The 63rd annual National Stationery Show is being held this year from May 17 – 20, and I know that a number of you are preparing to attend (many as exhibitors), so I thought that I’d take this opportunity to link to the fantastic “Prepping for the Show” series that guest blogger Sarah Champlin of [...]

Thanks, again, to Sarah for putting together this fantastic, information packed series! I know that I learned a lot about what goes into preparing for a show, and hopefully many of you did, too. For future reference, all of the posts in this series can be found under the “Prepping for the Show” category.

Meeting Other Designers
One of the best parts of the show is seeing the people behind the brands that you love. It was amazing to meet Emily from Orange Beautiful, Susan from SusyJack, and Lisa from SweetBeets, and to see the booths of the more established letterpress companies that I admire, like Snow & Graham [...]

Designing It and Building It
The standard booth you receive consists of just pipe and drape. It looks like this:

Most people dress this up by bringing in their own drapes, and/or their own furniture and accessories.
You can also use resources through NSS to design and build your booth, like Manny Stone, a company that can build [...]

Sarah Marie officially started in October of 2007 (just eight short months ago!), and we were determined to exhibit at the National Stationery Show in May. We submitted the application for the show in November and received our booth number in December, which gave us five months to prepare. Our calendar looked something [...]