Weekend Update on Thursday-Balloon Festival

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Last weekend was the much anticipated debut ( I am not counting that whack excuse of a "craft show") of mine and Liz's awesome creations at a festival! We teamed up to tackle the Wakefield Hot Air Balloon Festival as vendors. It was far less daunting to go in a a duo and it was nice to draw people into the booth for one item and have them love the other as well! The first evening we quickly realized that some changes needed to be made to our set-up and we corrected them for Saturday. The booth looked so much more appealing the second day. Not to mention we befriended the vendor behind us and, with a little sweet talkin', managed to get our booth moved into a more desirable location.

Here is pregnant me chillin' in our booth Saturday morning, and by chillin' I mean sweating my tuckus off in 100% humidity and 80-some-odd degree heat....at 10 am! Saturday was rough, temperature wise, but we made even more modifications for Sunday which included a tarp across the back of the booth for some shade! It made all the difference on Sunday!

Here is some of the stuff laid out flat before we got wise and hung it up for display.
One of the onesies hung up on Sat is my favorite, which reminds me, if it is still in my arsenal I may have to keep it for baby girl because i love it so much!

All in all, it was such a wonderful experience. Teaming up meant we had someone to talk to, bounce ideas off of and take a bit of the pressure of filling up an entire booth with stuff off! We both brought our sewing machines with us so we could get some stuff done while we sat. I managed to finish a bunch of onesies on Saturday before I had to leave for a wedding (that is a completely different post of amusing antics I will try to get up this week!) and Sunday I sewed a dress someone had ordered the day before to be picked up and one for Alicia's sweetie Brea! We handed out a lot of cards and I already have 3 orders from the contacts I made at the festival and one from being logged in to my other blog (www.punchkinwear.blogspot.com) while I was voting for Tem Tem(You go vote too! She's #5 in the kids category)! Liz and I will definitely be teaming up again for some more festivals and the Providence Open Market in September and October. If all goes well, I will have my fancy new camera before baby girl arrives. Yes!!