Published

  FOLK Magazine Holiday 2012

includes my feature article on independent retailer 

Down Home Country Antiques in Orange, California

owned by Peggy and Don Arbenz

Photos by Deb Kennedy and Down Home Country Antiques

Published

FOLK Magazine has released their Fall 2012 Issue

FOLK is available in independent shops across the country, 

Barnes & Noble Booksellers, and on Amazon

my profile of American artisan  

Janet Sears of ReStitched USA 

appears on page 53

please visit Janet's etsy store , blog, and facebook page 

for more information about her products

recipe for a pop-up store:

Start with a 50' by 300' empty goat barn at a fairgrounds complex

 Fill a 50' X 50' area with goods from 65 vendors, 

all in inspiring displays and brand-image building scenes,

creating a country store (as shown above)

and then...
go even further:

Drive a vintage truck into the other end

and surround it with hay bales & tables for a bingo game setting

Load in 20 vendor booths filled with antique, vintage, and handmade artisan goods 

(*Note to PA system announcer: Art-I-Sahn, not Ar-teee-si-an)

Do all that in just two days

(yes, TWO days)

and then

Invite 25 thousand people to come shop for three days

 then

tear it allllll down in four hours

and end up with an empty barn again

Sound like fun?

It actually was!

The FOLK Magazine staff, volunteers, and vendors

did a stellar job on this event. 

FOLK Magazine sponsored this venue this month, 

as part of  a larger flea market event in Springfield, Ohio.

Having a pop-up presence for our brand at shows like this

enables us to reach the goal of 'bringing the pages of FOLK magazine to life'

and exposing our vendors & products to a whole new customer base - 

while also sharing what our publication is all about.

We set up another store on Main Street in Beaver Dam, Kentucky

this past weekend, as well (but I wasn't there, so I have no photos of it)

and there are many more in the works!

Have you had any experience with a pop-up store?

What are some of the best ones you've seen?