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    RR, your stuff is beautiful! Sounds like a fun day at the sales. I like chatting with customers, and miss that with being in malls. Just a couple random thoughts from our years of street antique shows - table skirting or full length cloths are very helpful. Ups the professional look, covers the boxes of stuff you stash under them. large plain sheets can help with this, since actual skirting is time-consuming. Your crate idea as backdrop is great! Since most of your stuff, naturally, is similar in height, it's good to figure out ways to elevate items and create a look that's not just a table full of dishes, if that makes sense. What draws you into a booth or stall? Ask your friends what draws them in. Play around with display ideas - always thinking about wind, which can be a huge issues with breakable stuff! Try grouping by color, or type - how does that look to you? Also - some pots of flowers, herbs, succulents setting in some of your containers will add some pop. You can sell them with the planter at a higher price, or you can just say that the plants are display only and move them from dish to pot as stuff sells. Anyway, just some thoughts that may, or may not, work for you have fun selling! You can't keep creating if you don't move some inventory, right?

    IL - love the pots you have. And love the begonia. I bought a couple this spring to plant outside and ended up keeping them in. Love them! Don't know if I can get them to winter over, I only have one good window and in the fall my ferns come back in to reside there, so I don't know.... and in December, they all get moved to the basement under light so the tree can come in for the holidays. It doesn't help that all house plants have to be inaccessible to our salad-loving cats.

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    Early M, I am learning about begonias. So far I am finding them to be thirsty little water hogs. I have a new sun room and for the first time can successfully have houseplants, they get loads of sun. I even had snake plant putting out flowers and I have never seen that.

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    Thanks for the input, Early. This venue was pretty flea-marketlike, so we probably did have the most professional looking display there, but I can see where a more polished display would be even more important in a different setting. I did think about putting plants in a couple of the planters, so maybe I will give that a try next time.
    I have been falling in love with begonias this year. I will have to take and post some pictures. They are toxic to cats and Raymond sometimes nibbles at my houseplants, so I will probably just let them die at the end of the season, but that makes me quite sad.

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    I know they’re toxic to cats so yell at my cat when he gets into the plants. I have one cat who likes to mess around with plants. The other cat, our tiny princess, has no interest in plants.

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    IL: This yelling at your cat strategy - do you find it to be effective? Such has not been my experience.

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    mine, either. our current crop of cats seem impervious to yells, unless they are the ones yelling. both are very fond of greens in all forms and keeping the plants out of cat-reach really limits our ability to house flora of all types.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rosarugosa View Post
    IL: This yelling at your cat strategy - do you find it to be effective? Such has not been my experience.
    Ha ha well, he stops chewing on plants when I’m in the room with him and yell at him to stop. Sometimes I have to get out of my chair and snap my fingers at him.

    As for other bad cat behaviors, no amount of yelling will keep our tiny female cat from jumping up kitchen counters, so I do not even try.

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    I took pictures of these succulent planters to show you guys, but then I don't think I ever posted them:

    succulent planters 1.jpg

    succulent planters 2.jpg

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    Those are very nice, rr!
    To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer." Mahatma Gandhi
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    Those are cute, I’d like their shape.

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