Sarah Axelrod

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If you didn’t see, a couple of blogs ago I explained that I had won a trip to the New York Toy Fair with KidsEmbrace and Franco Dreams. We finished our food after Vincent and I took turns spilling everything we touched on the table, and we decided to head back to the hotel so we could all rest for the start of the toy fair the next morning. The few days we were at the toy fair kind of blurred together in a cycle of meeting Nikki downstairs for breakfast, going back upstairs to get ready for the day, walking or taking a cab to the Javits Center where the fair was being held, networking, meeting new people, and having amazing team dinners afterwards at restaurants like Mastro’s and Arno’s. The day before I flew back home, Franco Manufacturing (or Franco Dreams as most of you know them as) set up an influencer party for us and a few NYC influencers that included an amazing tour of their showroom, as well as breakfast!

We are both busy on the actual day, but thankfully Board and Brush Modesto has workshops all week no matter what day it is! We are all SO excited for her and look for any excuse to celebrate her, which led me to partnering with Board and Brush Modesto to give a few reasons why they’re the best place to celebrate the lovely woman (or women!) But that absolutely doesn’t mean it wasn’t rewarding, exciting, and so much fun every step of the way! Board and Brush has multiple classes each week and they change all the time, so definitely check out their website to find out what’s going on near you!

The winning prize was a weeklong trip to New York City to attend the NY Toy Fair as a paid social media consult for KidsEmbrace and Franco Dreams. I’m sure that I won’t have the time to actually catch a show (I wish, but tickets are like $$$$), but seeing the outside of the theater is good enough for me. Now, the entire reason I’m even going on this trip is to be a paid social media consult for KidsEmbrace and Franco Dreams at the NY Toy Fair. If you’ve seen my @HoJoAnaheim takeovers at Disneyland, it’s going to be similar to that, but I’ll be showing you all around the toy fair and checking out all of the super cool exhibits that each toy brand have built (and getting PAID to do it!