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Friends of the Brockville Public Library presented their first merrybook<\/span>mas<\/span><\/strong> at the 1000 Islands Mall, 2399 Parkedale Avenue, Brockville – 14th December, 2013.<\/h2>\n

I always take a photograph of my table once I get it set up but as luck would have it, my phone didn’t have enough oomph left to take a photo. Tried hubby’s, his automatically shut down the battery was so low. However, all was not lost. I took my iPad with me (fully charged) which does have a camera in it.<\/p>\n

This was the first event where I had to provide my own table. OH picked up a folding 4′ long one back in early to mid November so that I’d have it. It worked beautifully! Doesn’t my set up look great?<\/p>\n

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\"merrybookmas<\/a>Also, the handcart he picked up was a dream to load everything on to wheel my table and boxes of books and other accoutrements in and out of the mall. We didn’t have to provide chairs, but we took our own anyway and I’m glad we did.<\/p>\n

This was a first for, not just the Friends of the Brockville Public Library, but for me, too. This was the first time at any event that The Consequences Collection<\/span><\/strong> out sold A Shadow in the Past<\/strong><\/span>. I even had one couple who couldn’t decide which book to buy so they bought one of each – his and hers.<\/p>\n

We didn’t stay stuck out here in the middle of the mall all day. We moved over in front of one of the closed storefronts so people could only walk by in front of us. I had visions of the table getting jostled and my display toppled or people trying to walk behind us to look at the store’s sale display would be bumping us all day. I don’t know if that was a good thing or not, but I felt more comfortable knowing people couldn’t walk behind me.<\/p>\n

The final sales tally … 7<\/strong> copies of The Consequences Collection<\/strong><\/span> and 3<\/strong> copies of A Shadow in the Past<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n

I think it was a very successful day, don’t you?<\/p>\n

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Friends of the Brockville Public Library presented their first merrybookmas at the 1000 Islands Mall, 2399 Parkedale Avenue, Brockville – 14th December, 2013. I always take a photograph of my table once I get it set up but as luck would have it, my phone didn’t have enough oomph left to take a photo. 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