China Qiao @ Mercado Mundo Mix @ Lx Factory

Para todos de Lisboa e de Sul:

Vou a Lisboa este fim de semana! Vou participar o Mercado Mundo Mix a Lx Factory, nos dias 4, 5, 6 Dezembro, só estes três dias em Lisboa. Ate já!

Local: Mercado Mundo Mix @ LX FACTORY, Alcântara, Lisboa (ENTRADA LIVRE)
Dias: 4, 5, 6 Dezembro, 2009
Horas: 12h~22h

BAGS COMING BACK!

Bags are coming back!!! During FIA, many old clients were asking about the bags, pity that I didn´t have any new collections at that time. Now here they are! I´m going with the new bags to FARO this weekend, para feira do......

~~~~~~Mercado Mundo Mix @ Algarve´09~~~~~~

Dias: 14, 15, 16 Augusto
Horas: 18h00~~01hoo
Local: Largo da Sé @ Faro

FIA - Segunda Vez

Segunda vez na FIA. I'm very happy that lots of old clients from last year still remember me! It's exciting that more and more people get to know about China Qiao! 非常感激! (Muito obrigada!)

FIA 2009

China Qiao is going to participate FIA for the 2nd time. Pavilhão 2, stand nº 2E36. Até 27 Junho!


~~~Horário~~~
27 Junho a 5 Julho 2009
Exposição: 15h00 / 24h00 (excepto 5/Jul - 15h00 / 22h00)
Tasquinhas: 12h30 / 24h00

~~~Local~~~
FIL - Parque das Nações

Mundo Mix Castelo de S. Jorge

Qiaoqiao is BACK!

This Friday, Saturday and Sunday, China Qiao will present the newest collections at Mundo Mix Castelo de S. Jorge. ~~~~~STAND NUMBER: 98~~~~~

fairs replay

I just transfered some photos from my phone to computer. They are photos of the two fairs which I went for in last December. I become really a 'fair' person now, hehehe.

NATALIS, at FIL, Lisboa, 06~14/Dec/2008

L'ARTIGIANO IN FIERA, at Rho, Milan, 26/Nov ~ 08/Dec/2008

Post-fair Syndrome

Natalis ended a week ago. No more fairs for me this year. I'm completely exhausted, both physically and mentally.

I've been very very lazy this week, just wanna sleep and do nothing. I'm sad, because the fair at Milan didn't go well at all. Natalis was okay, but not enough. These two fairs disappoint me, now I'm depressed, I think I've got the post-fair Syndrome.

Business is not easy. NOTHING is easy......

Natalis

China Qiao at Natalis, starting TODAY!

Winter clothes collection, Chinese handmade dolls, and Miao ethnic bijus.

P.S. I'm still in Milan at the moment, now Alex is taking care of the stand at Natalis. Poor guy...LOL! I'll be back next Wednesday!

First day of L'ARTIGIANO

Today a lot of people took my name card, but they cannot find any information about the decoration stuffs in the blog.

Here is my explanation. This time I brought new stuffs to Milan besides clothes, which are home decorations with oriental style. These decorations are very nice, every piece is art. But they occupy all the space in my stand, so I cannot find a tiny space to show my clothes anymore.

Here I just give a brief introduction of these decorations. All these pieces are from a young designer in China. Most of them are made of stone powders from mountains in a south region of China, named GuangXi. They are all handmade, very delicate. The style is what I appreciate, very orient, but interpreted in a new way. Below are some pics of these decorations, have a look.

People are asking if I have a shop in Milan. The answer is 'No'. Also there are no other shops selling these decorations in Italy. At the moment I'm not ready yet to sell online, due to the transportation difficulty.

See you this weekend!

So, I have been preparing for Mundo Mix these days, but I feel sort of guilty because I didn't update my blog much :-(

Sorry that I haven't got much time to put all my new collections here, but if you come to visit Mundo Mix Estoril this weekend, I promise you will not be disappointed.

Okay, I'm going back to work now, see you soon at Estoril!

Mundo Mix Estoril

A minha próxima feira~~~~~~

Vou voltar depois de 24 Augosto

The blog will be hibernating for 2 weeks time (though it's summer time now, hahaha). Because I am at Peniche for the fair now :-)

I will come back after 24 Augosto!

Beijinhos

PENICHE artesanato 2008

Olá!

I'm going to Peniche for the Feira Artesanato tomorrow! Sorry that I didn't inform everyone in advance. It's a SURPRISE, hahaha! The fair will start this Friday, and last till 24th this month. This is going to be my 2nd fair, hope it's going to be lots of fun, hehehe. So if you have time, just pass by Peniche, to enjoy the praia, peixe grelhada, and the fair :-)

6th Feira Internacional de Artesanato de Peniche
Length: 8 - 24 August, 2008
Location: Peniche Fireman Pavillion
Entry: Free
Time: Week days 14:00 - 24:00
Weekend days 11:00 - 24:00

See you there!

P.S. I would like to practise to write more in Portuguese from now on. But it's already too late today, it will take me at least 2 hrs more to write this post in Portuguese (excuse, hahaha), so I chose English, ajajaja. Anyway, boa noite e beijinhos para todos ^0^

FIA ACABOU!

Finally, FIA finished. Alex and I didn't manage to drag everything back home untill this noon. Cansada, cansada, e cansada. So, I accomplished my first fair. It's an interesting experience! I enjoyed a lot the international environment there, though sometimes quite chaotic; I spent very relaxing 9 days with my lovely neighbours, the Indonesian mum and son, the Indian brothers ect. ; and of course all the time I liked to introduce about my stand to the visitors. I am very very happy that a lot of people showed great interest in the clothes and bags. Nothing else can encourage me more than this. It's just like a feeling of being appreciated, which makes me extremely content. This encouragement solidify my thought of running a store here in Lisboa. I hope soon, this wish will come true!

:-)

It's almost 2 am now. I just arrived home from FIA a moment ago. Too tired to write much at the moment, I just wanna thank everyone who enjoyed visiting my stand.

Thanks Paula for giving the first comment on my blog :-) Don't worry, I remember your blouse with the pink flower. I'll contact you as soon as I have an answer from China. To Ana and Rita, also I didn't forget the bag and dress you want, I'll let you know if there is as well.

I'll enrich the blog after the fair, hopefully there will be more interesting things coming up!

Beijinhos para todos

Who lost a PINK BLOUSE?

Yesterday, a lady forgot her PINK BLOUSE at my stand. I keep it in my stand and wait for your coming back :-)

PS: Actually the color is between pink and purple.

Stand OPEN

FIA started! My stand welcomed guests of the first day, exciting! The fair started at 3 pm yesterday, at that time Alex and I were still trying to organize everything to fit into the stand. There are sooooo many stuffs, we just have no idea where to show them all in my tiny stand. People started to walk in, but I didn't feel ready yet. Maybe it will never be ready, coz I always think that I could have done better.

It was an exciting day, though very disorganized, kakakaka. People were quited interested in my stuffs, and I am very happy! You know, it's just like giving a performance on the stage, and the audiences really appreciate it :-) But, most of the goods were not labeled with price at the beginning, so it turned out to be a real chaos, jajajaja. Sometimes people were asking for the prices at the same time, then I had to check the long list to find them, just like find needles in a big haystack......

Dear Catarina, THANK YOU SO MUCH! If you were not there helping, I have no idea how chaotic the stand could become. My dear Alex, I was not able to handle all these without your support, love u......

Thanks to everyone who apprecited this tiny but colorful exhibition yesterday. Sorry that I couldn't manage to upload the albums of clothes and bags in the blog before the fair. I will work on that after the fair.

For everyone who is coming today and later on, you are most WELCOME! My stand name is: China Qiao; Number: 2F47

FIA

Besides the girl's nature, there is another reason that I'm starting the blog with the fashion topic. Probably some of you have known that already. I am going to participate in FIA (Feira Internacional do Artesanato), which will be held at FIL in Lisbon from 5 to 13 July. Very soon, starting from this Saturday!

This fair means a lot to me, because it will be the FIRST fair in my entire life! I'm very happy to announce that I will exhibit the original-design clothes and bags from China! So you will not only see them in pictures here, but you are even able to feel the real stuffs at FIA.

It's not easy at all to make it happen, really NOT easy. Last summer, I heard about FIA for the very first time, then I decided to have a visit, since I sort of like handicrafts. I didn't realise that it is such a multi-cultural event until I reached the international section. I was very impressed by the international environment, from then on, I started to think that maybe I could show some nice stuffs from China to the people here.

Finally one day in April this year, I made up my mind and stepped into FIL office and signed for a stand of FIA. But it was just the start. In late April, I flew back to China, and started my first business trip. After lots of meetings and discussions with the companies that I contacted, I decided the goods which would be sent back to Lisbon. Then I had to figure out the custom issues, which turned out to be very headaching. My academic background is not related with either business or marketing, so I had to learn everything from the very beginning, just like a pupil.

While in China, I experienced the most scary moment in my lifetime till now, the terrible earthquake. My family is in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan, which is not far from the quake center. Thank goodness, they were all safe and we just had some cracks in the house. In late May, I had to fly back to Lisbon to continue the preparation for the fair, but with a lot of worries of my family in Chengdu.

Right after back in Lisbon, I started the long-distant contacts with the companies, transportation brokers. China is 7 hours ahead, so sometimes I had to stay up all night to phone the people there. Alex (my husband) was joking that I am in Lisbon but living in Chinese time zone, lol! At the same time, I am constantly calling home in Chengdu, and everyone in the family is fine, so I'm more released and can concentrate more on work.

Alex is helping me a lot here in Lisbon, because my Portuguese is......really really POOR :-( We were told by the custom broker that I didn't have much time left to get the goods arrive on time, then I became very very stressed, no one wants to have the stand empty by the day the fair starts! In the end I chose to send by air, though more expensive, i feel safe. The goods arrived on time, Alex and I went to the airport excitedly, squeezed all the packages in to our small car, and finally drove them back home safely.

Now, FIA is starting in 4 days! I don't believe it! I was a first-time visitor last year, and this year I'm going to present my own stand! I just want to make one wish: A successful exhibition!