Category: craft fairs
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Elastic Time
I know that time is elastic…all the time that is lacking in the weeks leading up to a show snap back during the show…. This morning was painfully slow. Depressingly slow. The crowds did not materialize, no doubt due to the crisp but sunny day. Who wants to be cooped up inside on what might…
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Trimmed and Tidy
red scarf ready for tagging; blue scarf to be trimmed and then tagged Doug has been manning the booth to let me come home and work on fringe twisting some of the last rayon chenille scarves that needed to be finished. It’s a good idea to fringe twist rayon chenille because if you don’t the…
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Studio Fair Opens!
A very quick peek via my cell phone camera at the booth just before the doors opened. I always ask for a corner booth at this show as I feel it gives people a much better look at my stuff but bigger shows are so expensive I only get an aisle booth there. I much…
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Studio Fair Opens!
A very quick peek via my cell phone camera at the booth just before the doors opened. I always ask for a corner booth at this show as I feel it gives people a much better look at my stuff but bigger shows are so expensive I only get an aisle booth there. I much…
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Ready or Not
I intended to take a quick photo of the booth with my cell phone before leaving the hall today, but I forgot. I’ve got a really good booth placement – it’s practically the first booth one sees as you enter the room. Well, it can be good – it can be ‘bad’ depending on how…
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Taking Care of the Details
Yesterday was all about me – maintaining me in several ways. Today I have been buzzing around trying to tie up loose ends. With a very busy 3 weeks (or more) still to get through it would be easy to let little things fall through the cracks. My goal of having a representative selection of…
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Sunny on the Hill
Set up went fairly smoothly. This is a small show so we didn’t put all our inventory out. Actually even at bigger shows we always hold stuff back to fill in holes as they (hopefully!) develop. I left Doug there, came home and wove another sample for the designer – something less polished, less ‘perfect’…
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Plodding
It took Doug all day yesterday to carefully fold and pack all the inventory we had in the store room. Although we don’t need it all for the first show, which is really quite a small show comparatively speaking, once we load up the van it won’t be unloaded again except for when we are actually doing…
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Contents Under Pressure
Since coming home from down south I have been…grumpy…which is probably the polite word for how I’ve been. While cutting samples for AGY: Rayon apart this morning I realized that there had just been way too much pressure of one sort or another and I needed to dial back on that or else my health…
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Heaps
After driving to Quesnel and back (90 minutes each way) today I felt like doing exactly…..nothing. And that was pretty much what I did for the rest of the afternoon. I did make a large pot of soup from the leftovers in the fridge which will feed us for the next few days because I…