Last night, I got an email from a friend who has a booth next to ours at Middlefaire. He and his wife had gone out to the property and saw our canopy all mangled and torn. They proceeded to take it apart for us and then stored it in and around their booth. They are truly great people ( Read more... )

The truck is mostly packed. The in-laws are here to watch Kai while we are gone. A very muddy first weekend @ Middlefaire awaits us. Julie and I leave in the morning after taking Kai to school ( Read more... )

Here is a pic of me at Middlefaire. There are others of Julie and I, but they have not been posted (that I know of) by the folks who took the pics. I am playing a game called Rat Pucking. It's like Golf, only with stuffed rats being flung with sticks.( behind the curtain )

We are off to Middlefaire in just a couple of hours. I shall return with tales of conquest and shrubberies!

I've been making a bunch of soap lately. One of the batches failed big time. It doesn't look right, doesn't smell right and it's squishy soft. I think I know what happened ( Read more... )

The last few weeks have been a mixed bag of events. ( Read more... )

The first weekend of the faire was fraught with problems. ( For those who were unable to see kulilinei's post. Very long. )

I was going to post a lengthy report on Middlefaire, but kulilinei beat me to it. There's not really much I can add to this except for maybe the heat and the rain and then the heat with humidity afterwards. Wash, rinse, repeat ( Read more... )

I haven't had much time to keep up with LJ the last few days. This weekend was mostly about getting ready for Middlefaire. We both made a bunch of new jewelry. I continued painting the EZ-UP. Stuff was organized and clothes packed. Julie did a bunch of sewing for the ceiling of the EZ-UP (to hide the metal poles). And I cleaned around 600 ( Read more... )