I went to a craft fair
Today I went to the Art Star Craft Bazaar. Let me tell you, it was flippin' amazing!
This is the first craft show I've ever gone to. It's this whole huge world that is so brilliant and beautiful. Stall after stall of creative and talented people that are happy and excited to share what they're doing and will sit and chat about it. (It was SO different from an academic conference: the whole jaded expression thing didn't really jive here.) I was excited and overwhelmed. I saw some stuff/people that I had seen on the internet. I visited the Etsy booth and got a free bandana! It was all just such a wow experience! And it's a good thing I didn't have any cash with me.
Some highlights:
* people being friendly to Ellis. This is kind of a dread experience as a parent of a toddler: a whole day of no-touch. But people were totally pumped about E and didn't mind a nice touch.
* seeing these fun Tshirts and onesies in person.
An aside: I had this weird conversation with this one lady. She had these sweet appliqueed onesies for sale, and the onesies were in all these cool colors. Having overheard a few other conversations about places to obtaining blank clothing items upon which to venture creative expertise, I offered the following question: "where did find such cool onesies?" Her reply, "I made them." And I'm like--duh! this is a craft bazaar. So I clarified: "where did find such cool colors?" So at the end of the day, which of us should be the one feeling dumb? (probably neither--but it just seemed really weird). Okay, aside over.
* compliments on my new skirt (because, duh, I'm going to wear something I made!) and subsequent sharing love over the new skirt book!
* visiting the Etsy booth! It all felt so rock-star-ish.
It was so cool to see all this great talent in real life. Stuff I've only ever seen on the internet. I felt like I got a great initial view into the whole indie craft thing. If I weren't so durn tired at the moment, I'd be in there sewing like madster with all this inspiration. But I think I've done enough sewing this week to be satisfied. Lots of projects coming up though.
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I am so jealous! It sounds like so much fun. I wish something like that would come through here.
Posted by: mrscrumley | 03.06.07 15:55
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This craft fair sounds like such fun. And, btw, I think your question about the colorful onesies was quite reasonable. One doesn't usually see such fabulous colors -- only drab blues and whites and not-so-exciting patterns. Speaking of patterns, I think you and I must be on similar wavelengths these days. I posted the same YouTube video of the female portraits w/o seeing it on your site first. And I just yesterday put the skirt book you mention on my wishlist! Having now seen how cute your skirt looks, I may just have to order it right away. (I'm not nearly as skilled as you are with such projects, but I'd love to learn.) Anyway, just wanted to send greetings.... and to reaffirm the goal for us to meet up in the Philly area one of these days. We _may_ be down again in August, in which case I'll definitely get in touch. It would be so fun to have the boys meet up, too.
Posted by: yellocello | 04.06.07 10:36
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I went to the same bazaar! Except I went on Sunday, opting for cold drizzle instead of blazing heat. I was seriously drooling over those Squidfire shirts with the squid and octopus designs. I ended up with a hank of blue and green hand-painted yarn which, I think, is destined to become a hat in the future.
Too bad I didn't know you were going -- I'd have given you a call!
Posted by: Amanda | 04.06.07 11:36
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Hey! I was a vendor there! It was my first craft show, and I think I ended up buying more stuff than I sold. I had to keep away from Squidfire to protect my wallet. But I DID walk away with 5 pocket mirrors from My Favorite Mirror. Glad you had a good time!
Posted by: Melissa Morris | 05.06.07 09:07