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!