Rod Stewart gave a concert on Monday night at the Furniture Show in Vegas. It was in the outside patio area at the center of the three buildings at the World Market where the show is held

There was a huge banner of Rod, looking very good and not a day over 45, hanging from building B over looking the area. Every morning as we got off the bus Rod would be towering over us, looking down and giving us a sexy smile. Yes, that was nice, but that wasn't the best thing that was happening this week at the Furniture Show in Vegas.

For those of you who have attended large trade shows before you know that it's a lot of walking, looking, and talking.  It's darn exhausting and exhilarating all at the same time.

There is nothing better than walking into a showroom and finding numerous items that are perfect for your inventory. Better yet when they are at a reasonable price and have a low minimum order.  Ooh, Ooh, comes out of your mouth and you do just a little bit of the happy dance.

BUT that still is not the most exciting thing that happened this week for Terrylynn Fisher and me at the Las Vegas Furniture show. Ok, I will get to the point.

This week, for the first time, while attending a trade show as a professional stager, we walked into a showroom, handed over our badge card, and the ladies behind the counter would say, "oh, you are a stager! That's great! That business is really booming isn't it? Right this way. Let me get you a rep to show you around."

Now don't get me wrong, in the past the reps were not exactly rude, but this is the first time that we were treated like royalty and EVERYONE not only knew about our profession, but that it was a viable business!

It was very exciting. Of course, with all that attention, we spent a little more money than we had planned. In the old days the reps would pretty much ignore us and we could wander around the showroom by ourselves until we were ready to order. Now they want to assist us the entire time.

We found lots of great things to put on www.StagersLIST.com's shopping mall and can't wait to get them up and loaded.

We are currently at the airport waiting for our plane.  We are tired and are looking forward to going home. Staged to Sell has a staging tomorrow, Friday and Monday and I haven't designed a thing! Wish I had all the new items we found. Doing the happy dance just thinking about it!