Hot,Hot, HOT! We set up both my booth and my friend's from 12-4. We have a nice area next to the pond so we can see the ducks and hear water. While there are some nice trees nearby we aren't under any of them. It was very nicely organized, each booth was marked out by stakes and paint on the grass and motorized mules were working hard to help everyone get their stuff out there to set up. I was shockedshockedshocked at how many vendors will be at this event, @150! I was also amazed at how many big trailers full of stuff like woodworking items pulled up like caravans. Some of these people have this down to a science, traveling the show circuit all over the country.
And then there's my booth. A borrowed old metal pipe frame, covered in silver tarp with a plastic pipe propped up inside to keep the tarp from drooping in the middle. Draped with lovely clotheline rope to supply me with additional areas to hang my pillows and smaller quilts with the wooden clothespins I bought, it looks like something that belongs in a remote Appalachian village. All I need is a small pot belly stove under the plastic pipe and it's Home Sweet Home.
I have put the sun screen in a strategic location so as not to forget it as I did today, and I'll be getting things in one big pile tonight so all I have to do tomorrow at 8am is load it in the truck along with the cooler full of frozen water bottles and go. Did I mention it was HOTHOTHOT!?!
If anyone on the group lives nearby, please stop in and say hi. I'm two booths down from the wild tie-dyed booth with big tie-dyed flags on it. I'll be the one sweating.