome to give to newlyweds or as a housewarming gift!
Matching Plate & Placemat sets
We have two shows in March!
Cottontail’s Village Arts, Crafts and Gifts Show
Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham Jefferson Civic Center
March 5-7, 2010
Friday 10am-8pm, Saturday 10am-7pm, Sunday noon-5pm
Bunnies & Blossoms Spring Market {By the Junior Leage of Anniston-Calhoun}
Anniston, Alabama
Anniston City Meeting Center
Friday, March 19 from 11am to 8pm
Saturday, March 20 from 9am to 5pm
Come out and see us! Now, off to work some more! Hope you have a great day!
