We are so excited! We had so much fun doing Focus in January. It was our first trade show. And, as newbies, we were so nervous. Like, for instance, I made copies of our tri-fold brochure and didn’t notice that the pictures were low resolution so we got 1,000 blurry pictures of our jewelry. Fun! We had never set up a trade show booth before so we had all of this useless stuff and got into huge arguments over how to decorate it. Fun! We got 2 hours of sleep on the first day because we didn’t have line sheets made (because all of the jewelry wasn’t made yet.) Did I say Fun?! Way Fun!!

But seriously, those were all of the perfect mistakes and experiences for a first time trade show duo and we wouldn’t trade them for anything. . .except maybe the $700 for the blurry brochures. . . that really sucked.  But during the trade show itself we got to meet so many people who are doing the exact same thing we are doing. Some were also new, but most had done this for many years and now make their living going from show to show. It was really inspiring for us because Jimbob and I love to show off. . . our jewelry, our personalities, and our fabulous style. So doing trade shows is way up our alley.

This show is going to be unlike our last show. Firstly, our merchandise was mainly manly. As in it was men’s jewelry . . .a very interesting idea for a ladiez fashion trade show. And we out priced everyone by millions of dollars. So this time we are bringing only women’s jewelry. And we are leaving the really amazing stuff at home (actually everything is in stores . . .so we will be leaving it there.) And we will be bringing a simpler more affordable line of women’s jewelry. But we will still probably out price a lot of the other jewelry lines there because our stuff is made HERE IN THE USA . . .LOS ANGELES TO BE EXACT. And everyone else’s is made “over seas”. I have nothing against that because everyone does it. And if you intend to compete in a market where people make the same exact thing that you do and can do it for $3 then you had better find a way to get it made for $2.50 to be able to compete. We at Jenny & Jimbob choose to avoid that entire scenario by making TOTALLY AWESOME THINGS THAT NO ONE ELSE CAN OR EVER WILL MAKE. So it doesn’t matter where we make it. But we choose make it here in LA because we live here and it would be impossible to make it anywhere where we don’t live because WE MAKE IT OURSELVES.

That said. . . this show is going to be amazing. And I can’t wait to show off everything we have been making these last 3 months.

You gotta see it!!

We are off to downtown to buy black diamonds. . .

Sweet!!