The big city of Houston!

On to Quilt Market! We left Salt Lake City at the butt crack of dawn, 6:50 AM and arrived in Houston around 11 AM. On our way to the hotel we see the devastation Hurricane Ike left, large city buildings with windows still blown out, tarps over lots of roofs,etc. We set up our booth and then went to a wonderful dinner at Spencers. Back to the convention center, which is seriously the size of a city, to set up for sample spree. We all know what Black Friday is...well Sample Spree is basically a Black Friday crammed into a room with quiltaholics! It was madness! The next day, we were open for business! Mary's booth turned out really cute and her quilts looked like artwork on the walls. Sidenote: we had these lamps in our booth and they would just randomly turn off or flicker so we decided we had a haunted booth space!We kept busy most of the day. We met up with some of Mary's friends, (now my friends) and had a great dinner at Bennihana's. The following 2 days were a blur because they were so similar! Lots of, "would you like a flyer? All of Mary's new patterns are here for Market!". I think Mary did pretty good considering she is possibly going to be designing some patterns for some fabric companies, possibly being published in a magazine and we all made some new friends. I went around meeting some other vendors and telling them about my Cottage Quilt business. Then the breakdown of the booth!! I don't have any pictures of the booth other than the one I took from my cell phone but you wouldn't believe what we fit in our suitcases! We flew back home late Monday night and were ready for bed! Houston is quite an eclectic city, maybe one day I will get to venture further than the little park across from the convention center!


Mary's booth! Home for 3 days...