Well, home again but not quite here yet......we had a great weekend at market in Portland but it is so nice to be home. I am such a homebody. The whole family is happy.....anyway, then I had to change hats Monday morning while Kaffe and Brandon were here for the week to teach. We had a inspirational hike on Monday morning - Vi and I went with them to the Metolious river -anyway I am getting distracted....Market.....I didn't get out of the booth much over the weekend - it was so busy that Carolyn and I didn't get much break. I did get a chance to take a few photos....here we go........
Miss Carolyn as we start set up........
My sign and a couple of rose photos that I had printed on canvas and stretched....
in progress.....
Finally......all done. We actually didn't take all that long to get set up.....Carolyn and I actually went back to the hotel painted our toenails.....went shopping then to our dinner date....but back to how the booth ended up.
There is Carolyn....isn't she cute in the Barcelona skirt out of the medallion in Olive Rose?
The other side of the booth. Looked pretty good......
Carolyn and I on Saturday.......here are some detail shots in the booth.
The aprons are from our Lifestyle book.....
Pincushions......
easy pillows but look so great........
Grocery Tote from Lifestyle......
Project Bag sewing cards.........
I saw a lot of friends....Amy Butler, Kaffe Fasset, Brandon Mably, Rob Appell....and many new friends that I look forward to getting to know more as we continue to see each other at market....Anna Maria, Heather Bailey, Heather Ross......
Miss Amy in her BEAUTIFUL booth...she is classy and professional and always so generous....gotta love her!!
Amy and I....she had on this beautiful dress that she is going to have as a pattern soon....I love her clothing patterns they fit so well. I don't know much - ok nothing - about designing clothing patterns so I have used Amy's.......
The trio.....Liza, Kaffe, and Brandon......
Mom and Brandon.....Mom left for Italy on Sunday...lucky girl. She has wanted to go for years and finally her and John are off to Tuscany.....I do hope she has a wonderful time she deserves it - she works so hard. Anyway, I am back to figuring out how to do the Flickr thing - I have always downloaded my photos and then changed size, and cropped, and possibly adjusted the image in photoshop and then pulled them up into my blog....I kept hearing about Flickr and thought I would try to figure it out maybe it wont take me so long to post anything and besides that I was recently invited to join Ravelry....those of you who don't knit it is a knitting forum type..... my space sort of place...and to upload photos onto it you use Flickr.....so...that is something I am trying to do this evening...tomorrow is another Kaffe and Brandon class...today they painted, tomorrow and Thursday are patchwork - they use that word rather than quilt, I kinda like it - and Friday is a knitting class with Kaffe and then I will take him to Portland to catch a plane....Different hat to wear this week....it is hard to change my gears so quickly. But it is what you do. Have a great night!!
Valori
Sounds like you had a wonderful time and your booth looks absoloutely stunning.
Posted by: Linda | May 20, 2008 at 09:57 PM
Oh, your booth looks gorgeous! I've just ordered my first batch of your gorgeous fabric, what a lovely discovery it was. :)
Posted by: Kylie | May 20, 2008 at 10:17 PM
LOVE all the beautiful pics! Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Amy | May 20, 2008 at 11:01 PM
Hi Valori,
Hopefully next time we'll get more of a chance to get to know each other, but it was lovely to meet you. I blogged some detail shots of your booth- it looked awesome!
Posted by: melissa@yummygoods | May 21, 2008 at 04:38 AM
Thanks for sharing! Your booth looks great and so do your fabrics!
Posted by: Jodi | May 21, 2008 at 02:19 PM
I was at Market on friday and your booth was gorgeous. All the fabric was so lovely and the animals from the new book are the perfect balance of great kid appeal and nostalgic parent appeal.
Posted by: mo | May 21, 2008 at 07:05 PM
What wonderful shots of your booth! Thank you for sharing the behind the scenes with us! What fun it must have been for you. Your line is dreamy! I just adore it and know it is going to do fantastic. Everything you have sewn up looks pretty as can be in your fabric. Enjoy your fame and selling your fabrics! I hope they turn up in Norway soon!
~Emily
Posted by: Ravenhill | May 22, 2008 at 03:03 AM
Gorgeous booth! Everything looks amazing! It sounds like you had fun too! I wish I had some flickr tips for you but I haven't sat down to figure it out yet either. My sister wants me to use it to post pics of the kiddos for her so we'll see.
Posted by: Kim | May 23, 2008 at 06:24 AM
Hi Valerie...have you worked the flickr thing out yet? I run several groups on flickr to do with quilting...someone who has a quilt in one of Kaffe's latest books has put up a few photos and a lot of artisans are there and they are even more inspired by what they see on flickr.
Some of our top quilters and quilt shops in Australia are there too ....they just show photos and add a link to who they are in their profile.
Our main group is here: so you get a taste...but beware the big black hole which sucks out all idea of time! Hope your dad is improving....think it was Father's day yesterday there?
http://www.flickr.com/groups/719427@N21/
Posted by: magikquilter | June 16, 2008 at 02:32 AM
WOW, this looks like so much fun!!!! Let me know if you need any photographs for you booth or what not, I would be more than happy to contribute some stuff to you! Let me know!!
Posted by: Tegan | June 16, 2008 at 03:09 PM