Thursday, May 8, 2008

Armed and handy

I've been trying to get organized for the upcoming jewelry show. It's hard to believe it is little more than one week away! After months of procrastinating, I'm starting to feel the heat now. I have enough inventory as far as the jewelry goes. Too much. Hence the show. Now I'm concentrating on my set-up: how to display the pieces, how to dress up the table, business cards, mirrors, baggies, Zzzzz.

A couple weeks ago, I decided that I had to come up with a new way to display my jewelry--so I put the BF to work. It was swelteringly hot that day in the south bay--perfect time for some manual labor! With A LOT of help from the BF's fam, I was able to use some flea market frames and turn them into padded displays to hang jewelry off of. Here are some before, during, and after shots. Not bad for $30 and a liter of sweat. Thanks to the fam for the hard work, power tools, and brave faces when I was wielding the staple gun!



1. Ply wood and a flea market frame. 2. Cutting out the batting and linen. 3. Watch those fingers. 4. The fruits of our labor!

1 comment:

Izzy said...

Glad to hear you have all of your fingers in tact. Take it from someone that has accidentally stabled their finger with a REGULAR stapler. It hurts. Hurts bad. Hurts like seeing the last piece of chocolate in the house being eaten by your BF. A staple GUN injury could hurt as bad as seeing the BF drink the last of the liquor in the house. These are tragedies we must not think of too often.