This was my first weekend setting up a booth and I did it
two days in a row, phew!
Saturday we set up in Oneonta for the 34th Annual Grand and Glorious Garage Sale. I arrived half an hour earlier than my Mom and Amy. Mom was
selling her recycled rugs and purses and Amy was there to help (and help she
did!). As we unloaded the truck I would just point or tell Amy where to put
things. She’s so great, before even setting an object down, she would say, what
am I doing next? We slammed that booth together in about 40 minutes which is
miraculous considering it was our first time and I had only planned the booth
out on the canvas in my head. Amy and mom were teasing me about not wanting to
have anything ‘that didn’t match’ hung out. Amy said, yeah, because it has to
match, but not match, in the Alexis matching without matching sort of way. I
liked that.
Well, we barely had the booth finished and people were
coming in and buying stuff! It was so exciting. The Mid Century black faux
leather chairs had three inquiries and sold within 5 minutes of putting them
down! I had painted some wicker screens someone gave me for free because the
loops connecting them had fallen apart to look sort of like abstract daisies to
match my 50s-70s theme I was going for and we barely had them set up before
someone came and asked about them. I said I hadn’t planned to sell them and they
were held together with zip ties, but I suppose if someone really wanted them
and would let me use them for the rest of the show I would sell them – and they
bought them!
But, the biggest hit in Oneonta was the vintage clothing. I had no idea Oneonta had such a hip crowd. Very fun people.
The best part of the weekend was how many times people complimented the booth. People even thanked us for being there and for
having such a nice booth. I’d call that a successful weekend!
