Well it is that time of year again - Spring Market.  This year Market is in Minneapolis, MN and I am again acting as guest blogger.  You may ask “why, why on Earth would the fabulous Lizzie B Girls entrust someone else to do their blog?” You would be right in questioning their judgment. Shoot, even I am questioning their judgement.  Truthfully though, I doubt that they are having me write their blog this week because they are amused by my whit and whimsy.  I suspect that they are just too tired and swamped to try to fit in another thing.

If you don’t go through the process of setting up a booth at Market, you may not understand what it is that the Lizzie B team goes through to be ready for the market doors to open.  I’m going to give you a little bit of a look into the crazy schedule that is Market Set-Up.

The Lizzie B Team - Liz, Beth, Mama C and Christine (me) arrived in Minneapolis yesterday afternoon.  We made our first stop at Rosebud’s Cottage to pick up booth boxes that were shipped to Roseann Meehan Kermes http://rosebudscottage.typepad.com/. Roseann was so kind to take boxes for us.  We were surprised that we only had 4 boxes to take with us and one of those boxes was Skipper (the oven). Yikes, what would our booth even look like with such a small amount of stuff?

Here are Liz and Beth with Roseann.  She’s got the perfect set-up.  And she has this awesome mini lilac tree blooming and smelling so much like Spring.  I just had to snap a picture of it.

We met up with Pat Sloan later Thursday evening for dinner at the Melting Pot.  You can read more about it on Pat’s Blog.  http://www.patsloan.typepad.com/

The night didn’t end after dinner because that would have been too easy. There was a mad rush to Target to buy ingredients for cookies.  Now you may think that you’ve had the Lizzie B Cre8ive cookies before but you may have to think again.  These cookies are featured in the new Tuscadelphia book that can be purchased from Kansas City Star.  You can also see it at booth 2017 this weekend.  It was a very late night making cookies with Liz working her fingers to the bone just so that the ladies at School House would be able to sample the yummy munchies.

This morning it was an early trip to the convention center, some set up the trips to our favorite shops to add some embellishments.  Are we done?  Nope.  Are we close?  Yep.  Here is your sneak peek.

Do you notice how bright eyed and cheery Liz and Beth look? Or do you think they are looking a little flat?

Now here it is after midnight and Mama C is trying to snooze while the Glee soundtrack is playing a little rendition of Aerosmith, Liz is baking cookies (still) and singing into the cookie mic, Beth is uploading documents to get ready for tomorrow and I am sneaking around taking pictures of them and posting them to the blog. Bwahahahahaha (as my daughter would say).

As you can see, we are a little worse for the wear but for the most part still going.  If you’re in town, come see us at Booth 2017, check out our new book and see samples of our fabric line shipping in late November.