DottyD - well...we are back from the hospital. Steph's liver enzymes came down but she did have some sort of infection. There was no vomiting so they didnt deem it an emergency and apparently since she has a scheduled consulting appt with the chief surgeon Tuesday they figured it was better for her to wait until then & the doc who saw her today said he would indicate to him asap would be good.
bignan- Welcome aboard!!
mim - to advertise on quiltshow.com - the person submitting the ad must be a member so if you are not you should find a member who is. Next at the site go to features and scroll down to events. You can check this out without being a member. The next step is to "add event" at the top right under the site toolbar. It will basically indicate what to do there. It will not post immediately until they check it out to make sure it is legit - next day. I think they check to make sure posting person is a member and that the organization had contact information. Another place you can advertise is AQS - American Quilter's Society - again you must be a member to post the event. Westways magazine offers reasonable advertising as does quilter's newsletter [I think one of these may have been free?? we had a publicity chair take care of it months ago and I dont remember - but I was the one who set up the two website ads]
The one most successful advertising we had was a human interest story. If you have some type of "catch" whether it be some amazing unique talent or charitable event/group your guild supports or is doing something with the publicity in local paper will be hard to beat. Advertising in the papers is expensive. Most local small papers do give you a free spot in their calendar section - but this will not be as good as a story. One of our members - my co-chair had a great idea of making a "yurt" out of quilts - she and her husband built the gazebo type structure and many members made quilts that were displayed on it. The local paper did a full page spread on it on Saturday and many of our Sunday guests claimed that was the reason they came