Behind the Scenes at a Gift Show

This week our team is visiting NY NOW, a huge gift show that takes place each year in New York City. We’ve attended the show ever since our shop opened in 2015, scouring the hundreds of exhibitors to find our favorite goodies to share with you. Vendors from around the country and around the world bring their newest and best designs, setting up inviting displays inside 10’ x 10’ booths to entice passersby.

We do weeks of research and planning before visiting a trade show in order to make the most of our time there. It’s a whirlwind experience! There are far too many booths for us to see them all, so we try our best to learn about the vendors before we visit. Each day of the trade show, we do miles of walking through the cavernous Javits Center in New York City, checking out new designs from our favorite vendors and meeting new ones, stumbling now and then across a fabulous find that we’ve never heard of before. Each night we reconvene over a tasty meal to talk about what we’ve found and what we love best so we can make tough decisions about which goodies belong in our shop. By the end of the four-day show we’ve talked to scores of vendors, ordered our favorite finds, and eaten our way through the city, and we’re ready to make the drive home.

Check out the photos below from this year’s journey to NY NOW!

Before the show

Visiting Yoseka Stationery

Browsing at Top Hat

Dinner at Congee Village

Day 1

Arriving at NY NOW

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Always nice to see Blackwing!

Day 2

Day 3

See you next time, NYC!