Live and learn. . .

While the recent event was not my busiest or biggest money-maker compared to other events I've done it was a good experience overall.  I was pretty happy with my booth placement and I got permission to use command hooks and turn the wall of glass behind me into a gallery wall. 😎  I did not expect that but because I am crazy and obsessive I had a bunch of extra stuff with me which included a bag of sticky pads and command hooks. 

So I was reasonably pleased with the set up but I think I need to work on rearranging the stuff on the tables and I definitely need some type of sheet metal standing board, sign or something for the fridge magnets. 😏  Actually, I have several ideas of things I want to do including stenciling and painting RainbowMaille on all the art crates, of course, in rainbow colors.  I also need some more and maybe different table risers, specifically I want one that will let the book of trees lay at an angle to make it easier to handle the pages and also prop it up at an angle so that people can see it better from a distance. 😉

I will say that the pre-loading the bracelet bars and rubber-banding everything in place was a brilliant time saver and worked much better than I thought it would. 😁  I will likely never do it for the silver and gold plated stuff because air exposure and oxidation is a problem but with the aluminum, rubber, leather heck yeah. My next thing needs to be something better for the earrings as I do not like the earring stands I have, at outdoor events they tend to blow over and they don't really hold all the earrings. 😕

But that's life you live and learn, every time I do one of these things I find new ways to improve on the set up, display, packing. 😇