Holiday Market Buzz

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Great art, bad photo, complete with my reflection in the glass. But I don't have time to take the glass out and photograph it properly. The art is about 7-1/2" square and the frame is 10" square. I'll have to price it when I get to the show to see what I sell this size for but I think it's around $40.

Remember my enthusiasm for the Junior League of Rochester's Holiday Market this weekend? Double it! I promise you it will be worth the $5 admission.

I knew the place was going to look cool because they hired a decorator. So it looks like a real trade show - and I mean that in a good way. Each booth has a backdrop of green curtains with a white panel in the center - and 3' high green curtains separating the booths. We each have a large white sign with black lettering with our company name and hometown. I'll take pictures today.

If you need more enticement, a list of vendors is here. (Click Fundraising at the top, then Holiday Market.) I'm right next to my friend Kathy - Grandma Hattie's Tea Party - she makes all kinds of cool home accessories out of old china and other dishes. My friend Rachel is near me - she makes beautiful candles, of which I intend to buy one today.

I saw that Enchanted Rose Garden has a booth but they were just setting up when I left. (I can't bear to think what my space at that store looks like. Stopping by to restock has been on my to-do list every weekend - or on the way home from work on Thursdays. When it comes time to go, I just don't feel I can spare the time away from my worktable. But I need to get the summer pins & Sticky Notes - FlipFlops style - out of there and get some fall/winter themed things set up. It's mid-October for cryin' outloud.)

The show is at what used to be called the Dome Arena, now called The Fair & Expo Center. I know there's an entrance from East Henrietta Road, not sure if the Calkins Road entrance still exists or not. I don't think I've been to the Dome itself since I saw Peter Frampton there a billion years ago!

I have more to say about it but I need to make 8000 more Sticky Notes before I leave for the show at 8:30. I feel like I spend every waking moment making stuff yet I never have enough inventory. I have to keep reminding myself, that's because I'm selling it. It's a good thing!

And yesterday was no exception. Just 2 hours before we left to set up my booth, the owner of Artizanns, the beautiful gallery-like store in Naples called to order 2 dozen Sticky Notes. Her timing really was perfect though because I was going to the post office on the way to the show anyway.

I have dozens and dozens of Sticky Notes assembled, I just to need to add the embellishments. I finished up a bunch last night and just now found more in one of my to-do boxes that are finished. I somehow missed them when I was separating out the done from the not done yesterday.

Anyway. Enough babbling. Time to get busy.

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