My age, my booth number, and other answers
my booth number this year was 42.
its a good number, being the answer to life the universe and everything.... plus my age.... but yes, i was in a new location.
i LIKE the location. it was Falcon Mew's old spot, up on Broadway, behind the barn. near Your Inner Vagabond........ i hope to stay there.. its shady and dryer than some spots, with many good neighbors.
the down side is that people were aparently still looking for me on Friday.. despite the directory, and ads in the Pennsic Independant.
also..... all brunettes apparently look alike. Sparrowhawk Studio had my old space, and people thought she was ME (boggle!)
because of the heat exhaustion problems (see prior posts) i took it VERY easy on set up. i even hired "the boys" from Nightshade Leather (aka Michael from Rennaisance Productions and company) to set up my sleeping tent in Bhakail. its on the Serengeti and too hot during daylight. they refused cash so i paid them in beer.
sadly we had a missing tent part, AND a mistake in the guy lines (a very easy one to make, i may add) which meant that when it rained first week.... my tent leaked... a lot. after we fixed both the missing part, and the mistake in guy lines, it stopped.. but it took many "can you buy me towels at Walmart?" requests to get the tent dried out. (a special shout out to Navarr for loaning me shop towels)
so.... first week i got up and running later than usual.. and business was slow (rain does that) but at least it was cool..... second week business picked up but it started getting hotter.....
oddly, it also got the mold count up.. i guess all the spores from when it rained?
anyway, i was FINE staying in my space in the shade.... but anytime i ventured out to the bank or post office during daylight (when they were open) well... it wasnt pretty.
as to how bored was i first week?
i have a small basket handbag and a small "spinning demo" tool basket (both with wood lids) from the Basket man. i wood burned my badge into my hand bag, and asked Dragonscale Jewelers to draw me a sheep for my spinning demo bag (yes we both commented on the "the little prince" reference there).. which i wood burned in. This worked out SO well that i bought another box from Tancred , took it to Thomas the Lapidary to get it drilled and turned into a "lazy Kate" or "spinning jenny" ..... a plying tool.. it holds spools for plying... i usually make one from a shoebox if i didnt bring mine....he even put cotter pins in the metal rods for me! then i had Dragonscale lady put sheep on that too..... she said since it held three spools, she put three sheep on it. so when i wood burrned THAT in i made a white faced, a black faced, and a Jacob sheep out of them.
beware the bored merchant
i got complements on my painted up Ashford Traveler spinning wheel.. and sold two Babe's Fiber Garden spinning wheels
"Pennsic Resistant" is a good way to describe that i think.....
kyleri was there with her Om Shanti Handcrafts stuff.... (love the soaps.... but many of them smell like food to me) and the service cat. i KNOW the cat was popular. dmn but that cat is mellow! there were service DOGS freaking out at Pennsic and the kitty was all sorts of "its cool......" but i suspect he was about as "done with it, thanks" as we were after Midnight Madness.
various things failed to show up at war, either because i forgot them at home, or the person who was supposed to deliver them never did......
but all in all i managed.
now there was rumors of a rain storm (reliable sounding ones i might add) so a LOT of the merchants were packing up Friday night.. or at least packing what they could. i asked for help and got my sleeping tent packed up Friday day..... the idea being that if i couldnt get OUT Friday night i would sleep in my merchant tent.
(saw Cindy Cooper and her second... they were all "what are you doing on this side of things???" as they looked at me and my van being there at 6 mumble friday night (grin) because my sleeping tent is JUST outside the edge of the Serengeti side merchants.. )
with some hired help i got out Friday at almost ten pm.
it was a bad packing job, mostly because the helpers didnt know my stock, and had no clue what to do when i was on the run to the locker... they tried though! so i got everything packed and off site ......
i slept in a hotel on the way home... well. ok i had insomnia in a hotel on the way home. watched "Secondhand Lions" (cool movie) and tossed and turned..
A/C and no drums.. and etc meant i couldnt sleep i guess....
got home Saturday. i am told that after the whole rush to get packed out with dry canvas it was dry and lovely saturday too....
and of course Thurday, ten am.. right after Midnight Madness i was at the first ever "Known World Sock Guild" meeting.... the LJ group is kwsockguild and we are also on Ravelry....
in addition i bought a sword.
specifically i bought a Spanish Rapier from Zen Warior Armory.
i bought it for my dad, who has fenced since college. he took lessons well into retirement when he had time.. the guy in the shop, when he saw me do a quick lunge to see how the rapier felt, complemented me on it. i got taught by dad when i was.. ten? just the lunge, its about all i know how to do.
i gave it to dad on my way home from war on Saturday.
he loved it! he was practicing fencing moves all down the hallway... i think they will be hanging it in his office.
yes that was expensive
ah well. so was buying the pack down help
its a good number, being the answer to life the universe and everything.... plus my age.... but yes, i was in a new location.
i LIKE the location. it was Falcon Mew's old spot, up on Broadway, behind the barn. near Your Inner Vagabond........ i hope to stay there.. its shady and dryer than some spots, with many good neighbors.
the down side is that people were aparently still looking for me on Friday.. despite the directory, and ads in the Pennsic Independant.
also..... all brunettes apparently look alike. Sparrowhawk Studio had my old space, and people thought she was ME (boggle!)
because of the heat exhaustion problems (see prior posts) i took it VERY easy on set up. i even hired "the boys" from Nightshade Leather (aka Michael from Rennaisance Productions and company) to set up my sleeping tent in Bhakail. its on the Serengeti and too hot during daylight. they refused cash so i paid them in beer.
sadly we had a missing tent part, AND a mistake in the guy lines (a very easy one to make, i may add) which meant that when it rained first week.... my tent leaked... a lot. after we fixed both the missing part, and the mistake in guy lines, it stopped.. but it took many "can you buy me towels at Walmart?" requests to get the tent dried out. (a special shout out to Navarr for loaning me shop towels)
so.... first week i got up and running later than usual.. and business was slow (rain does that) but at least it was cool..... second week business picked up but it started getting hotter.....
oddly, it also got the mold count up.. i guess all the spores from when it rained?
anyway, i was FINE staying in my space in the shade.... but anytime i ventured out to the bank or post office during daylight (when they were open) well... it wasnt pretty.
as to how bored was i first week?
i have a small basket handbag and a small "spinning demo" tool basket (both with wood lids) from the Basket man. i wood burned my badge into my hand bag, and asked Dragonscale Jewelers to draw me a sheep for my spinning demo bag (yes we both commented on the "the little prince" reference there).. which i wood burned in. This worked out SO well that i bought another box from Tancred , took it to Thomas the Lapidary to get it drilled and turned into a "lazy Kate" or "spinning jenny" ..... a plying tool.. it holds spools for plying... i usually make one from a shoebox if i didnt bring mine....he even put cotter pins in the metal rods for me! then i had Dragonscale lady put sheep on that too..... she said since it held three spools, she put three sheep on it. so when i wood burrned THAT in i made a white faced, a black faced, and a Jacob sheep out of them.
beware the bored merchant
i got complements on my painted up Ashford Traveler spinning wheel.. and sold two Babe's Fiber Garden spinning wheels
"Pennsic Resistant" is a good way to describe that i think.....
kyleri was there with her Om Shanti Handcrafts stuff.... (love the soaps.... but many of them smell like food to me) and the service cat. i KNOW the cat was popular. dmn but that cat is mellow! there were service DOGS freaking out at Pennsic and the kitty was all sorts of "its cool......" but i suspect he was about as "done with it, thanks" as we were after Midnight Madness.
various things failed to show up at war, either because i forgot them at home, or the person who was supposed to deliver them never did......
but all in all i managed.
now there was rumors of a rain storm (reliable sounding ones i might add) so a LOT of the merchants were packing up Friday night.. or at least packing what they could. i asked for help and got my sleeping tent packed up Friday day..... the idea being that if i couldnt get OUT Friday night i would sleep in my merchant tent.
(saw Cindy Cooper and her second... they were all "what are you doing on this side of things???" as they looked at me and my van being there at 6 mumble friday night (grin) because my sleeping tent is JUST outside the edge of the Serengeti side merchants.. )
with some hired help i got out Friday at almost ten pm.
it was a bad packing job, mostly because the helpers didnt know my stock, and had no clue what to do when i was on the run to the locker... they tried though! so i got everything packed and off site ......
i slept in a hotel on the way home... well. ok i had insomnia in a hotel on the way home. watched "Secondhand Lions" (cool movie) and tossed and turned..
A/C and no drums.. and etc meant i couldnt sleep i guess....
got home Saturday. i am told that after the whole rush to get packed out with dry canvas it was dry and lovely saturday too....
and of course Thurday, ten am.. right after Midnight Madness i was at the first ever "Known World Sock Guild" meeting.... the LJ group is kwsockguild and we are also on Ravelry....
in addition i bought a sword.
specifically i bought a Spanish Rapier from Zen Warior Armory.
i bought it for my dad, who has fenced since college. he took lessons well into retirement when he had time.. the guy in the shop, when he saw me do a quick lunge to see how the rapier felt, complemented me on it. i got taught by dad when i was.. ten? just the lunge, its about all i know how to do.
i gave it to dad on my way home from war on Saturday.
he loved it! he was practicing fencing moves all down the hallway... i think they will be hanging it in his office.
yes that was expensive
ah well. so was buying the pack down help