Hi Everyone! I’m home! I have to say there is NO place like home after a week at quilt market. We had a ball, but we are all tired bunnies! We laughed, talked, shopped, sold, ate, and hardly slept. And what do you think my husband thought when he saw this waiting for him at the airport? Luckily I flew Southwest so I could bring two bags. I only had to pay for a “few” extra. Can you believe these are filled with fabric? Tee Hee! (:Truth be told, this is a display in the baggage claim area of the Sacramento airport. I just couldn’t resist a photo! Don’t you love it? Talk about creative!

It was such an exciting week. And at the end of market I found out that my friend Meg over at Crabapple Hill and myself had both won a booth prize! It was just beyond exciting! I took some photos of her booth so you can get an idea of the unbelievable display.

This is the Christmas section…

This is the Halloween Section…

Meg’s pictures were taken by that famous photographer Anne Sutton. She’s the one who is known for the “weet reams” pillow. You’ve heard of her haven’t you?

My booth photos were taken by that famous photographer Gregory Case!

This is the chandelier I bought after the Houston Quilt Market at Quakertown Quilts. I “had” to have it! Bitty Bird jumped right in! I think she thought it was a nesting place!

Look at those famous pillows…and the now famous concrete bunny. Why is he famous? Because I made my bunny staff go out an buy him in Portland. He weighs a TON but I think he’s why I won the award. I’m sure of it! To get him out to the car we had to strap him on top of a suitcase and roll him out.

Anne Bryson and me! She’s my best friend and she works for Bunny Hill. For those of you who know her, you know how lucky I am. I have to keep that quiet or she may ask for a raise! (: So, what does it take to win Best Single Booth? It takes a team load of people who are willing to put up with me! At every market we set up our booth on the first day, have a meeting over dinner, I think about the booth at night and the next morning we tear down and start again! Really it’s so silly, but I just can’t help it, and now the bunny staff expects it!

It’s things like putting up the valance and then making them take it down so we could sew on the 20 buttons I brought with me. It’s things like my friend Nancy finding the perfect antique planter stand to keep our patterns in and me knowing she has such good taste that if she says it will work I buy it sight unseen. It’s things like Nireko standing on a ladder and steaming all the drapes and quilts for over an hour and then after she’s done, carrying in the concrete bunny all the way from the loading dock. It’s things like moving all the furniture around while I stand outside the booth and say yes or no. It’s things like moving the quilts around over and over until each on is displayed in the perfect way.

Thank you bunnies for ALL your help. I obviously couldn’t do it without you! I’d be winning the “good try but didn’t make it award”. (:

Next post you’ll get pictures of my famous friends and more wonderful booths!

Hi everyone! The bunnies are here in Portland! Beautiful Portland, where the grass is green and the temperature is 95! We arrived and had 2 days of the most wonderful cool weather and then on opening day of market the temperature climbed to 95!

We are having so much fun! At the end of the day we can barely move we are so tired, but then we get some sleep and ta da…you get a post from Portland! Just going to show you some quick pictures because the rest of the bunnies will leave me if I don’t get ready to go soon! So here come the photos…

Front of the convention center. See those glass towers in the background? Pretty, Pretty!

Look who stopped by during set-up! I was just so excited! Mark Lipinski from Quilter’s Home Magazine! Can you believe it? For all of his fans who have been following his blog, he is here and feeling better after a long fight with pneumonia.

Thursday night was sample spree. Exhibitors sell previews of patterns and fabric. Joe and Roxie Wood from Thimble Creek Quilt Store were our very first customers! The first sale! Should I frame it? (:

Sample spree is beyond any one’s wildest dreams. Moda sets up piles and piles of their newest fabrics to sell! Fabric! Here’s Jelly Rolls and Layer Cakes packaged together!

More Jelly Rolls and Layer Cakes!

Here’s the Moda staff setting up the sample spree booth. The cutie waving in the background is Lissa Alexander, Moda’s marketing director. She is one of my very favorite people in the whole world! Yes, the whole world!

Here’s what it looks like as they set up…

Here’s what it looks like when they open the doors…people RUN to the Moda booth, and I do mean RUN. You can feel the floor vibrate. It’s so amazing to watch!

Gotta go get ready for today. LOTS more pictures to come!

Hugs to you all!

Anne (:

It’s one week until I leave for Portland and yes, I am counting the days. I could use a few more days in the week, but at some point I just have to say I’m done. I’m trying to finish all my last minute things, making lists and making them again. My husband still has to fireproof all the drapes with this awful liquid stuff, and make a rod to hang my cute little candle chandelier. No easy task for sure but that’s why we have husbands! Right?

Remember those little pillows I showed you awhile back? Well, I’m desperately trying to photograph them myself because I can’t get my photographer here in time. So I took this pretty picture, uploaded it to my computer and then realized “Oh No!” The pillow actually says weet reams instead of Sweet Dreams. Would you buy a pillow that says weet reams? Come on, just for me? That way I don’t have to redo the photo. LOL! Ok, I’ll redo it, but it’s your fault if I’m not ready for market!

Now look who wants a first class seat on the airplane? It’s Bitty Kitty! She’s been a trouble maker for sure. It took five times to get her “just right”. That poor little body has gone from skinny to plump. Then she wouldn’t let me put pins in her so I had to add a mouse. Finally I have a Bitty Kitty Pincushion to go with Bitty Bird and Bitty Bunny. She sits in a saucer, just wishing for some milk. (:

So now it’s back to the photo shoot. Wish me luck. Weet reams everyone!