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!
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 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!
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!
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!
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!
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