Crafty Display Ideas

I've been thinking a lot about neat display ideas to spiff up my craft booth stylin' this holiday season... and I saw that Naomi at Splurge had put a bunch of my packaged mobiles in a large glass vase (see below)
and then I was at Stumptown indulging in some liquid coffee yumminess and I noticed they had put the coffee cup to-go lids in these big glass jars (see picture below) and little labels on brown craft paper were taped to the jars (these could be price tags right?!). I really like how this looks and even more, I like how it functions as a retail display. The price is clear but small, the container is glass and it holds a lot of product... and its a crafty use of something that is meant for something different!
So I have been prowling local GoodWill for big glass jars/containers (no luck so far)... I went to the craft store and stood in front of their large glass vase assortment for a while. There were a lot to choose from and I always get 40%off coupons in my email for these crafty stores, so this could be an option. I had thought I'd like the big tall cylinders, but honestly they are either too small or so tall that if I filled them up with packaged mobiles or little DIY kits, once some of the kits had sold it would be hard for customers to reach the rest at the bottom of the cylinders. This would not do! As these are supposed to entice retail purchases, not prevent them. So among the various jars/vases at the craft store I found myself captivated by the huge size round fish bowl type vase. I like em'.

New Display Concept

I've been working on a new display idea... I painted some simple embroidery hoops (inexpensive round wooden frames) with glossy red acrylic paint and hung them on metal hooks, the idea being that I can suspend a mobile inside the red circle and make a cluster of these circles...

I figure I'll make one circle that has a sign and this will make the cluster a retail display. For now it just looks like a neat installation.

New Display Tables

New display tables in the making... Tim is helping me with this wood project (his forte)... I found these round table tops at Portland Store Fixtures - there were 3 and I bought them all! How perfect, they already had metal fixtures on the bottoms to attach them to a base - wha?! I know, they only cost me a few bucks a piece and I love sets of 3... I am thinking of having them each be a different height and making a cluster of them, the three round tables. The display furniture I use currently is too big to fit in the car. I need to drive to out of town shows, and I need the displays to compact small enough that the car can mainly be used to transport my work. Display surfaces are key. I can hang mobiles in the space to keep things funky, but I still need tables for displaying packaged work and business cards and whatnot. I think these tables will be brilliant!

Here the first proto-type table (they are small like pedestals) is displaying my wonderful matryoshka dolls. These little white dolls are actually plastic measuring cups for the kitchen! My friend found these for my birthday - thanks Naomi! I love them and I've used them to measure stuff already.