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National Stationery Show Behind The Scene 2

Posted on by Hijiri

The set up day 2 started with placing our shelves evenly and put up the vinyl logo stickers — oh boy, was it hard!

I’m short and pregnant, so my booth mates helped me (thank you!)…

but for some reason, the sticker was so not straight… so we had to stop. Luckily, I had 2 vinyl stickers (1 was a little mess-up, but that saved my life!) so we decided to peel this off with hair dryer, which Wally (Carrie‘s husband) ran back to their hotel and get for me. (Thank you again so much!!)

In the meantime, I worked on getting the first line of the alphabet greeting cards up.

and 2nd try… Wally is so tall so he helped me again here. Thank you, thank you!

whew! It looks nice and straight! I was so relieved :)

and after that, I just keep putting up all the alphabet greeting cards by using masking tape as a guide.

The second day ended here… I does take a while to put up all the cards straight and evenly by hands…

(To be continued…)

National Stationery Show Behind The Scene 1

Posted on by Hijiri

I still can’t believe how awesome the stationery show was… I wanted to document as much as possible as a first timer (and for those of you who are thinking about exhibiting next year) so I will be sharing what went on behind the scenes first…

The set up day 1 — when we arrived, our booth was filled with crates… (none of them were ours!) and the wall was only half way installed… (see below)

Our aisle 2300 was empty!

After a while, the wall installation completed, more and more booth mates showed up, we built tables and stools…

Building time!

By the end of the day 1, most of the shelves were built, tables and chairs were built, met most of our lovely Ladies of Letterpress gals :)

(to be continued…)

Thank You So Much, NSS!

Posted on by Hijiri

Ladies of Letterpress Booth 2011Ladies of Letterpress Booth 2011The National Stationery show has ended yesterday — what an experience! I am still taking it all in, my body feels like it needs a little more rest, but most of all, I am very inspired and feeling great!! I met so many talented lovely people at the show, that itself was well worth the sleepless weeks.

I will be back with more pictures and thoughts on Monday.

In the meantime, there are great coverages of the show online already, please check these out to see how great everything was!

Oh So Beautiful Paper (see our booth feature here! — Thank you so much!!)

Poppytalk (see our booth feature here! — Thank you so much, 1canoe2! Lovely to meet you.)

Thank you so much, NSS! And especially, all of our Ladies of Letterpress exhibitors and their friends and families — THANK YOU SO MUCH for the wonderful show!! Couldn’t have done it without you <3

The National Stationery Show 2011

Posted on by Hijiri

I will be at the National Stationery Show until the 18th. It has been crazy preparing for the show, but I am so excited about what’s going to happen, what I would learn from this and who I’m going to meet! If you are coming to the show, please stop by booth #2362-68 and say hello!

I will be back with lots of pictures and my experience, please check back and see more about the show :)

Have a great week, everyone! xo Hijiri