Tag: NSS 2011

National Stationery Show Behind The Scene 3 + Press Room

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The set-up day 3 — I started off with the last row of placing alphabet cards and then, onto placing another vinyl stickers on the wall, kind of like a divider, that goes in between alphabet cards and other greeting cards. But… again, it was really hard to place it totally straight and it made a weird curve towards the right side… (please don’t look closely, I am embarrassed… but it’s true, it was NOT straight…) sigh… oh well.

This is the booth picture at the end of the day. Few decorative things were missing, made a note to bring those, and called the day.

After my booth was very close to be done, I went to the “Press Room” to place our press kits — I was amazed by so many great looking, creative press kits here! This is definitely something I had no idea what to expect and learned so much about. I will do this differently next time for sure. (Mine was just a press release sheets of papers, card samples and my business cards… in an envelope.)

Fugu Fugu Press (left) and Printerette Press (right)

Old Tom Foolery newspaper press kit — very clever and funny, reflects their products very well :)

Paper Stories (left) and Paper Parasol Press (right) — simple and elegant.

((sorry for the blurry pictures))

National Stationery Show Behind The Scene 2

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The set up day 2 started with placing our shelves evenly and put up the vinyl logo stickers — oh boy, was it hard!

I’m short and pregnant, so my booth mates helped me (thank you!)…

but for some reason, the sticker was so not straight… so we had to stop. Luckily, I had 2 vinyl stickers (1 was a little mess-up, but that saved my life!) so we decided to peel this off with hair dryer, which Wally (Carrie‘s husband) ran back to their hotel and get for me. (Thank you again so much!!)

In the meantime, I worked on getting the first line of the alphabet greeting cards up.

and 2nd try… Wally is so tall so he helped me again here. Thank you, thank you!

whew! It looks nice and straight! I was so relieved :)

and after that, I just keep putting up all the alphabet greeting cards by using masking tape as a guide.

The second day ended here… I does take a while to put up all the cards straight and evenly by hands…

(To be continued…)

National Stationery Show Behind The Scene 1

Posted on by Hijiri

I still can’t believe how awesome the stationery show was… I wanted to document as much as possible as a first timer (and for those of you who are thinking about exhibiting next year) so I will be sharing what went on behind the scenes first…

The set up day 1 — when we arrived, our booth was filled with crates… (none of them were ours!) and the wall was only half way installed… (see below)

Our aisle 2300 was empty!

After a while, the wall installation completed, more and more booth mates showed up, we built tables and stools…

Building time!

By the end of the day 1, most of the shelves were built, tables and chairs were built, met most of our lovely Ladies of Letterpress gals :)

(to be continued…)

Thank You So Much, NSS!

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Ladies of Letterpress Booth 2011Ladies of Letterpress Booth 2011The National Stationery show has ended yesterday — what an experience! I am still taking it all in, my body feels like it needs a little more rest, but most of all, I am very inspired and feeling great!! I met so many talented lovely people at the show, that itself was well worth the sleepless weeks.

I will be back with more pictures and thoughts on Monday.

In the meantime, there are great coverages of the show online already, please check these out to see how great everything was!

Oh So Beautiful Paper (see our booth feature here! — Thank you so much!!)

Poppytalk (see our booth feature here! — Thank you so much, 1canoe2! Lovely to meet you.)

Thank you so much, NSS! And especially, all of our Ladies of Letterpress exhibitors and their friends and families — THANK YOU SO MUCH for the wonderful show!! Couldn’t have done it without you <3