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Originally Posted by Miriel Enfield  Clearly, you did not look close enough at my booth last year.
It'll be harder to prove you wrong this year, since I'm putting more effort into my stall, but I'm confident I can do it. Just spend a lot of time scrutinizing the roof texture, and I'm sure you'll agree: it's ugly. |
Hey! I didn't even notice the decor on your booth! That's not damning with faint praise; I didn't notice the decor of anybody's unless it slapped me in the face, and that almost always detracts from the jewelry and kind of annoys me!
(Well, okay, one exception: The pink one with all the candy jewelry - but nothing is anything without an exception to the rule! I'm just one of those who wants to see the jewelry and doesn't care about the booths.)
What I noticed was your jewelry! I made mental notes to compliment you on two of the sets. One was the Bird of Paradise earrings, which I thought were just phenomenally creative! And the other was the "Secret" set, with necklace with a key on it, probably one of the most beautifully crafted and unique (in the good, understated way) pieces I saw at the fair (or anywhere). And the names chosen - perfection!
A few notes on the fair itself:
A number of the designers really need to reconsider their box art. Some of them, you can't really tell much about or actually SEE the jewelry on the box!
Box art is an art in itself, of course, but I did notice that a number of designers need to improve on that, because I would have to strain to see what the product WAS, and then still maybe not have a good idea.
And this business about having a cutout of the object itself to represent the item - effective when done well, but very hard to do well. Often it is difficult to see the item (jewelry, especially, is small), and often it doesn't give enough branding to your items, or enough information about them. Only one or two people who did that did it right. (If I recall correctly, Shiny Things was one that I thought did it right.)
In general, arty is fine, but not when it totally detracts from your item, which is what happened in the worst cases I saw of this.
About the setup itself, I think those center stores aren't as nifty as people think they are. I like the setup of the fair; it is simple and easy to see everyone's things, unlike those malls and fairs which are absolute mazes you can't easily keep track of, and end up leaving before you're SURE you've seen everything.
At this one, my practice is to start at one point on the outside, then work my way around. (I figure most people do that!) It's the first thing I do. Also, I can't keep track of which of the center stores I've been to and I haven't - maybe making each a different color might bring more attention to them, plus easily enable us to keep track of which we've seen.
I loved the little hidden boxes of freebies - that's fun!
And I liked that - apparently - you could be sure that in the stores, the main boxes of freebies would always be 0 Lindens and not 1 Linden if the box had the expo design. (There were some without the design that were 0 Lindens, but there were also some that were 1.) You could trust it, and not have to keep checking.
(No point in having a 1 Linden freebie these days, anyway, except greed over one Linden, which looks worse than our stinginess over spending one Linden!)
I also liked that you could get landmarks without having to join a group. I don't know what it is with these events where you can't get a landmark without having to join their group (I think NPIRL was one, and I heard that the Burning Man, which I haven't gone to see, was another.) Just a great way to make sure people DON'T take your landmarks!
Anyway, loved the fair, thanks for your awesome work in getting it done, Miriel! I would be truly bereft if we didn't have it.
coco
P.S. Yes, lack of lag, like everyone else said.