First Impressions of High Point Highlights
Ashley and I just returned from High Point Market and I thought I’d share our first impressions. In its 85 years, I’ve concluded High Point has grown like Topsy into a maze of spaces and buildings.
The 3rd floor terrace is a great place to get some rays as well as socialize at sunset.
First impressions of our hotel was its location, location, location. We didn’t need shuttles, Hogs or pedicabs but I regret not packing a pedometer. Harley-Davidson had a raffle in support of Susan G. Komen and October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The pink bears were cuddly and I got one for my granddaughter.
We mapped out a plan of attack to cover as much ground as possible and see all the exhibitors we had flagged because you just CAN’T do it all!
A surprise was seeing Traditional Home opened to the page with Mary Douglas Drysdale’s Signature Colors for us in a display at Currey & Company.
These models were attracting attention in a booth for a pillow company.
A moment’s respite in the Coastal Living Collection booth helped refresh us. Only thing lacking was the sound of the ocean.
It wasn’t all work. Every day ended with parties and live entertainment. Ashley attended the B52 concert with friends. I lasted 30 minutes at that. We attended a huge party at Hickory Chair’s show rooms with Mary Douglas Drysdale. Hickory’s president, Jay Reardon, was beaming about the pending birth of his first granddaughter and it was nice to have a non-business chat about the joys of grand-parenting.
Ashley will write in detail about the party and has more pictures, so watch for her upcoming posts.
Back to work first impressions: we attended seminars including Leslie Carothers’ Breakfast in Bed with Leslie: Waking Up to the Power of Social Media with clever staging, two presentations by Libby Langdon, who is just as effervescent in person as on TV, and Tobi Fairley offered a program on value-added interior design that was loaded with information.
More to follow-The New Orleans Connection and posts featuring two designers.
– Lorre Lei
P.S.-After I wrote this post, I started checking 270 emails and saw that Becky Harris had done an ideabook for Houzz titled 10 Highlights from High Point, so please look at her post. (Great minds, Becky, think alike with titles!)
Also, in relation to my breast cancer awareness mention, here’s a great reference: The Ultimate Guide for Financial Resources for Cancer Patients from CouponChief.
Oh my gosh, too funny! My editor actually came up with the title – my brain was MUSH after that whirlwind trip! I’d love to meet up with you next market if I have the chance to go – I was CLUELESS as to how to begin to map out what to hit and where to go!
Becky