Werrrre Back!

Whew! The show was a huge success, but we are glad it is over. We had so much fun flying to the show, setting up the booth, talking with customers and even had fun tearing down the booth. Believe it or not, we tore down the booth in 17 minutes flat.

We started with the worst flight to Chicago. Angelica, Laura and myself left San Jose at 9:00 pm and arrived in Chicago at 8:00 am( we had a layover in Vegas, not good for my pockets). We slept a whopping 3 hours before we landed. We waited 45 minutes for the rent a car bus to get us. One guy was so livid, he started cussing out the workers. They did take off our GPS rental charge in the end for the inconvience. We went to the hotel to eat breakfast, checked in and waited until our packages arrived. We walked to the convention center to set up, this time it was easier because the furniture except the bookcase and end table was rented. I didn't want to hassle with shipping large freight back and forth, so I just took the easy way out. Forgetting the price, the booth furniture actually looked nice. We took a few hours to set up and we figured out we needed a bookcase and end table. We drove to Target and bought what we needed to finish the booth.

We visited two great Scrapbooking stores. An Archivers and Windy City Scrapbooking. Archivers is a very nice, neat store that has the latest and greatest. Laura liked it so much she spent over $70.00. We went to our hotel and I went to bed at 7:00 pm, I was so exhausted.

The next day, we started on the booth and finished it up by 3:00pm.

The show started on Friday and we were ready. We had people coming in out all day. Marcellus arrived from Ireland Friday night, we had dinner while Laura and Angelica went to the SIS and Two Peas parties. Saturday was busy, we had the worst sushi and I think Marcellus got sick from it. Coming from California, we are spoiled. We have the freshest sushi here in San Francisco.

We finished up on Sunday with a bang. People were turning in their orders and we received a lot of orders on this day.

We flew home and here we are getting ready for our next show in February. We are glad it is over, but we are not resting until all the orders are shipped.

This is the Your Pictured Memories story. I will update on what I bought for the store later.