Amy Abrams Designs » shows

Gearing Up For Two Simultaneous Shows!

Amy — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:52:49 +0000

I’ve never participated in two shows at the same time so I’m a little nervous about having enough stock. I’m sharing with my partner for both, and my third partner is coming in on the last day of one of the shows and will be contributing some of her work as well so we should be fine.

I’ve ordered new business cards which I’m very excited about. I’m pretty much out of the old ones, which had an embarrassing old photo (from one of my first photography sessions).

Here’s my new one:

Front of card

Here’s the back:

back of card

I’m excited and I can’t wait to get them! I can’t wait to hand out the first one!

Arts On Foot was great!

Amy — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:04:47 +0000

Arts On Foot, produced by Diverse Markets Management Group took place this past week (Sept. 8-11). I was there for all four days and had a wonderful time. The event was very well-organized, the staff was great and our patrons couldn’t have been more wonderful! We met some really great people, heard great music, ate some great food and enjoyed perfect weather for the run of the show.

Our booth design has been evolving over the last few years, here is an old booth shot (from an indoor show):

From 2007 Frosty's Fair

The silhouette is my partner in jewelry. Last year, we decided to move to shelving for the most part and this is what we slapped together:

From 2009 Downtown DC Holiday Market

Better right? Cleaner, easier to see, easier to navigate, but very busy, and the bamboo blinds as a backdrop didn’t work as well as we had envisioned.

For Arts On Foot we had a little more time to plan and decide how we wanted to present ourselves. We had to change some things a little bit but overall how we planned it was how it looked:

From 2009 Downtown DC Holiday Market

The green is really fresh looking and the dark espresso brown is a nice accent and combination with it. Our silver pops nicely against both colors, which is nice. It’s really hard to find a color that works for silver jewelry. We got rid of the large table in favor for a much smaller one just big enough for our mirror, business cards, mailing list book, and my humongous laptop, which we use to process credit card sales. We incorporated two “pedestals” fashioned from stools with trays velcroed to the tops for our pendants. Overall, the booth was much cleaner and easier on the eyes, and there was little of the dreaded “butt brush issue”.

Busy, busy, busy!

Amy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:24:14 +0000

Between selling jewelry at craft shows, helping my dad at Greenfest and getting that horrendous cold that’s been going around, I’ve definitely let the blog slide! This month is going to be even busier! I’m going to be selling my jewelry at a school fundraiser in Ashburn, VA this weekend, I’ve started a weekly belly dancing class at the YMCA, and I’m selling my jewelry for the 6th year in a row at the Garrett Park Nursery School Craft Show. Because of this and other upcoming December shows I have elected to not travel to Pittsburgh with my husband to visit his family for Thanksgiving. I am spending the weekend at home and will only take a break from jewelry making for part of the day on Thanksgiving to go to dinner with my Aunt and her family. Hopefully I’ll get plenty done!

I’ve introduced a new medium into my work – Bronzclay. I haven’t fired anything yet but I’ve made pieces of a box that I have to put together, as well as a couple of incense holders, a tiny little treasure bowl, and pieces for a bracelet. I’m planning on firing those pieces this week! I’m so excited! I’ve been planning on making Christmas and Hanukkah ornaments out of the Bronzclay so that I can have something non-jewelry related that still is in harmony with my jewelry.

Photos of the Bronzclay pieces will be put up as soon as I get them fired.