Making a fair stand

I love to find and tune new items to make my fair stand prettier and more practical. I was trying to upload some photos from my phone but it somehow didn't work at all so I have to show the pictures that I have uploaded on Facebook. Sorry for that, I will try to update them later on!

Mostly I find the props from drift stores and flea markets. Lately I found a lovely and rare, old window frame that has white and wood color brown on it. I put a white net canvas on the background with some nails and glue and it works very well with my earrings. it can also be used to show other things if you use magnets to attach items from both sides (displaying for example some necklaces on that is something to keep in mind if I ever run out of earrings...)

Old stand was brown, now I painted it white.

white :)

Window frame earring stand.

After finding that window frame I totally decided my stand would be a combination of white and wooden brown props. It was easy to look for other items to accompany the window frame, something that would have the same spirit. Take a look of what I found and how the stand looked like last weekend in the Spring sales.

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I also found the necklace stand from a fleamarket for 3 euros. It's made of brown wood but I used regular white acrylic paint to make it white.  The bookmark stand was also brown and I painted that too to match my new style. Im very happy with this new look!

What's new!

So it's been a while since I posted anything. I have been super busy working in Putinki since their graphic designer quit the job totally and I have been making all the very late xmas calendar designs and cards. This week has been all about 9 hours days and little else. Today I actually finished the calendars! Woo! Yay I was so happy to finish them! Who knew that making X-mas calendars require so many layers for printing... 

Anyway, I bet you guys are dying to read about the Helsinki Kädentaitomessut and how did it go! Well, it actually went allright. There weren't many people coming to the fair tho this time and I personally think it is because there were many big events during that weekend and Design market had over 20 000 visitors. I made some nice connections and some sales so it was all good for me! 

I did learn that the finnish buyers are the type who only look from a distance and that we don't want to present our stand this way: 

Instead this worked A LOT BETTER:

My bookmarks and cute earrings sold nicely and I am now in the process of making more penguins and owls for my earrings. I also have many custom designs avaiting to be made this weekend. I also need to design more dog earrings for Koirakahvila Vainu (dog cafe in Tampere). 

Here are some more pictures from the fair: