Kyle took a picture on Friday of Sarah and I in our custom 'P' and 'B' screenprinted tights, courtesy of Calpurnia Peach. Dig it. The picture dictated our blog's new black/gold/grey color scheme and we feel much more badass now, excuse the language...or don't, either way.
So Friday's Holiday Bazaar was extremely fun and successful! We sold 5 or 6 headbands, many of them being the extremely festive (we love it) holiday headbands! We were told there were plenty of Santa pub crawls happening this weekend so we were happy to have something to offer that fit the bill!
*Disclaimer: Yes, I need a new camera. The pictures are too bright, color is off or too fuzzy. Thanks Nikon Coolpix...cool? No.
Marlene (above) from Candied Yams jewelry purchased this candy cane headband while Katie (above middle, with her boyfriend Jim, and Elizabeth) bought a similar peppermint ring headband to wear to a holiday party on Friday night. Marlene was a real sport and passed out our cards later that night to anyone who commented on her headband. Walking advertisements rule, yes, "rule".
Our friend An was a real sport and wore the coordinating "Lucy" bow headband over his winter hat during the party...which gave us an idea (with Kayla's amazing insights!) for new adorned warm winter headbands. More to come.
Here's Katie modeling our "Bojangles" holiday ornament headband. Bojangles sold this Saturday along with 5 other headbands. A woman came in and purchased 5 total holiday headbands. 2 for a pub crawl she was going to Saturday night...and the other 3 would be for gifts. Sweet!! We were so happy to see the really kooky ones blow out, like the mini top hat, Christmas gifts "Tinsel Town" headband, our tin ornament with maribou "Maybelle" etc.
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"Tinsel Town".
"Maybelle" tin and maribou headband.I pretty much hogged the top hat most of the night...but was able to let go...just this once..for Rachel (Sarah's sister and our favorite headband model, below). She also helped with the cocktail waitressing and schmoozing which was awesome! Anna Lee requested we make more top hats so we are on it!
Sarah is wearing "Esmerelda" (peach ribbon wrapped band with clear sparkle branches and gemstones) which was purchased yesterday by Anna Balego's mother! Thank you for your support! It was gorgeous with her hair color and we hope to see some pictures of her wearing it very soon, hint hint.
Elizabeth (below) was an amazing cocktail waitress during our party on Friday and wore our maribou 'hat box' headband (which was then sold on Saturday). She greeted guests, explained the theme and purpose of the boutique, ensured guests were escorted to the photo booth for their holiday photo favor, carried a tray of goodies, introduced both Sarah and I to those shopping our headbands and directed people to the beverages (very important). Well done darling, well done. I kept trying to place her look within a vintage decade, but couldn't decide which one it would be...the 30's? With the top hat on I felt like I should have had tap shoes on! I did a few steps, for good measure (time step to be exact).
Also, an enormous thanks to Anna Lee (MNfashion and Ruby3 founder) for working at/attending our event. She switched between several headbands throughout the night and was a wonderful walking advertisement for P&B. She left the shop wearing "Scarlet" and we hope it received a positive response at her meeting later that night. Below left she is wearing 'Back to the Fuschia' which is still available. Beth (right) purchased "Elena" which she is wearing below. The little cameo button was perfectly classic on her.
Elena w/ cameo pin- We've created another version with no cameo called Elise. It is currently at the boutique.Back to the Fuschia.
Kate was drawn to the "Sienna" headband featuring a tan feather spray, pill box tin with gemstones, peach ribbon and white/gold zipper flower. She was really torn about whether to buy it...and luckily last night was her birthday party so I wrapped it up for her. Perfect fit, we think.
Ashley and Jeff came out to support P&B and had some fun in our photo booth too (pics in the next post). Kyle (right with Sarah (Beans) his soon to be spouse) was our photog for the night (and for all our close up pro-pics). Well done sir...much appreciated!
Overall we had a ton of fun....honestly. There was such a strong showing of support from our friends and family...and quite a bit of outside traffic. The energy was really nice all night and the music inspired a mini dance party. Well, it was just me 80's dancing to the Cure but a few glasses of wine will do that to you. I think another success was our Pea's & Bean's Holiday '09 look book. It allowed everyone to see what we have made even if it was already sold. This helped people decide how to custom design an item as well by showing our available materials.
Thank you thank you thank you all again! We couldn't have pictured a more successful night!
P&B
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