Oh, my, what a whirlwind week! As most of you know, my show was on Saturday and I’m delighted to report that it was a resounding success and so much fun! I posted a few photos on Facebook already but wanted to share them with everyone here to thank you for your encouraging messages and well wishes.
The theme of the event was “Springtime in Paris” and you can imagine we so enjoyed planning and carrying it out. Above is a new image I released at the show, “Paris Above the Clouds“.
The venue was Faded Elegance, my favorite vintage shop (written about here) in Snohomish, Washington, a charming Victorian town filled with the best antique and vintage shops in the state. Our color scheme was black and white stripes with pink accents, and Kimberly McIlrath, the owner (below with me), created the most beautiful awnings and displays for the windows, garnished with pink balloons. I designed many new pendants just for the event, including the Paris Metro one below, and we had a giveaway drawing of one of my prints, a canvas and some postcards.
Below, two more of the new images I released at the show.Below, the entrance to the store and the first of my displays. I had four different pendant displays, and for this one, Kimberly designed a macaron vignette complete with the cutest macaron trinket boxes. Another display featured my images and pendants from Monet’s Garden. The pendants were a very popular item.
And another new image, “Evening at Notre Dame”.Below, the entrance to my show area. Honestly, half the fun of this event was having the run of the store after hours and my choice of Kimberly’s stunning merchandise with which to create displays!More displays of my work. We had a slideshow of Paris images playing continuously in the back at right.
I’d like to extend my gratitude to Kimberly for her enthusiasm and work in creating a beautiful and flawless event; to all my friends and family who came out for the festivities; and to my existing and new clients who embraced and supported my work. Each of you are very much appreciated. And special thanks to D for keeping me {relatively} sane throughout the preps, engineering the slide show and coming up with brilliant solutions for many of the displays. Who knew you were a merchandising genius? :)
Often we launch ourselves into a new activity with no real insight into how it will turn out, don’t we? It may seem like a wonderful idea at the outset but midway through, we might be staggering up in the morning, biting our nails and wondering what on earth we’ve gotten ourselves into. It can be very nerve wracking, can’t it? But in this case, the hard work and late nights were so worth it. I wouldn’t have changed anything. We even had blue skies and sunshine!
Much more news but we’ll leave that for a bit later as I’ve taken enough of your time now. In the meantime, a selection of the new prints and pendants are in the shop.
And you’ll find a new post at Paris By Two with a link to many, many more Paris images!
Wishing you sunshine and blue skies. A bientôt!
xo
– g
I am so happy for you! What an amazing display, so much attention to detail and the different themes are a fantastic way to display the different moods of your pictures. F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S ;-) Wishing you a blue-sky kind of day :-) Love from London xo
I love everything! All your work and the way to dispaly it is pretty!
We love Paris and your beautiful photos!!
very nice!
Wow! What I would have given to be there! I'm not surprised it was such a success–everything was so beautifully enhanced by the lovely surroundings, making your lovely things stand out even more. Now, what's your next project???
Happy spring,
Debi
Felicidades por tu magnífico trabajo, me parece realmente delicado y ensoñador, y la instalación un marco perfecto!
Gracias, tambien, por tu comentario en mi blog. Un gran abrazo!
What a lovely show for a lovely and talented lady, you. I'm so happy that the show turned out wonderful, and even the weather was great.
Love and hugs ~ FlowerLady
Congratulations on your successful event! The shop is gorgeous and I would love to visit it. Good luck going forward. Linda
How beautiful – what an incredible backdrop for your gorgeous work. Congrats to you!
Dearest sweet G, i love your beautiful settings. I love those gorgeous new prints and pandents! Supper HAPPY that it was such a huge sucess!! Everything looks so perfect and beautiful including all of your displays! Have a lovely merry happy day and love to you!
Yay! I'm so happy that everything went well for you. That shop looks so beautiful…perfect for your pretty creations.
xo
I was just wondering how your weekend went, and figured that we'd get a post here soon enough . .. congratulations!! What a beautiful shop — befitting of all your talent and artwork. Maybe I'll see some of these items at my local Barnes and Noble one of these days soon ! xo
You looks beautiful! What a great shop! And I see macarons – I love macarons!
Hugs
Yvonne
Everything looks so beautiful. That shop is just gorgeous.. so glad to hear that everything went well.
Hugs, Linda
wow! it all looks amazing! bravo~E
Congratulations Georgianna!
Everything looks so beautiful, and it sounds like it was a wonderful success.
Truly so well-deserved!
xo
Dearest Georgianna,
congratulations!! it sounds like you had a great time. All looked splendid (your pink scarf too ;)).
The new images are so beautiful… and I also wanted to congratulate with you on your latest publication in Somerset Life. Those photos are fantastic!
xoxo
Congratulations on your successful show! Wonderful displays & your pendents are really beautiful! =)
Hi Georgianna,
It was so nice to see you and your work being featured and appreciated in such a lovely shop! Your photographs, display and pendents are truly exquisite! I hope in the future I get the opportunity to visit France – what a great place to take photographs!
~Kelly
OH YAY!!!!!! So great to see all the pics from your show!!! So much work you put into it and sooooo classy!! What beautiful displays, pics, jewelry, cards, etc. And a great shop for sure!! You must be so excited that is was a total success!! My only regret – that I couldn't be there to support you!! hugs – tina
Well G, you look absolutely radiant in the photos, not nervous at all! This isn't what I expected for your show but is way better than I could have imagined.
Kimberly has a beautiful shop and along with all your artistic talent showcased, no wonder the event was so successful.
Congratulations, and may this be the first of many shows.
I'm off to check out your links.
Hugs,
Judith
Fabulous, stunning, gorgeous all describe the displays. Congratulations!!!!! May you have many more shows, you are now a pro with stage the planning. Blessing my friend, xox Jen
I CAN'T believe I missed it!!! Your work is incredible!!!
Wow Georgianna! You look so happy and I can imagine you enjoyed it so much! All looked so pretty!!!
wow, Georgianna!! Wow!! This is so exciting!!! I wish I could have been there sooooo badly!! Everything looks so beautiful! Congrats and hugs!!
Dear Georgianna, what a charming event! I would have loved to take part in it. :)
I think you know by now how much I admire your work, but there are three photos here that simply left me speechless: the first one and the other two Eiffel Tower photos displayed side by side. So beautiful! xo
Ada
WOW!! SO exciting! CONGRATS!! The displays are just fabulous!! I too love those eiffel tower prints with the gray frames……..so gorgeous!!!
Way to go, Georgianna! It looks like the show was so much fun! You look fantastic, practically glowing, in the photos. The displays are very clever and appealing. And you even managed to bring on the sunshine…what a miracle! A huge congratulations on your successful show!
Dear Georgianna,
Congratulations on your fabulous show! I wish I could have been there, everything looks so gorgeous! You are amazing!!!! Love, love, love your art! xo
Friday afternoon to you Georgianna. I just (yesterday) completed a book that, if you have not read, you would thoroughly enjoy called 'THE GREATER JOURNEY:AMERICANS IN PARIS'. It commences in the early 1800's and brings one through the 1900's. Most of the names are artists…painters, sculptures, writers, etc. as well as some political figures. I found it quite fascinating and if anyone loves PARIS than they will love this book. The author is DAVID MCCULLOUGH.
Would that I could have attended your event. The pictures capture the essence of the evening. I put PARIS ABOVE THE CLOUDS as my desktop picture. Love it!
Our library has a wonderful DVD on the making of the Eifle Tower and understanding all the difficulties that were encountered and conquered at that time in history is simple amazing. One even gets dizzy when seeing the workers at the heights they had to work at and then when opened to the public one was taken again to the heights of the tower with them. It made me truly appreciate this great work.
You look so young in your pictures. Love your pendants…..
Joyfully,
~Sylvia Faye
Hi Georgianna, I am so glad to hear your show was a success! From your photos, I can see how much fun it must of been! I wish I could of come down and visited to see it all!
Have just stumbled across your blog and have seen that you are a fellow etsy-er! I love when this happens! Have checked your shop out and it's beautiful. You are a very clever lady! This event looks perfect, I hope to work up to something like this eventually with my bags.
Will be favouriting your etsy shop!
Rianna xx
So happy for you!! What a gorgeous display. Your work is beautiful. Congratulations, G ~
Your hard work in getting the show together is evident — it all looks so amazing!!! The images are glowing through my monitor (including the photos of your lovely face!), and the table vignettes are all so inviting. Congratulations, so happy for you!!! xoxo :D
I am delighted this venture was such an enjoyable and successful event for you.
I am so glad for you Georgianna, your displays were so beautiful and elegant ! All the hard work was worth it and you deserve all the success you had. Why do I live in Quebec and not Washington DC ? :) I would have loved to meet you !
Oh! The new images are so so so so beautiful ! I am tempted… And the pendants are lovely, I am tempted..
Congratulations Georgianna: The displays look beautiful. I wish you great success. V
What a gorgeous place and your displays. I hadn't realised you were such a creative artist (I know, that sounds ridiculous, but you have so many talents). Your Paris Above the Clouds pic is wonderful and I could see that on my bedroom wall. The pendantsd are a treat. Hope you had many sales. best from Melbourne, Australia.
Hi Georgianna,
How lovely to get a little glimpse of your gorgeous displays at the show.
Everything looks amazing and I really love the new image, Paris above the clouds, it is so dreamy. Also great to see the beautiful photos of you.
Happy Spring
Hugs
Carolyn
Dear Georgianna you are so beautiful!Nice these images whit your happiness for the show!Congratulations!!!the displays look beautiful.
I wish you great success because you are an artist!
Have a nice week! Monica
Congratulations on a successful event! Your exhibition is absolutely breathtaking. I love everything to do with Paris and macaroons. You are gorgeous too!
:)
Have a lovely week.
xxxx
F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S images and congrats to you! :)
Oh wow, this looks so amazing!! Congratulations on a great show -and a gorgeous place to host it! Looks like a match made in heaven! Love your pink scarf too!
Wow! Looks like you had an amazing event! I so wish I could have been there! All of your displays were stunning and framed your work so beautifully. So happy it was such a success. The loving feeling and tone of your work really shined through, even in your signage. I can see the beautiful touch of Georgianna's unique style in every detail of this event :) Congratulations and much love!
Congratulations Georgianna! Looks like it was a fantastic show, so happy for you!xx
How lovely, darling G! I feel so proud and pleased looking at the pictures! :) :D
Hi G,
Oh My, this looks like it was a fabulous event! I'm so happy for you that all your hard work payed off, I only wish I lived close and could have attended! When you said "show", I envisioned prints on the wall, but this looks like it was a 3D extravaganza. How wonderful for folks to be enveloped in all that beauty!
Bravo to you:)
xo~ Anna
Oh, Dear Georgianna! This event of yours was, no doubt, a delight! Such a great place filled with beautiful installations! I love the pendants, too, and there was even soap, my weakness! :)
Have a beautiful week,
Am lookign forward to see your other projects, as always!
Hugs,
Zara
Hi Sylvia!
I hope you get this. I don't seem to have any other way to respond to you. Thank you so much for the recommendation of the book – I will definitely look into it. David McCullough is a marvelous historian.
And thank you for your kind words about my event and photos.
Wishing you a wonderful weekend ahead.
– g
Your event looked gorgeous; so much fun stuff. Glad to hear it went well. How wonderful it would have been to be able to go.
I'm glad everything went so well! How nice of D to help keep you sane, too ; )
I don't know how you manage to package everything the way you do but your product looks fabulous! The shop is amazing too! Oh, and you look so lovely in pink and white.
Oh wow, how exciting this must have been! I wish I could have been there!
What fun! Congrats on such a perfect marriage of your gorgeous art and her charming shop!! I don't think I could resist such a shop… I'd be there
every weekend! (and LOVE the new tower drop from your pendants!!)
Ever yours,
Sherilyn
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