Booth Display Dry Run (and more doughnuts)
8 Mar
Tentative Booth Display
This weekend, a great deal of my time was spent on readying my booth display, and I successfully finished everything on my to-do list, including painting and attaching the little wooden strips I’ll be using as mini shelves for my earrings, sewing the table skirt, cutting poster board to cover the unsightly underbelly of my display, and other miscellaneous tasks. The picture above shows the booth without the poster board side covers attached to the table risers, and, obviously, with none of my pieces displayed, but you can still get an idea of where I’m going with this.
Mermaid Lagoon Doughnut Earrings
My tentative plan is to fill the white cork board area with earrings (propped up on the wooden shelves) and necklaces and bracelets (pinned to the cork board and allowed to hang). The very top shelf of the table risers will showcase the small selection of dollhouse miniatures I’ll be bringing to the show, and the green area to the right of the table risers will house the mailing list/business card station, adjustable rings, which will be propped up in little ramekin dishes filled with white or green sand, magnets, and maybe some hair accessories. I still haven’t decided what I’ll be hanging in the little white tree, but I’m sure I’ll find some odds and end pieces to display there.
Orange Sherbet Doughnut Earrings
I spent a good amount of time at the craft store trying to decide on an appropriate glue for affixing wood to painted cork out of the eighty billion or so options, including special glue for sticking crap onto rubber flip flops. Really? We need a special glue for that? I finally opted for Elmers’ Super Duper OMG! Glue or something like that, mainly because it had a picture of the Elmer’s cow, which normally looks rather sedated (or perhaps high on glue fumes), only it had been transformed into a blue, steroidal monster with rippling muscles that was snorting fire out of its flaring nostrils, all of which did wonders for inspiring my confidence in its supernatural gluing abilities.
What role does Spidey have in all this?
I’m afraid Spidey is banned. This being my first STL show, it’s strictly professional–provocatively posed super heroes not allowed
Maybe you could just use the tree to feature a few of your favorite items? When I’m in craft-show overwhelm mode (as a shopper), I tend to just look at whatever’s most eye-catching at a booth (or whatever’s not crowded!). An ornamented tree would definitely catch my eye and make me want to know what was on it.
That’s a great idea!! I just discovered that I have a small collection of individual charms, and I hadn’t made any plans to display them, so it looks like they’re going on the tree
Yay!