Honeybean Weekend Recap

Wow... this weekend! It was a bit of a crazy one. We went into the weekend with just hopes of making a few sales. We knew the Flea Market wasn't our demographic but we were hoping to stir some interest about Honeybean and maybe move some stock out to make room for the new Honeybean designers. Friday started with some awful, awful weather. It was well after noon (or maybe 1pm?) before we could set up. I took a small nap in the backseat of the car in the meantime. Friday wasn't too bad. Not a lot of people were there, with work and all, but we made a handful of sales and we felt decent about it. We locked up at 5 and off to work I went. Work was dead, dead, dead, and the drive home was awful but I woke to head over to the 'bean while Mike had been there since 7am. He was a trooper all weekend. Lord knows I couldn't have done it without him!

slow start on friday
honeybean colored gumballs!

finally some sun!
took a break to look at some other vendors (lovely phones!)
one heck of a team!
well deserved drinks

Saturday was a lot better. Slow to start but if there were 2 people at our booth then there were 15. I don't know how much you'd say a successful weekend would rake in but we are very happy with our outcome. It was the longest day of long days but work was calling again! The bar was almost as dead on Saturday as it was on Friday so I was a bit bitter. Woke up and tried the 'bean again on Sunday and the weather cooperated wonderfully. It was supposed to rain/storm but it missed us completely. Instead it was so very hot! It took us 4 hours to set up on Thursday night but only 1 hour to pack up (thank goodness!) We treated ourselves to some drinks at our favorite Mexican restaurant and then we came home and crashed out to an NCIS marathon.

If you stopped by the booth this weekend, I just want to say THANK YOU! A huge thank you. And thank you to everyone who sent sweet comments, tweets, emails and texts. It means so very much! We already have two booths for October, the big one (!!!) so please come out! We're going to spend the week looking around at some lots in Nashville for this month. If we don't find something we love then we'll arrange for the Grand Opening to be Saturday, October 22nd at the Flea Market! 

Kristi and Elle both stopped by on Saturday and they wrote really sweet blog posts about it all so please check those out if you're interested! I didn't get as many pictures as I wanted to (holy crazy!) but I promise to next time! Kristi's post is HERE (she has shots of the interior!) and Elle's is HERE! Yay! 

Today I have a lot to catch up on! Hopefully I'll be able to pour through my email today, too! I have a couple of sponsor spots left so if you want one, email me! kaelahbee@gmail.com XO

30 comments:

  1. I'm so happy it went well! Your whole setup looked amazing, and I love the gumball machine! :D

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  2. I can't believe you didn't get any rain yesterday! It was raining ALL DAY LONG here. But I'm so glad the weather cooperated for you after Friday. Also glad the outcome was positive, and I can't wait to come back for another visit!

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  3. Amazing!! I'm so happy for y'all, very glad that the kick-off for the 'bean went so well!

    I'm sure it'll be HUGE in no time :]

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  4. I think Elle's blog has been hijacked :\ Every time I go to that link it takes me there for a moment and then I get re-directed to some video site spam.

    Anyway, Honeybean looks great! I wish I could come shop there!! :)

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  5. Looks like a fabulous success! Wish I was there (or you were here)

    Marie @ Lemondrop ViNtAge

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  6. Sounds like it went well! I was following your tweets closely :) Wishing you guys the best. If I was anywhere near Nashville I'd come say hello!

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  7. Congratulations! Wish I could come and support you!

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  8. Oh congrats, I love it!! It'll take us a while to make it around to Nashville, but I will DEFINITELY be buying something from the 'bean when we get there! Do you intend to travel with it at all or stay mostly in the TN area?

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  9. <3 AMAZING. What a kick ass team y'all are. Congrats, congrats, congrats and lets hope each event better than the one before it! ^_-

    Have a lovely day! And hopefully a relaxing one too!!!

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  10. I'm so glad your first proper trip with the bean went so well! And NCIS is always the best way of relaxing. I think there is a problem with Elle's blog though, for some reason I keep getting redirected to spam sites so I can't check out the post :( xo

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  11. I cannot stress enough how much I admire what you are doing. You had a dream and you planned it out and went for it. I am glad you did well at the Flea Market.

    P.S. You and your man look so cute together!

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  12. holy moley i want to check the HoneyBean out.

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  13. Looks like a great time. Lovely photos.

    ♥ sécia
    www.petiteinsanities.blogspot.com

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  14. i love her interior shots! i was at the flea market and saw you guys but for some reason i felt really shy and didn't come look in the bean! now i really wish i would have!

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  15. flea markets and well-deserved drinks...2 of my favorite things!

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  16. Glad it went well. And ofc lovely post as always xxx

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  17. Yay! I'm so glad everything went well for you! (including the weather!) Maybe next month I can visit! :)

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  18. congrats on an amazing opening! how exciting :)

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  19. What a cute post. It looks like such a fun weekend. I hope you had a great time. xo, rv

    http://aneclecticheap.blogspot.com/

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  20. So so happy everything seemed to go well! Your booth and Honeybean looked absolutely darling- I wish I was closer so I could have stopped by!

    <3LJ
    http://littlemisslj.blogspot.com/

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  21. this whole idea is just so amazing. you are so creative! great, great, great!

    love, rach.
    www.so--hi.blogspot.com

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  22. I so wish I lived in TN for this. Let me know when you come to IN and i'll be the first one in line! :)

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  23. Congratulations on your first big weekend! The fact that you got through it all -- crazy weather, working day and night, etc -- proves success to me. :)

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  24. these are such cute and colourful photos! love gumballs <3

    xo zebra and meerkat

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  25. Long time silent reader here. Didn't your shin hurt like hell from having been tattooed just 3 days before?

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  26. I read this from my blackberry a few days ago but don't remember if it allowed me to post... I am so happy all went well over the weekend. I told my family in Nashville to head out there, DK if they were able to or not, but a successful weekend is such a blessing! YAY!

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  27. @Amel - no actually! i went straight from the tattoo shop to the flea market to set up for 6 hours. it was a breeze! i was expecting it to be awful (from what everyone had told me) but it just went really really well and not a single bit of it hurt! kind of pinching myself over it honestly haha

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HEY! Thanks for dropping by. xo KB