We held the Kentucky Kids Consignment Louisville sale September 9-12 (Wednesday to Saturday) and the Kentucky Kids Consignment Elizabethtown Sale September 20-26 (Sunday to Saturday). In between those, I took the Overstock Designs boutique liquidation inventory to another consignment sale in Knoxville, TN and set up a booth.

We held two Overstock Designs events, one in Lexington and one in Louisville, in October. We set those up on Thursday nights and packed them up on Saturday afternoons. I’ve taken the inventory to two small booths and also set up for a weekend at the Louisville Junior League Holiday Market. What a whirlwind of packing, unloading, selling, loading, and packing again – it’s been great!

Louisivlle Fall 2009 Sale

Elizabethtown Fall 2009 Sale

Elizabethtown Fall 2009 Sale

Overstock Designs Booth

Overstock Designs Lexington

Overstock Designs Louisville

I’m tired. And happy. And ready to pack up some of the supplies until August, when the fun will start again.

We were thrilled with how Overstock Designs went since this was the first time we’ve had those sales. It was so fun to get all the cute clothes, tag them, then watch them go to new homes. The consignment sales went equally great, both were the biggest sales we’ve ever had in each location. We added a day to the Elizabethtown sale and were very glad we did so. I wrote some BIG checks to my sellers.

Next fall, Thing One and Thing Two will be in kindergarten, which will change our childcare situation during sales. Granna or Mimi will need to come to our house and stay with them instead of them going off to Camp Granna or Camp Mimi for the week.

I’m still trying to dig through the piles of papers and put the house back together. Maybe I’ll attempt to blog every day in May?

We chose a day with the worst possible weather to schlep the four of us 90 minutes up the highway for this adventure. It rained all. day. long. We left the house about 8:30 AM and arrived just after the 10 AM opening.

We had a loose plan in place. We needed to retrieve an Expedit entertainment center for my mother and a large quantity of blue shopping bags to use at the sale. Outside of that, we just wanted to see what there was to see.

Once we passed through the sacred blue and yellow entrance, we were greeted with a huge Christmas tree decorated with stuffed animals. As we rode up the escalator, always a harrowing experience ever since that unfortunate incident at Sears last summer that ended with a sobbing Thing One at the top of the escalator and Thing One’s right shoe at the bottom of the escalator, we realized we were woefully unprepared for this adventure.

Thing Two could have spent hours hugging all the stuffed animals in the children’s department, but we finally convinced them to spend a little time in the play area so DH and I could wander the showroom, dutifully following the arrows on the floor, not wanting to miss a single Mysa or Detolf.

Nearly four hours later, full of meatballs and lingonberries, we loaded up our Expedit, Hajdeby, Mixa, Iris, Bygga, Kalas, Pyssla, Mula, and 150 of the 59 cent tote bags in the back of the truck and pulled out of the crowded parking lot. I’ve already gone through the catalog trying to decide how many pieces of Billy we need for the basement.

We started setting up the building on Tuesday night and the last item left late last night. We were overwhelmed with donated items and ended up processing most of those this morning. I did something fun with my camera this time, but I’ll need to wait until I have a large chunk of time to work on it.

Can’t wait to watch this one come together!