Noblesville Garden Tour show!

So thanks a zillion to Greg Knipe, aka Retrogee, for sending me an invite to this show, because it was flippin' awesome! First of all, the weather actually behaved for us, which is amazing considering the crazy weather we've had here in Indiana the past weeks.

My day started at 5:30am, with me running around the house in a frantic mess(this is not unusual haha!). But being that I didn't get but maybe 1 hour of sleep the night before, my brain wasn't doing what I was telling it to, so I was a real M E S S. Tore up my studio looking for some last minute things to pack up and that one thing I was SURE I would forget, but didn't exactly know what it was yet-fun stuff.

We finally arrived at our beautiful Garden to set up, after being lost for an hour(ahem, in my defense, my hubby was holding the map-not at fault here!). And after I setup my table so nice and perty, I attempted to help Adam put up the Shade Canopy-that was a sight I'm sure! Every friggin' time we got one pole in the right hole, another one popped out. Arghh! It was SO frustrating! Then I look at the box again and it reads "E-Z up Canopy"...........Yeah RIGHT! There was nothing E-Z up about that thing! So after struggling for close to 30 minutes, our neighbor vendor gave us a hand. With us 3 and a lot of duct tape we finally got it up!!! And boy was it nice-couldn't imagine setting up with out it!

Our garden was the 9th and last on the Tour, so I think a lot of people were just kinda ready to go by the time they got to our section. We didn't have a ton of traffic, if I had to guess, I'd say maybe roughly 100 people came by? And maybe 1/3 of them didn't even walk by my booth(I was on the very right end). So given that, I still did quite well. I made a lot of contacts, handed out lot's of business cards, made some decent sales, got some custom orders from some wonderful ladies, and I was also invited to setup at a Holiday Bazaar this November. So all in all, I am very happy I did this show-definitely a success! I will certainly be doing this one again next year!

Me and my booth at the Noblesville Garden Tour show