Our first Dallas Market is officially in the books!
We attended the Total Home and Gift Market in Dallas, Texas for the first time as an exhibitor with some pretty exciting results.
If you've ever attended a buyers' market, it can be totally overwhelming, exhausting, exciting and exhilarating all at the same time. The Dallas Market Center has 15 floors and attracts 200,000 buyers each year with permanent showrooms and many temporary ones.
As new vendors, we were placed in the "Temps" area with gourmet kitchen goods on the 12th floor - for makers like us who want to be able to meet buyers who have both gift and apparel shops.
Here are our takeaways from this amazing event:
❤️ We met amazing retailers. Many were from Texas small towns and town squares, which is a dream destination for us.
❤️ We had an opportunity to share our love of building quality time in the kitchen and around the table - our handmade apron is a natural extension of this.
❤️ People love our vintage American style and many just stopped to admire! That was a huge compliment and encouragement. We will keep creating for you!
❤️ So honored to meet other vendors. We were able to help each other, have some great laughs and encourage one another in truly unexpected ways.
❤️ With help from our friend Veronica we now have a beautiful booth design ready for other markets.
❤️ So excited to welcome and add three new retailers to our family.
Our brand has always been focused on quality time in the kitchen and around the table but our core business is garment manufacturing. We spend hundreds of hours sourcing materials, fabric, hardware and trim not to mention the hours making our products plus photography, sales, distribution, managing a business, marketing and relationship management.
When you first start in the garment business you don’t know which direction it will grow. Sometimes your product goes vertical (B2C) and sometimes horizontal (B2B). We are excited to say we are doing a combination of both. And the best part is that we get to share life with you - happy times, busy times and creative times too.
Keep creating, make time to be together and above all, enjoy the small moments because they could end up being big.