Working it Wednesday: Displays

This week I've been continuing to prep for Cooper Young by painting canvases and rocks. I've also been really, really researching different options for displays within my booth. I've read blogs, Google searched, and Pinterest hunted for hours on end. My displays need to be pretty, coordinated, packable/easily transported, and affordable. That's quite a challenging combination! Usually the ideas I find that I like aren't feasible for me either because of portability or cost. This week though I was able to come up with a new idea!

The table that I display my rocks on is never very eye-catching from a distance because the rocks don't have any vertical height. Once you stand over it and look down, it's great but it's always bugged me that you couldn't really see the rocks well from across the booth. Enter my new idea: shadow boxes!

I found an inexpensive shadow box on Amazon and ordered 3 of them. My plan is to stain them to match the wooden crates I use so that everything is coordinated. Then I'm going to attach a block of wood to the back of it so that it is propped up at the top end so that it sits sort of at a slant. This will allow a few of my favorite rocks to be featured in a way that can be seen from across the booth. I'll still have rocks randomly arranged, lying flat on the table around them but at least this way some of the rocks will have more vertical visibility. Here's a picture of the unstained shadowboxes:

I'll post final pictures once it's all stained and the prop is attached. For now, I'm off to scour Pinterest in search of ideas to display my canvas paintings better! 

Working It Wednesday: Catching Up

As you may have noticed, I was MIA last week. Where was I? Well, I was lucky enough to spend my week volunteering as a camp counselor at New Hope's kids camp. It was so much fun and I really want to do it again next year but after taking a week off work I am running behind on creating inventory for Cooper Young. So all in doing this week is playing catch up and trying to paint as many canvases as possible. I only have 37 canvas paintings in hand right now and I really want more like 75 on hand when show time rolls around so needless to say, I've got some serious catching up to do! No time for blogging, must paint now!

Working It Wednesday: Memphis Rocks

I'm not feeling so hot today so this week's post will be short and sweet. This week I've taken a break from canvas painting and worked on painting rocks instead. As I've mentioned previously, at shows I sell my story stones individually for just a $1. For Cooper Young I want to do a special theme of "Memphis" rocks so I've been doing a big variety of those in addition to my regular rocks. Here's a sneak peek of what I've finished so far.

Want to show your Memphis love with one of these rocks? Well, you'll just have to come see me at Cooper Young in September!