On Wednesday evening I am hopping on the red-eye to High Point, North Carolina, where I will be spending two days experiencing the best that High Point Market has to offer with the with the High Point Market Design Bloggers Tour. I will actually be there for a total of 6 days, because anyone who has ever been to High Point Market knows that no matter how long you spend at market, there is NEVER enough time, so two days will be spent exclusively with the High Point Market Design Bloggers Tour and the remaining 4 days will be spent experiencing the rest that High Point Market has to offer. There are 11.5 million square feet of show space to cover, so you can only imagine how there is never enough time. I’ll be shopping for the retail store and current projects I am working on. Also, I will also absorb everything I see at market and will present the trends I see to other designers who aren’t able to make it to market, but who come to the store to shop and rely on me as their eyes and ears at market.

This market I will be one of 10 top design bloggers that were chosen to attend on behalf of the High Point Market Design Bloggers Tour. During market we will be reporting on what is trending, what inspires us, and will give our followers an insider’s view of what is going on in the industry – all on our social channels. Along the way we’ll also provide snapshots from the many networking events and parties that we will be attending, and there will be a lot! After market, we will give more detailed recaps on our respective blogs.

On that note, please allow yourselves to get better acquainted with each of this fall’s High Point Market Design Bloggers:

Courtney Allison, www.frenchcountrycottage.net
Cathy Austin, www.catherinemaustin.com/bespokebanter
Arianne Bellizaire, www.inspiredtostyle.com
Vicki G. Bolick, www.theaceofspaceblog.com
Janet Coon, www.shabbyfufublog.com
Mariella Cruzado, www.splendorstyling.com
Carrie Leskowitz, www.carriesdesignmusings.blogspot.com
Holly Hollingsworth Phillips, www.theenglishroom.biz
Shannon Smith, www.burlapandlaceblog.com

This tour would not be possible without our wonderful sponsors, several of which I know well and already specify for projects or whose product I carry in my store. Those that I am not as familiar with, I look forward to learning more, as there is nothing better than building a nice arsenal of information. Here are some snapshots of the Tour sponsors, whose showrooms I have photographed at past markets: