Trade Show + Feedback

On Wednesday we had our trade show and it’s safe to say it was a success. Unfortunately since then I have come down with a hell of a sickness and it doesn’t feel like I have much to celebrate. I thought I would be winding down but I somehow I think I will be playing catch up for the rest of rest of the semester! But…enough of that, back to the trade show.

The set up turned out great! Laura forgot to bring the aprons up from the Gold Coast so I was left to buy plain black ones. I’m sure Young didn’t mind! I did bring along my watermelon apron, Ann wore that for the day and loved it.
I skipped the tissue paper pom poms, they were a tad unnecessary and definitely made the set up look even more feminine than I intended. The gingham tablecloth rang true to our vintage theme and gave our area a bit of energy!

We received some really positive feedback about our idea and I was impressed with the response. However, some of the comments that were made, I wish were made earlier…Steven and Ben happened to give us some valuable insight into our project (an outsiders perspective) and it is something that would have helpful at a progress demonstration rather than the final trade. By the end of the project, the candle is burnt at both ends and no matter how many things you want to fix or keep working on you have either run out of time, energy or worse…both!

Based on the feedback we received at the trade show we have a couple more things to work on. Mayi compiled a list of the necessary and potential improvements that we could make to the site before the final submission. I’ve posted them here for future reference: