Saturday, September 15, 2012



Hello friends!
                I would like to share my experience on the recently held exhibition.
                Firstly, I'd like to thank Shubhada, who provided us with a platform to exhibit our art.
               We started preparing a month prior to the exhibition. Initially, we had a meeting at Swadi's residence to discuss the requirements for the concept of "Eco Freindly Ganapati" and the materials to be used. Shubhada had sent a detail mail about it. We then shared amongst us about what could be exhibited considering the limited time in hand and our daily duties. We then allotted ourselves with respective works of arts which could be done singularly at our own homes as it was simply not possible to come together and do things collectively. We then within a month prepared our art works to the best of our ability with quality as we were going to sell the art works. 
               On the day of the exhibition, we were given vacant stalls with tables and enough lighting. We are thankful to Mumbai Grahak Panchayat as they gave these stalls to all of us, free of cost, at Brahman Seva Mandal, Dadar, a prime area in Mumbai, where the rates are tremendously high. It was an experience in itself to organise and decorate the stall with the modest help of our able and adorable husbands. The displays, arrangements and allocation of space was an exercise in space management. 
               This being our first attempt, initially, we encountered many problems. Slowly, we got accustomed to the responses and needs of the clients. We started to highlight our goods explaining to them the usefulness of the products. Kiran Swadi's prior experience (the other one would have been a disaster) helped us tremendously. The next day was a hit. Our inexperience, immaturity was rewarded when we were successful to engage a very handsome and smart salesman. He was instrumental in keeping the fairer sex engrossed and the pace of our sales definitely increased. Mahesh, once again proved his multi talented, but humble self. However, we definitely missed the other one " Anand" and to some extent the "Doctor" who was unavailable when we needed them the most, who shall now readily bear the loss incurred to our firm.
               Darshana and Dhanashree helped us tremendously in running the stall and with the sales. When Omkar,Om, Shubham, Rahul & Harsha, Aastha, Vaishnavi, Krutika turned up at the exhibition, the atmosphere became cheerful and we were pleased with their presence.Our shibir parents really encouraged and pampered us by bringing an never ending stock of snacks.Vivek's mother and Swati arranged our lunch & dinner. We received a lot of good wishes and encouragement from everyone and were thus able to fulfil our dream successfully. 
Thank You, everyone for your love & support.
Swati.

4 comments:

  1. Looks like we really missed something!Still looking forward for your account of how your respective, able and adorable spouses and equally adorable children contributed for the event.

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  2. Thanx for sharing this experience

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  3. स्वातीमॅडम
    `shall now readily bear the loss incurred to our firm.’ याचा अर्थ कळला नाही. जरा सांगाल. तसेच Dream fulfilled ला थांबू नका. पुढचे exhibition कधी हे सांगा. वारंवारता हवी.

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  4. Thank you for sharing your experience with us. Please let me know when will be your next stall.I would ike to help you in making things and also sharing my ideas with you all.
    Archana Naik

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