Today my mom and I rented a booth in a local doll and toy show for the second year in a row.  As always, it was a lot of fun, but this year was especially lucrative — we brought in well over three times what we usually make.  My mom and I aren’t really sellers — we collect hard plastic dolls from the 1950s, and just sell the ones we don’t want anymore as our collections grow and change.

I was really impressed with the show this year.  It is always held in the same place, in the ballroom and lobby at a local hotel.  The hotel has wheelchair ramps, handicapped parking spaces with plenty of space on either side for a wheel chair lift to operate, and various other luxuries such as a lovely hotel dining room. We found out a little too late that there was even a special room rate for attendees this year — if they do that again next year we plan on staying in the hotel.

I don’t know why it was, but the show was especially busy today, and we sold a lot of stuff.  Most of our customers were the folks we always see there, many of them dealers themselves, but perhaps they were buying more than usual because they were so encouraged by the good sales themselves.

Whatever it was, we really had a great time, and look forward to selling at the show again next year!

One of the things that I told David (my husband) at the start of the year that our home needed some decorating.  We have had the same trinkets hanging on the wall for the past ten years, and quite frankly, I am tired of them.  Since he wasn’t going to do anything about it, I told him that I would, and the house was going to change according to my wishes, not his.

Since the whole thing was up to me, I decided to go with a western home decor theme throughout the house.  I was inspired by my best girlfriend Julie’s home – I have never seen anything so beautiful and I want my home to look the same.

So, I have decided to seek her advice on what I should be buying and benefit from her experience on where to get the best deals.  I know that their western bedding sets were bought at a price that was much lower than any business in town here could offer, so I am hoping that she can help me save some money too.

Even though I hope that David likes it, in the end, as long as I like it, I’ll be happy.  It will be nice to live in a home that looks a little different for a change.