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If you sell a lot of smalls you are going to need shelving. I'm always on the look out for cute shelves and bookcases as these seem to do really well for me. I recently did a search on the internet to find some ideas. Pinterest can be your best friend when looking for inspiration. We thought we would show you what we came up with.

Most of these images came from Pinterest. I added credits if they were obtained from another site. If you know of a credit that is missing, please let us know as we do not like to intentionally leave these off. Thanks and enjoy!

Via: Oliver & Rust

I love the look of stacked crates. You can always easily move them around and take them away. via: EclecticallyVintage.com

I love this next idea because of the chippy, weathered wood behind it. I may have to borrow it

If you have room in your booth, this is a cute idea too. Stack smaller bookcases on a table

This page called: Living Vintage has a lot of great ideas

So this next idea is kind of in the shelving category. I love that it could be used not only for gloves, but hankies, tea towels and more

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Old Doors as Displays and Room Dividers

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From time to time we get questions from dealers asking how they can define their area when they are not allowed to put up walls, or there are no existing surfaces for them to attach to. Old doors to the rescue. They make great temporary walls, room dividers and displays. You can use solid doors, old screen doors or even the tall shutters.

I was perusing Pinterest the other night looking for some ideas and came across lots eye candy. It's amazing to me what some folks can come up with. I thought I would do a quick post and pass along the inspiration. If you have used old doors in your booth feel free to share pics with us. You can send them to boothcrush@gmail.com and we may just use them in our blog post.

The following pics were taken from Pinterest. Enjoy!

This next idea is great for outdoor shows. They lightweight shutters can easily be broken down and set back up. You can also use them in store as well. Just add L brackets to the bottom. The brackets can found at your local hardware store.

This kind of wood would be pretty with lamp behind it and some shelving. It would seem like you are peeking through the window.

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Creating Your Own Price Tags

Antique Booth Price Tags

We wanted to do a follow up post from yesterday's article called: The Skinny on Price Tags In case you missed it, just click on the title to be taken to that page. We found a lot of you like making your own digital tags. For those of you that are new to this concept there are several ways to make tags and all those are mentioned in the last post.

If you are going to be making tags that are printed off from your home computer you will need a software program for this. You can find FREE programs out there like Pic Monkey, Pixlr and Be Funky. Again these are free and do very basic commands. However, if you are familiar with graphic design and want something with a lot more bells and whistles you can use programs like Photoshop, Corel Paint Shop Pro or others.

Either way you decide to go, you are going to need two things. Clip art, and fonts.

Clip Art: Is a ready-made usually copyright-free illustrations sold in books or as part of a software package from which they may be cut and pasted or inserted as artwork. Here are a few samples.

Fonts: A font is a set of printable or displayable text characters in a specific style and size. Here are some samples of both cursive and plaint fonts.

Clip art and fonts can both be found on the web. There is a big world out there full of both. I will list sources down below. Please be very careful when selecting images or fonts because some of them may be copyrighted. What is copyright? Click here for an explanation.

Let's start with fonts. The two websites I use are: Dafont and Fontspace. There are more, but these are my go to sites. If you are not sure how to install these fonts just go to Youtube and do a search for "How to install fonts" there are lots of videos that walk you through the process step by step.

When you are about to select a font you will want to make sure the author of the font allows for commercial use. It will say either Free, For Personal Use or donate to author. You can make a small contribution to the author usually through paypal and then you are free to use the font if it says, donate to author.

Usually out beside the font, it will state how it can used. See sample below where I have drawn the arrow.

If you love vintage graphics, my all time favorite go to source, is The Graphics Fairy. Karen, the owner has kindly devoted so much time and energy to an ever growing database with free clip art. And guess what? It's all vintage inspired. You can find any and everything your heart desires here. Just check out some of these images. Click on images to enlarge and for the largest size, please visit her site.

Can you believe all these gorgeous images? You can spend all day on her site and still not see everything. But there are other sites out there that offer vintage clip art, just do a google search for "Free Vintage Clip art" and you will find lots of sites. Some other sites I like to use are: Clker Oh So Nifty Vintage Graphics Far Far Hill

Of course, there are some sites that charge a small fee like Etsy. There are millions of graphics that can be purchased and downloaded instantly through Etsy. Another place I purchase vintage graphics from is Neare Store. But feel free to do your search to see what you come up with too.

Clip art is everywhere. Look around your home. You will find clip art on old greeting cards, advertisements, wrapping paper etc. Now you are wondering how to get that clip art onto the computer. Well, that's where having a scanner comes in handy. I remember when scanners first came out there were so expensive. In fact, I still have my first Canon Scanner. I think I paid over $100 for it and it still works great. Nowadays you can find a built in scanner with printers for relatively cheap. They are usually 4-1 which will, copy, print, fax and scan.

The possibilities are endless when it comes to creating price tags. If you decide to print your own tags, you don't have to use plain boring cardstock paper. You can find fun cardstock paper at your local hobby store. It comes in different colors and patterns. There are some fancy hole punchers you can use to embellish the edges of your tags or to even create shaped tags like mason jars, deer heads, hearts, etc. Just take a stroll around your hobby store and you are sure to be inspired.

We hope this blog post helps to shed a little more light on creating your own tags. Youtube has all kinds of tutorials on just about anything you can imagine. I first started watching makeup tutorials years ago, but soon discovered they have a video for just about anything out there. So if you get stuck, just check to see if there is a tutorial out there. So good luck and happy creating!

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The Skinny on Price Tags

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I think it's safe to assume we all love pretty packaging. I mean who doesn't? As vintage dealers we spend a lot of time creating visually appealing booth spaces. So why not go the extra mile and add a unique tag that compliments your design style.

We recently hosted a thread on our Facebook page and asked dealers to share their price tags with everyone. We had a great response and found out a lot of folks create their price tags. There are a couple of ways of doing this.

Handmade With Professional Printing

Some dealers are using at home software programs like Photoshop, PaintShop Pro etc. They generate a design on the computer and then print them at home or have them professionally printed. If you don't have of these programs readily available, you can find free editing software online. Here are a few popular ones: Pixlr, BeFunky, or Pic Monkey.

Once you have created your image, you can then upload the the design to professional printing companies like VistaPrint, Overnight Prints, and Printrunner and they do the rest for you. These programs are very user friendly and they also offer their own editing program which means you can use one of their premade templates, or make your own design.

Not design savvy? No worries! You can also enlist the help of a Graphic Designer. Etsy has a plethora of skilled designers. Just do a search for price tags and you will find all kinds of designs. If you don't see anything you like you can also do a search for custom designs and have a graphic designer create sometime unique for you. I am a self taught graphic designer and one occasion I have created Facebook banners, Business Cards and price tags for other dealers. This is another creative outlet for me and when time allows I really enjoying creating new designs.

Traci Bonacorsi Johnson ordered these burlap inspired tags from Etsy.

Here are some samples from our readers:

Rebecca Weber from Lola Made shared these tags:

I design my own price tags and business cards and send the files to a print shop in south Florida. $44 for 1000 cards. $22 for 250 biz cards...including shipping.

Crissy Kenny Sayers from Bird's Nest share these cuties and she has them printed at PrintRunner.com

Cay Donner Miller from Cay's Place shared these cute tags.

Customized online on 'build a sign' .have used vista print also. Just ordered more!

Center part is for description of item. And I put the heart where I am going to punch my hole, so when I'm in a hurry I get in the right spot! I just punch out the heart!

Laura Conwell Reynolds of Sweet Sassafras shared these sweet tags.

I did mine through Vistaprint. 2 sided business cards. Some full size and some I cut in half to make two smaller tags.

Liza Ferrer from The Hidden Penny shared her sweet tags and matching sign.

I get my tags/business cards from Vista Print. Very affordable and I customize so they come pre-printed with vendor number on the back. I include short product description and sales price use raffia to tie tags on merchandise. I even had a sign made to match the cards which is displayed in the booth. Easy and affordable with very little effort. You can't go wrong with Vista Print.

Debra Nesbit has her daughter design her tags and then she has them printed at Vistaprint. She added a personal touch to her tags by including a pic of an adorable poodle.

HANDMADE AT HOME

Of course, if you don't to be all fancy schmancy you can always create sometime handmade. The possibilities are endless. Just stroll through the paper aisles at Hobby Lobby or Michael's crafts and you will just be overwhelmed with all the materials and supplies available.

Nolan Reynolds shared her handmade tags.

Ivory cards took, printed on B&W laser printer, cut by hand with a small paper cutter. Logo is simple with two distinct fonts and a clip art flower. Labels are address labels and printed also. Our store pulls vendor tags at time of sale and returns them to us monthly with our checks, so it doesn't make sense for us to order them like business cards. We leave cards out for customers in our booth, though. The larger folded tags are for vintage action figures and small items that go into small zip lock style baggies and hang on pegboard.

Here are some cute tags I found while perusing the web.

Chelle & Co

Northern Vintage Decor

Love the coffee stained tags by: Todo Papel via Etsy

Heart Tags by: Saddle Hill Studios

These are some tags I used a while back. I just whipped these up on the computer using some cute graphics I found. All you have to do is print off the page, cut, hole punch and thread. These are super cute if you print them on brown kraft paper.

Over the last few years we have shared printable tags here on the blog. Here are some back links to those tags for anyone that would like to use them.

Tags 1
Tags 2
Tags 3

Other suggestions from our readers:

Barbara Condon Nesmith: I just buy the index cards that come in colors-i cut them in 3 so i end up with 300 tags-costs 1.06 for all of them-then punch hole and use curling ribbon for the strings-i usually find the ribbon cheap at Goodwill every now and then-i make them when i am watching TV-i know it takes more time to make them but it is cheaper then buying them already done.

Jennifer Steele Williams: I used pages from a vintage children's book. (One that was damaged) I have also used playing cards,Monopoly money, and cards from board games.

Thanks to everyone that posted pics of their tags. We really appreciate it. We hope you enjoyed this blog post.

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