The first day of the show always fills me with butterflies. I was excited, but also a lot nervous! I had silly thoughts like What if I forget how to have conversations with strangers? Or What if nobody visits our booth? But that all ended as soon as an enthusiastic attendee stepped into...
It's so hard to believe that another Stationery Show has come and gone. But here were are, already a few weeks post-show. Ally already wrote about pre-show prep and outreach, but there's also so much work in the days leading up to the show. Starting with packing! As the show approached,...
Tomorrow, we begin setting up our booth for the National Stationery Show in New York City! For me, this is just the latest in a series of firsts since I began designing for Smudge Ink back in October. It's been exciting, challenging, fun, and eye-opening to see what goes into...
Welcome back for part 2 of our NSS journey. If you missed part 1, find it here. After months of planning and days of set-up, the show is the fun part! We were thrilled to see the. It was so exciting because we really saw Clayton's 2- and 3-D models...
So. The 2017 National Stationery Show happened. It's done. We did it! Now that we've had a long weekend to recover from the annual whirlwind I'm here to share some behind-the-scenes of setting up our booth. THURSDAY, May 18Eric and I did all of the building in our garage, so...
