UCU Wrap-Up

I, Kate Degelau-Pierce, took this crappy iPhone photo
of our lovely booth.

UCU was this past weekend and we had a blast. I should have gone around to take photos of other vendors' booths, but we were pretty busy. We did see a lot of people we already knew like Cakespy and Wooly Bison and Thea Starr; plus we met a bunch of new folks like Constellation & Co and Dolce Lou (who was next to us and a great booth neighbor). I also really like meeting longtime Etsy customers live and in person. It's great to finally be able to put a face to a name or twitter account (hi there InkyCats!)

Susan and I also gave away candy samples for the first time. We've got a way to put just a *little* bit of syrup onto toothpicks and that really helps get out the message about our delicious and creative flavors. We gave out almost 800 samples to show visitors and almost everyone liked them. Yay!

And as a bonus: we won the very last raffle on Sunday afternoon! Here's a photo of what we got. We've already fought over the take and I'm getting the print and the apron while Susan gets the necklace, apple butter, sewing book, and the reusable bag it all came in.

iPhone photo by Kate Degelau-Pierce

All in all: a good weekend. Thanks to all who came and everyone who helped put it together.