Booth-Round 2

Got the booth at market all set up today!  Now we are ready for business,
in the morning, bright and early at 8:30!  I will let you know how it
goes...wish me luck

sheltongail@hotmail.com

Market Prep

Getting things together for market...this is a banner that
will advertise me!  as an artist who can make appearances
in their stores.  I am adding this aspect this time to my marketing
efforts.  I hope to be able to schedule some appearances in other
stores, demonstrating watercolor painting, bringing samples of my
work, etc.

And this is the new "Texas" bag...the design features the
Alamo, the Texas flag,and cowboy boot, a bluebonnet, and an armadillo. 
Having grown up in Texas, I am
more than familiar with all these things! 
As children, our parents always took us at Easter time to have pictures made
sitting in the bluebonnet fields.  I chased lots of armadillos with my brother in
the hill country around San Antonio.  I owned several pair of cowboy boots...in
fact, I was on the dance line in high school, and we dressed like the Kilgore Rangerettes,
in red, white, and blue with white cowboy boots!
AND, my first job after high school involved working downtown at the
Alamo!  I guess I am still "Texas" at heart...but my Louisiana roots are strong
now too.  I guess I can love them both!

sheltongail@hotmail.com

 

Booth Done

First of all, let me say these pics were taken with my
phone...sorry they are blurry.  I will take my
camera with me tomorrow!  This is the big door
display with all the bags.

Seen from the side...my booth at the Cash and Carry
section of the Dallas Gift Market

I am on the corner of the second row of the giant room .  There are
probably 200 vendors in this room alone, and over in the World
Trade Center, there are several hundred more!
200,000 buyers are supposed to come through here before
next Monday!  So, surely I can sell SOMETHING!

more tomorrow....it starts at 8:30 in the morning

sheltongail@hotmail.com

Countdown to Dallas

Some of the window chalkboards, waiting to be packed up



More waiting to be packed....



The one in the front has some cowboy boots on it...it will sell first!

And all the bags (1000 of them!) have to have tags tied on...

These are the GHS Enterprises tags I had printed. 

I said I was busy packing things up for the Dallas
wholesale show...well, here is
the proof!  I thought I would take a couple of pics of some
of it waiting to be packed up for the 5 hour trip.  I have ordered
some clear wrap that will wrap all the breakable items
(glass windows, etc), and I will load those in my
Suburban.  The booth set up will
be loaded in a U-Haul trailer that I will pull behind me,
along with all of the canvas bags that are in boxes. 
Some of my sweet employees are tagging all the bags,
even as I speak here (they took some home to work on!) 
I am still in the process of making some neat
one-of-a-kind pieces to take as well.  And this weekend,
I hope to pick up some unusual antique items to go
along with all this vintage-looking stuff.  The countdown
is definitely on...but I will be
ready!

Dallas Wholesale Market   January Show  Jan 15th-22