Setting Up the Booth at the NYIGF

Darren, Allan and Jose have just begun setting up the booth for the New York Gift Fair and have already hit a wall. Wait, strike that. Reverse it.

12:10pm EST - "Jose crushes foot and toe setting up booth. We are now down one person but must continue."

We Love New York in January, How About You?

This morning, Darren, Allan and Jose checked out the 18" of snow that was dumped in New York last night.

On to New York?

Booth photos from this year's Atlanta Market will be on our website today! Just log in to goldleafdesigngroup.com and click on "HD Exhibitions" to see how it all turned out. Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth.

Darren and Allan are at the airport now ready to head to New York International Gift Fair... but are now facing the same issues that plagued their delays into Atlanta and threatened their show attendance: Snow.

6:43am CST - "Going to O'Hare Airport. Changed to earlier flight to beat New York snow storm."

8:15am CST - "On plane, ready for take off."

8:32am CST - "Sitting on runway now. A sudden snowstorm in new York delays us for 50 minutes, they say.  Will we leave?"

9:16am CST - "New York airport closed. Sitting on runway for 45 more minutes."

9:29am CST - "Sleeping."

10:16am CST - "Going back to gate. No take off."

10:37am CST - "Here we sit!" (Broken-hearted)

11:15am CST - "De-planing."

11:57am CST - "Back on plane. The only flight supposed to now leave. All other flights today are cancelled into New York."

3:07pm EST - "Just landed in New York. After almost 5 hour delay. Lot of snow!"

4:30pm EST - "Made it to the hotel and now going to work. More wintry mix starting. 5 inches expected tonight."

5:05pm EST - "Slippery."

Phew! Catch us January 29 through February 2! Pier 94, At Home division, Booth #45044 at the Javits Center!

Atlanta Market Marathon: Thursday Evening

8:12pm EST   "Now our scanners and bar code labels don't work."

9:13pm EST  "Finished." They set up the booth for over 20 hours straight.

9:51pm EST   "Leaving Mart. Back at 7 am to price."

Atlanta Market Marathon: Thursday Afternoon

12:04 pm EST

 

1:17pm EST  12th straight hour of setup...

2:55pm EST  "Tired!" (Darren and Allan have been up now for nearly 36 hours straight.)

3:35pm EST  "Joe just got here."

Atlanta Market Marathon: Thursday Morning

11:50pm EST  Arrived at the Mart. There will be a booth here by tonight.

12:50am EST  The walls have begun to go up.

2:31am EST  "walls are all up"

5:56am EST  Time to add product

8:23am EST  Things are taking shape

9:41 am EST "Going for coffee. Have not stopped."

10:47am EST  "Atlanta ice"

10:48am EST  "Jorge arrives to help"

Atlanta Market Marathon: Wednesday Night

5:19pm CST: Waiting at O'Hare

7:22 CST: "Yea, boarding! Stopped at Starbucks and purchased Via instant coffee and snacks for our "all nighter"."

10:00pm EST "Made it to Atlanta airport 10 pm Wednesday."

"Expecting the worst on every step of our journey.  But, we did get our luggage. Now, going to rental car center to get our rental car. Driving in ice ridden Atlanta (so we've heard) will be reality soon."

11:17pm EST "Discussing additional insurance"

11:24pm EST "So far, roads are clear"

Trying Again to Leave

Darren and Allan are on their way back to O'Hare Airport! We hope they catch a flight out to Atlanta tonight. They are planning an unprecedented marathon set up of our booth over the next 24 hours to be ready for the show on Friday!

Stuck in Chicago

This week we've been reminded that Mother Nature can be ugly sometimes, too.  

Darren and Allan are trying to make it to the Atlanta Market, but have been stuck in Chicago for the past two days. On Monday morning, flights were cancelled because of snow in Atlanta. Today, it was snow in Chicago. So, we've got a booth (2 West Wing 1-115) but no one to attend to it!

The forecast is calling for the snow to lighten up in the next day. Will they make it out in time to show off our brand new products for 2011? Stay tuned. In the meantime, we'll just have to keep digging!