Pink at the Plaza 2009

We had our second annual Pink at the Plaza , a craft show benefiting the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, yesterday – Saturday May 2nd, 2009. Since I co-organize this event with Lucas, the operations manager of the Charlotte Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, I was really worried about the potential rain I’d read about all week. I spent most of the morning stalking the weather radars, dopplers, and any other type of weather forecast tool I could find to gauge the weather. All signs pointed to rain, but I had high hopes that we wouldn’t get any.

I met up with Lucas around 7:30 am to start setting up our venue, marking spots, etc. We got all the spaces marked pretty quickly, which was good because I had to set up my booth, still, since I was one of the jewelry vendors.

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Here’s what the space looks like when it’s empty.

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Set-up in progress…

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…and more setting up.

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I got my D Celestine booth put together pretty quickly, thanks to lots of help from hubby and a little help from Lucas, too. After setting up my booth, I made a run to Starbucks for caffeine.

The morning started out slow and we even got a light sprinkling of rain. Though I was a bit worried about the rain continuing, I maintained positive thoughts and the rest of the day turned out to be absolutely beautiful! The morning was cloudy and cool but the afternoon quickly turned to sunny and hot!

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My row.

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My booth neighbor – Fashionably Lauren

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Michelle Curl Photography

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You could tell some of the vendors were Avon Walk for Breast Cancer Walkers by all their pretty pink displays! I love their spirit!

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Look at those blue skies!

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Blue skies and fluffy white clouds – I loved the weather!

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When the sun started coming out, the people started coming out, too.

We had a fair number of people come through but I was mostly excited about the beautiful weather. Though the turnout wasn’t what I hope it will one day be, I think this year’s event was twice as good as last year’s event! I made some notes for takeaways to improve for next year, but for now, I’m just happy to see all my hard work come together on the event day. I can only hope to improve the event each year as I think Pink at the Plaza will grow to be a well-established Charlotte craft event one fine day. Considering we’re only in our second year of the event, I think everything went wonderfully! I also got some great advice from Tammy, founder of Laugh for the Cure , who stopped by to say hello and check out the event. Tammy helped remind me that getting from Point A to Point B (first craft show to well-established event) isn’t an overnight occurrence so the game-plan is to improve every year. So far, so good!

A special thank you to all my friends who stopped by PATP – thank you so much for your support!

I created a Flickr Group if anyone would like to see more photos – click here to view the Flickr . For some reason, the group isn’t showing photos, but the Pink at the Plaza photostream is working, so I just linked to that instead. Check it out! 🙂

2 thoughts on “Pink at the Plaza 2009”

  1. Wow Diana, how did you set up, take pics, and post in the same morning? What an inspiration, I could never do that, I'd be way too stressed!!

    Your booth looks great and what a lovely setting, it's to bad I couldn't be there with you. I hope you have a wonderful day full of sales and fun.
    XO

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