What The Husband Made Today

But, actually, it was more like last week...

So, I did my first craft show back in March, and one of the things I learned, and it was quite the embarrassing lesson, is that you really need a good, cohesive booth display to help draw shoppers to your booth. Not knowing what the heck I was doing, I just brought all my stuff and plunked it down on a table. After perusing the market and glancing at the displays of others, I realized that I needed things like height, depth and a theme to help make my both better branded and more pleasing to the eye. I decided to go with a pretty cupcake bar(like at a nice party or pretty cupcake shop), and use vintage glass cake plates and candy dishes, along with some custom, wooden, three tier cupcake stands which would be painted white, to match the shabby, retro sweets theme.

Custom cake plates/stands can rather expensive(and for good reason!) when purchased from a professional, so I enlisted the help of The Husband, who graciously used what little free time he has had this summer(he's been working seven days a week at the plant, the past couple of months) to design and build me cupcake stands that work well not only for my booth displays, but for actual cupcakes as well. As if I needed encouragement to do more baking...

Since we weren't exactly sure just what sizes we needed to go with for my booth display, we made a few rounds of cardboard mock ups before starting the actual finished product, which looks like this...

I am completely pleased with how they turned out. They are exactly what I wanted, simple and clean, so that they are capable of blending in with many types of decor and do not steal the show from my actual products. I received many compliments on them throughout the course of the market, which was hilarious since I had no sales of the items I was actually selling. That's small town Midwest for you, though-interested in the simple, plain white cake plates which we could make millions of nearly exact copies of, but not so interested in the bright, colorful, quirky and one of a kind, upcycled handmade textile creations I put my blood(sometimes), sweat(not so much) and tears(ALL THE TIME) into...HAHAHAHAHA!

*sobs profusely*

Anyway, only one is pictured, but they look exactly alike, so you should be able to picture both together in your head...

I am so thankful to have a husband with creative abilities that compliment my own. It is pretty cool to be able to say, "Hey, I made a sketch of this thing I need, can you make it for me?" and have him actually be excited to do it.

Now if I could just get him excited about washing his own socks...