On the Road Again - This Time for National Scrapbook Day

PaperCraft Princess "mini" boutique

PaperCraft Princess is on the road to a 2-day NSD crop in Orange County, so I've been polishing up the display and making sure I've got lots of goodies for the lovely ladies who will be cropping the hours away. I love a good long crop myself and the only thing to put a damper on the day is when I find out I've forgotten to bring or run out of some basic necessity. This is especially frustrating when the crop isn't being held at a scrapbook store. So for the croppers this weekend who will be in a recreation hall, I'm their "go-to gal" for all those little necessities like ink and adhesive. It makes me so happy when I can help save the crafting day for a fellow scrapbooker!

Hotel Event

Now, for a little personal plug: If you're in the Southern California area and you need a small temporary papercrafting "store" at your next crop, keep me in mind. You can see from these photos that the boutique can scale up or down depending on your needs and available space.

Contact me at:
cindyDOTfahrbachATgmailDOTcom (replace those all-caps words with the actual symbols)

Art-Full Horizons Grand Garden Tea

Next on the agenda is the Art-Full Horizons Grand Garden Tea on May 27th. I'll be taking my boutique on the road and setting up shop for the tea in the lovely Renaissance Resort, Palm Springs.

I'll also be doing this little perfect bind mini book make-n-take, "Amour":

"Amour" mini book by PaperCraft Princess

This book features patterned papers from Making Memories and GCD Studio. We'll be creating the book and decorating the cover. The inside has six pages for attendees to decorate on their own later.

There is still time to snag a ticket for The Grand Garden Tea (even if you are not attending the rest of Art-Full Horizons event). Tickets are just $20 and include all the make n takes (free), gourmet appetizers, shopping til you drop, meeting the instructors, and more. Check it out here.

Hope I see you there!

ETA: Download basic instructions for this project here.

Photos from NSD 2-Day Crop

Here are some pics from the crop earlier this month. At nearly the last minute, I added a second table and I'm so glad I did because it gave me the chance to bring kits and have the samples on display as well. (Oops, my "slip is showing" in this first pic -lol!)

The new display pieces really worked well

I had such a marvelous time. Met lots of lovely scrappers and reunited with others that I just don't get to see often enough.

Me with Jennifer Priest (taken on her camera--notice the great quality)

With Kristen (and why oh why didn't I get a pic with Susanne?)

With PJ

Taking My Show On The Road

I'm pretty excited that PaperCraft Princess will be vending its first 'public' crop. The crop is in one week and I'm as busy as can be prepping kits and products for my sales table.

Spring seemed like the perfect time to spruce up my displays too and get some better risers to get more use of my table's real estate. Changing up the boutique gave me an excuse to do some shopping - yay! It wasn't all retail therapy (though there was some of that). I was also able to do some thrifting which is extra fun because it's such an adventure. You never know what you'll find --might be that what you find is even better than what you set off looking for.

I've already repainted everything I found before today.  I just wish I'd remembered to take "before" photos so that the "after" pics would be more meaningful. But here's a pic of a shelf I found today. What I liked about this is that the posts in the back look like a picket fence. They'll coordinate with a picket fence tiered shelf that I'll also be using.

Thrifted garden inspired shelf (before)

Picket fence shelf riser in background

Spring is the perfect season to freshen up. I'm adding touches of green and along with new white shelves & risers, I'm just loving the whole look. Can't wait to share photos of my finished table.

PaperCraft Princess: on the Prowl Again!

Tomorrow I will be teaching a little mini book class at a private crop in Diamond Bar. Here's a peek:

"Lazy Days" Mini Book Class

This will be the first large crop that I'm taking my traveling boutique to so it should be interesting to see if I've really got this down to a science or not.

I guess I haven't mentioned it here (seeing as I haven't blogged for many months), but my adventure in traveling has been quite a learning experience. I've simplifed my trunk show and can actually get the whole boutique set up in about a half an hour or so. I'm not schlepping as many cases and things as I was at the onset, so that's a plus too.

Of course, part of what has made it all about a gazillion times easier is my awesome assistant Celina, who is better than my right arm. She can jump in and do whatever is needed from setting up, being teacher's aide to writing orders, tearing down and cleaning up. She's the bomb!

I won't have Celina with me tomorrow. (Stops to cry big salty tears...)

But I'm a big girl. I actually do the whole set-up & tear down for my monthly crops all by myself. And this is just an extension of that, right?  (only with about four times the people -lol!)

Be sure to check back for post crop update.

PaperCraft Princess' Traveling Boutique