NSS Wrap Up

So sorry for never getting those booth photos up this week. I grossly underestimated how wiped out I'd be from the show. All in all it was a good time. It was great to put a face to a name for buyers, vendors and press. I finally met Miss Grace from Design*Sponge in person, and she is just as lovely as expected. You should check out her coverage of the Show here, it is quite good! I also met another online friend, Emily over at Orange Beautiful / The Scoop. She too is lovely (and hilarious), plus she has some killer new letterpress goods coming out! Paper + Cup has always been a company that I looked up to in terms of how they have grown their business and such. We were lucky enough for them to be right next door to us. I loved seeing all their work in one place and Minhee and Truman... you couldn't have nicer people. They were great booth neighbors. Check out their show coverage here.
The show left me with a lot of thoughts and ideas and questions about the PIHNB line. I told Sasso I needed to go write it all down and think about it for a bit to which he replied "Of course you do". Above are pics of our booth. The tall one is me and next to me is Anna from Sub-Studio (beautiful silk screened cards, and she has a great new jewelry line called Brevity), Tara from Ink + Wit (sweet animal letterpress notes) and Janet of RSVP Press (lovely letter pressed bridal invitations). We got a lot of great comments on our booth, I think it helped that it was all white (including the hardwood floor) so our work really popped. I'm all about white space so I thought it was perfect. I'd like to just relax for a few days because next week the next 2 big project starts: the redesign of the new JHill Design site (yeah!!! a real content management system!) and the beginning of our wedding invites/website design. Ta-Ta, have a nice loooooong weekend! (ps.below are a few more pics from my wanderings around NYC).

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Well well well. After months of prep the big event is finally here. So lets see.... The drive from Boston to the Javits was totally beautiful. All these lush chartreuse parkways lined with what looked like big bonsai trees. I was nervous about driving into NYC but it was so easy, as was finding parking. I think I worried about everything so much that it all seems like a piece of cake now. I also have to say that - and I never thought this to be true - NYC drivers are a thousand times nicer than Boston drivers. I mean they actually let you switch lanes without trying to force you off the road and flipping you off.
I'm staying at the Courtyard Marriott in Jersey City for a few nights and I'm totally loving it. It is on the water, free wi-fi, a big room and next door is a great sushi place, a B of A, a Starbucks a great deli/market and the path train. What more could you ask for? Well there aren't any bathrobes, but I guess I can let that slide. Next year I'll book the whole week here and make sure to bring my own robe to complete the hotel experience. This morning I got a coffee and a bagel and sat by the water for a bit before I secluded myself to my room to watch the live web cast of my brother's graduation from college (congrats Chris!) and then it was back to the Javits.
So today we finished setting up our booth. There was a small snaffoo with the dimensions and it isn't quite as large as we were imagining. In the end with some compromise it looks very nice. Tight, but nice. It's been great hanging out with ladies that I've been talking online with for the last 5 months. We are right next to Paper + Cup and a few booths away from Knock-Knock so it has been great meeting /seeing companies that I so admire.
When I left tonight not everyone was done with their walls so I'll wait to show pictures of the booth until tomorrow. But here are a few shots of what I was enjoying while I was sitting in traffic tonight on my way back into jersey.