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!

Gold Leaf in Flowers &

Our products sure have the design world buzzing lately. We have 15 original pieces featured in the January 2011 issue of Flowers & as "Style Trends of 2011."

Turn to pages 48-51 for our four-page spread!

 

Pick up a copy today!