Trunkshow Post-mortem

The DIY Trunkshow went spectacularly. I sold all but three of the 40-odd matchbook notepads I made, a few of the gift cards and five floppy disk pictureframes. My booth was hopping the whole day -- it was great.

(To explain: Matchbook notepads. I bought a whole bunch of vintage matchbook covers -- nearly all pre-1962, which means the strike strip is on the front rather than the back of the matchbook. I printed little pages with ~20% screens of matches on them and stapled the pages into the covers. Voila, tiny notepads, perfect for writing down that cutie's phone number at the bar. The gift cards were the same concept, only with a single sheet of plain watercolor paper instead of the notepad pages -- a different way to address of a present. The floppy disk pictureframes are made with 3.5" floppies which I split at the top and remove the magnetic media, leaving a hole in the middle. I bend the metal slider so that the disk will stand up, and I designed a sticker to seal the frame once you put a photo in it. Perfect for your favorite computer geek.)

Cinnamon and I were pretty exhausted afterwards -- six hours of being in sales mode will do that to you --so after dinner with Christian and Cara (who shared my booth) at Andie's we just went home. We were still wired, though, so we still didn't go to bed till midnight.

On Sunday I got another thing accomplished: I finished my first Jehovah! It's going in the mail to Alison today, and I'll have pictures up tonight or tomorrow. Woohoo! Now to get finished on Naz's, which is about a third done.

Posted by Andrew Huff at November 17, 2003 03:08 PM