Fellow Seattle-based blogger, AG, and I took a trip down to Portland, Oregon last weekend for Crafty Wonderland, a large, semi-annual fair for artisans of the Pacific Northwest to showcase their goods.
It was huge. There were over 200 vendors filling the exhibition hall with a large variety of product types. We recognized some of them from Seattle craft shows but a vast majority were brand new.
The definite highlight was the Shiro booth! I could lie and say that this wasn't the inspiration for our trip in the first place but...yeah.
Both Caitlin (in front, posing) and Lauren (in back, selling) were lovely and very patient as we fangirl-ed over all of their things. Including the two new contour powders that we featured earlier this week.
AG adds: Agreed, it was great meeting Caitlin and Lauren! Between tackling their enormous Black Friday queue and prepping for Crafty Wonderland, they were both running on very little sleep, but were just as awesome and cheerful as I expected.
AG adds: Agreed, it was great meeting Caitlin and Lauren! Between tackling their enormous Black Friday queue and prepping for Crafty Wonderland, they were both running on very little sleep, but were just as awesome and cheerful as I expected.
They also had a few special edition, layered lipglosses. (Lauren said "never again" as they were a huge pain to make.) The gloss on the far left is Figgy Pudding which we also covered in the contour powder post earlier this week.
AG adds: I believe they also had some special edition pressed palettes at the show, one of which included a less sparkly version of November CotM Turkey Coma (original version reviewed here) and a nameless matte highlight which I believe was created specifically for the palette. I don't know if the Shiro team always brings special edition products to fairs, but it's definitely good incentive to watch for their next booth appearance!
AG adds: I believe they also had some special edition pressed palettes at the show, one of which included a less sparkly version of November CotM Turkey Coma (original version reviewed here) and a nameless matte highlight which I believe was created specifically for the palette. I don't know if the Shiro team always brings special edition products to fairs, but it's definitely good incentive to watch for their next booth appearance!
It was a pretty awesome trip and we had some excellent food in Portland.
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