Category Archives: market

Show & Tell

Posted on October 14, 2012 by ginabean • 2 Comments
Front Entrance Euro Collection

Front Entrance

Front – Euro Collection

Front- Euro Collection

Table in Euro Collection

Waterfront Collection

Waterfront Collection

Artifacts Collection

Artifacts Collection

Retreat Collection

Retreat Collection

Boho Collection

Boho Collection

Wine Country
200+ hours over the last 21 straight days, and it is finally finished! I’m exhausted, my kids vaguely remember what I look like and my husband has managed his stint as a single parent. Sitting here writing this is probably the first time I have sat with my feet up over the last few weeks. It was a good experience, but I’m glad it’s over. There were over 600 items to be packed in a limited space, so some creative stacking and packing was involve. You can probably tell that from the pictures. Mike Sandel, that artist who creates this beautiful art and furniture was by my side the entire process and made it fun. Surprisingly- there were no freak outs on my part. Now….on to some quilting. 
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This Little Piggy Went to Market

Posted on October 10, 2012 by ginabean • 6 Comments
It has been a long couple of weeks setting up the Guildmaster showroom for the High Point International Home Furnishings Market, but it’s almost over! Yeah! If all goes well, tomorrow will be my last day. Then it will be back to quilting. I have lots of pictures to share with you, but for now I thought I would just give you a little sneak peak. 
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Yeah! It’s Over

Posted on October 15, 2010 by ginabean • 2 Comments
Well, another furniture market bites the dust! I cannot tell you how tired I am and glad that setting up for furniture market is over. It is usually hard work, but being pregnant while doing it is exhausting. The showroom looks fabulous and I hope that Guildmaster has a successful market. I spent the morning doing laundry and I think that this afternoon you will find me working on putting booty prints in the sofa and catching up on my Netflix.
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I Couldn’t Resist

Posted on September 28, 2010 by ginabean • 6 Comments
I’m pretty lucky that I get to put my Interior Design degree to use twice a year and work at the High Point International Home Furniture Market. I help put together the Guildmaster showroom. Doing this has plenty of advantages, one being that every once in a while I get to bring home a great piece of furniture like this! My husband would argue that we have too much furniture and I have to admit that it did take quite a bit of figuring and rearranging to find a place to put this, but I just couldn’t resist. I had something special in mind for it. (By the way, my husband loves moving furniture around for me. He didn’t complain once. Yeah, right. But hey, that’s what he gets for marrying a designer. Designers like to move furniture around a lot.)
I wanted to a place to display my quilts and this fit the bill perfectly. I have been wondering what the heck I was gonna do with all these quilts I have. Lately they have been getting stacked up in the crib in the nursery, but since that space will be occupied soon, I needed to do something with them. So, Viola! And doesn’t that cute little Featherweight tuck in there perfectly!
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Back to My Routine, Sort Of

Posted on October 19, 2009 by ginabean • 3 Comments
For things to be crazy and busy in my life is pretty much the norm, but for the last 2 weeks, it has been uber busy and uber crazy. I wanted to update everyone on the quilt I made to raffle off for the Rally For The Cure Golf Tournament to support Breast Cancer Research. The tournament was last Wednesday and Laurie Borgerson was the lucky winner. All totaled, the raffle raised $906. Thanks to all of the ladies from Oak Valley and my quilting buddies for selling tickets and buying tickets. There is no way we could have sold that many without you! The golf tournament was a big success. I think they raised much more than they ever expected. I was glad I got to be a part of it. I wish I could have attended the tournament, but I was working at the furniture market.

Furniture market was fun and exhausting, as usual. I love helping to set up the showroom, but I am always glad when it is over and I can get back to my “normal” routine. I thought I would share a few pics of the showroom.

Isn’t the chest on top of the dresser fab! As always, we have a lot of product to show and not enough space, so we have to get creative with our displays.
Mike Sandel, the talented artist who paints all the furniture and develops the product painted the floor in this area. Not a bad way to spruce up some boring concrete, huh!

Here is some new product with a little modern feel.

Coastal, very romantic this time.

New chest painted with beautiful sunflowers. I’m not a huge fan of sunflowers, but I do love this chest. It would look good in my foyer.

As always, everything came together and looks great. High Point International Furniture Market started on Saturday and runs through the week. After I wrapped things up there on Friday, I came home to my waiting husband and little boy who had the truck packed and ready to go to the mountains. It was cold and rainy at the mountains, but after a week and a half of market, it was nice to relax there.
Fletcher has a little bit of a cold today, so I kept him home from preschool. It’s that time of year I guess. These colds come on so quickly. I think I’m getting it, too. Who has time to be sick? Not me!
Needless to say, I have gotten very, very little sewing done. I haven’t even had time to do laundry, let alone sew. This week will be spent playing catch up on everything I have pushed off to the side. There are quilts and stockings and purses and dirty bathrooms, and dishes and the grocery store and….you get the picture. A lot!

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Nothin’ Like Waiting Until the Last Minute

Posted on October 7, 2009 by ginabean • 3 Comments
Today is the day. I start working furniture market today. I got the panels I needed to make for the Guildmaster showroom done Last night. Sheww. Glad that’s done! I also got the fabric I needed last night to make the last of the Flexsteel Showroom treatments. I think I was the UPS man’s last delivery of the day. The fabric got here about 6:30pm. I decided to go ahead and get those drapes done so they wouldn’t be hanging over my head. They were completed about 11:00pm. Sheww. Glad those are done, too. My posts might be few and far between until market is over. Hope everybody has a good week and I’ll try and post pictures of the showroom as the week goes along.

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Guildmaster Showroom

Posted on April 23, 2009 by ginabean • 1 Comment

The New Italian Collection

Last markets french inspired Canopy Fields Collection


Introduction to Home Office


Waterfront Collection
Yeah! The showroom is done! Market doesn’t technically open until Saturday and it is already done. Having it completed this early is definitely a first. Usually, it is completed in the early morning hours of the opening day. It looks great and I’m really proud of all the work we did. The furniture looks the best it ever has and the new finishes on the product are wonderful. As promised, I’m showing some pictures. I have to say that my picture taking really does not do it justice. Despite the fun of my little stint back in the design world, I am glad to be home and ready to catch up on some of my sewing projects. I haven’t used a sewing machine or even been in my sewing room for over a week!
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Back to Normal

Posted on April 22, 2009 by ginabean • 2 Comments

My life is finally close to getting back to normal, or what I consider normal. Today is going to be my last day of setting up for furniture market. I am taking my camera today so I can share all that we have done. The showroom looks the best it ever has. I’m exhausted and I have piles and piles of laundry and housework waiting for me when I’m done. I also have a little boy that I have been missing and can’t wait to spend time with him. The laundry can wait!
All this work designing at market has also inspired a redo of my living room and I’ll share that too as soon as I get caught up.
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Furniture Market

Posted on April 17, 2009 by ginabean • 1 Comment

This week I started working at Furniture Market in High Point. I help a dear friend set up the Guildmaster Showroom. We have to fit a lot of furniture in a limited amount of space, so we have come up with some pretty creative ways to display things, including hanging furniture from the ceiling. The picture is from the Design Fusion Collection which was introduced a couple of markets ago. It is great fun and I always enjoy the time I get to spend setting up. It is exhausting and there are some late nights, but the final result is always beautiful and creative and inspiring. I’ll post pictures of this market soon…
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