Last night - after an amazing 3 days at the Top Drawer Trade show, and an equally amazing meal at Moro (my annual Top Drawer treat) - Euan and I loaded the wheelie cases onto the Caledonian Sleeper and trundled our way home.
During the show I had been able to email orders to Valerie and I have now come home to an enormous pile of prepped notebooks, cushions and particularly egg cosies all courtesy of Isobel.
Our new postcards went down particularly well - so much so that it looks like I will be having to think of reprinting certain designs.
This patchwork caravan was particularly admired . . .
What was wonderful was that there was a real buzz about the show - when you read the papers it can all seem doom and gloom for retail, but talking to independent shops that stock Snapdragon things they had almost all had a good 2011 and were optimistic about the coming year. I think that people care more now where they shop and that is helping independent retailers.
I didn't take my camera to the show - I had enough problems fitting all the samples into our wheelie cases - but there were lots of wonderful things to see and a great many people from twitter, facebook and blogs that came to say Hi.
Bravo to you, Jane.
It's no surprise at all that your unique designs were so well received.
Rest up a bit (at least a day?) before getting down to filling all those orders!
xo
Posted by: Frances | January 21, 2012 at 01:18 AM
Wow I love these, Ecspecially the bunnies lol
Posted by: Tree Surgeons in London | January 26, 2012 at 11:35 AM
I'm glad the show went so well, I love the caravan too
: )
Posted by: picciolo | January 29, 2012 at 09:30 PM