Archangel Holiday Boutique 2016

We held a fundraising event, Archangel Holiday Boutique 2016, on October 7th and 8th 2016. I’d been preparing for this boutique for one year as one of the organizers, starting from December 2015. Finally, we finished two event days in a success 🙂

There were 3 organizers, and we had meetings once or twice per month. There were several difficulties in proceeding the event preparation, but over all, I’ve enjoyed doing them. We picked up over 20 high quality local artists, scattered flyers and post cards in down towns across the Bay Area, and made new website and kept posting on SNS pages.

The event venue preparation was also a lot of work, but the main organizer did really a great job about it. I personally enjoyed decorating the venue 2-3 days before the event dates.

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Making lots of decorations

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We’ve made banner. I like it 🙂

On the event days, I was working as a cashier, and greeted guests. Thanks to the gorgeous weather, I had suntanned… oops…

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I also worked as one of the artists. I even had my booth there 🙂

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NatsuDesign booth at the boutique 🙂

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My most popular item was this “made of cotton” pearl jewelry 🙂

I loved talking to customers face to face, and giving some advices!!

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Hope she loves her pearl necklaces now 🙂

The venue looked really beautiful.

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I’ve made some new artist friends 🙂 With my favorite artists -an owner of Aplat, a culinary tote store, and that of Flowie, an original textile bags and accessory products.

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I’m so happy to have spent my whole year to this fundraising event!! Our goal, to raise funds in support of local foster children and to spread awareness of the current need for more volunteer mentors, seems to be ended up in a good results 🙂

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With volunteer stuffs and great local artists 😀

I won’t be joining in the organizer team for 2017 since I’ll be very busy with my own life, but hope this event will continue for good cause!!

TIPS 4 health & beauty evnet

With my other skilled friends who shares the same interest in health & beauty, we opened a 1 day only petit boutique at a rental event space. We named the event as “TIPS 4 – health & Beauty”.

I sold handmade jewelry, another sold handmade cream and the other sold vegan sweets. For the event, I prepared some new designs 🙂 The theme is “Spring”! They will be also coming to my web shop soon 🙂

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Here is the photo of vegan sweets.

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Here are the handmade creams without anything chemical, but only with natural ingredients.

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Here is my jewelry section. I need to learn how to display the items nicely…

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I also used a model photo streaming. I hope this helped people to get an idea how it will look on them 🙂

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We also had some free sessions that everyone can enjoy! Yoga.

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Craft workshop, a bracelet making.

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It was our first attempt, but we had so much fun and I hope the visitors also had lots of fun 🙂 I’m already looking forward to our next boutique day. Thank you so much for those who supported the event and those who visited us 🙂