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Craft fair today. Full of women who MUST have EVERYTHING! and their husbands. Also cosplaying teens and their parents, looking woefully sad at the lack of that exact hue of pukey orange.
I was lucky, and tuned them out for the most part, but I am drained. My bones feel heavy in my skin. Bonuses included $3 tubes much longer than my fingers, full of shiny beads. Pretty hand-dyed fat quarters for about $5 each, and a vegetarian lunch menu that consisted of more than bread and cheese this year.
Well, at least, a vegetarian menu that didn't sell out before 11. Last year had a fancy menu but no food. This year there were two options, endlessly restocked. I applaud Epic for finally grasping the benefits of a freezer unit, and also that what may work for a small, established cafe does not neccesarily suit a much larger and temporary mess hall.
For Fujiwarano Sai, who I am currently turning into a doll for a friend, I found purple cord, and some wonderfully cheap fat quarters ($3.50) that were somewhat Japanese-like, and that gorgeous vibrant purple. I also got some cheap homespun white linen for his kimono, but that's hardly as spectacular.
Also: I met a craft-crazy friend there, who said she'd recognised my scarf. I can't remember if I've mentioned it here, but my favourite scarf, made by me, all pretty purples and browns and greens, went missing when Linz was down here for her graduation. I moped for at least two days.
She said she'd seen it on Thursday, around the neck of a little bent old lady. She'd recognised the colours, and the clumsy knotted clump where I'd inexplicably forgotten how to neatly finish off. I'm very glad that my darling scarf is being loved and appreciated, instead of rotting in a Canberra Centre bin. ^_^
I was lucky, and tuned them out for the most part, but I am drained. My bones feel heavy in my skin. Bonuses included $3 tubes much longer than my fingers, full of shiny beads. Pretty hand-dyed fat quarters for about $5 each, and a vegetarian lunch menu that consisted of more than bread and cheese this year.
Well, at least, a vegetarian menu that didn't sell out before 11. Last year had a fancy menu but no food. This year there were two options, endlessly restocked. I applaud Epic for finally grasping the benefits of a freezer unit, and also that what may work for a small, established cafe does not neccesarily suit a much larger and temporary mess hall.
For Fujiwarano Sai, who I am currently turning into a doll for a friend, I found purple cord, and some wonderfully cheap fat quarters ($3.50) that were somewhat Japanese-like, and that gorgeous vibrant purple. I also got some cheap homespun white linen for his kimono, but that's hardly as spectacular.
Also: I met a craft-crazy friend there, who said she'd recognised my scarf. I can't remember if I've mentioned it here, but my favourite scarf, made by me, all pretty purples and browns and greens, went missing when Linz was down here for her graduation. I moped for at least two days.
She said she'd seen it on Thursday, around the neck of a little bent old lady. She'd recognised the colours, and the clumsy knotted clump where I'd inexplicably forgotten how to neatly finish off. I'm very glad that my darling scarf is being loved and appreciated, instead of rotting in a Canberra Centre bin. ^_^