Well, I’m all packed and ready for the Freibank Fashion Fair that starts tomorrow morning. I always find it so hard to pack, as each bag is unique I always find it difficult to choose which bags to bring along and which to leave behind. I mean, you want to offer your potential customers as many choices as possible, but at the same time you can’t take them ALL. There wouldn’t be any point anyways, as it won’t be possible to display them all. And I think it’s a little silly when you start rummaging through boxes for a bag you think you packed but aren’t sure in which box while your customer stands there, waiting and getting annoyed.
I started with the thought of bringing 5 of each large bags, but in the end I have more shoulder bags as shopping bags, simply because the shoulder bags are cooler 
but also because I think that the clientele will prefer them. Although I’ve never been to this particular fair or show, it is aimed at a much younger and stylish public as the average Arts & Crafts fair. So over the past weeks I’ve tried to make funkier, more colourful bags, that I hope this public will be able to appreciate. I’ve also packed as many little bags, purses, make up bags and wristlets as I could.
I will take loads of pictures and post them as soon as I can. Though saying that I think it wont be before the beginning of next week. The fair is from 10:00 til 20:00 on Friday and Saturday, then 10:00 until 18:00 on Sunday so it doesn’t leave much time for anything else, even Blogging. It was all a little confusing actually as on their website it says it starts at 12:00 on Friday, so I thought, wow, that’s plenty of time to pack everything and build up the stand without stress on the Friday morning. But it turns out that it is actually starting at 10:00 which means that we should really be there at 8:00 to start building everything. I say ’we’ as my husband was great enough to take the day off work to help me set everything up. We could have built up the stand this evening actually but today is his birthday so we’re not going to build anything… We decided it would be nicer to enjoy a nice evening for his birthday and then build everything tomorrow, even if it means more stress then. It also means a nicer, less sweaty and less stressful evening tonight. As I must admit that I tend to get a little bossy when we are setting up my stands. I don’t mean to, I just can’t help it, it’s when I start worrying about if I thought of everything and wonder how sales are going to be and so on and so on. Anyway, that’s exactly why we are saving all this until tomorrow morning. Tonight we are going out for sushi as it’s his favourite!
