The Yellow Dirty Festival - Chapter 3

So in anticipation of a busy Friday, the girls arrive early to be ready for the crowds. Thursday had been so busy.....but as the day went on they crowds were not as they had expected and they notice that there seemed to be a lot of dirt accumulating on there displays.....Later that night as they were home they noticed blowing their noses....it was black !!!! They had never had Black Boogers !!! So you can just imagine how much dirt was in their booth, on their displays and on their jewelry !!! They were not very happy. But they were excited and looking for a GREAT saturday and sunday !.....right

Chapter 2 - Yellow Dirty Festival

The girls were so excited that they got there at 8am the next morning. Ready for the crowds of people to come and buy their creations. Even though the ants were marching in their booth and the grand daddy long legs spiders were there too, they did have a good amount of customers shopping the first day of the show.

Other artists seemed to enjoyed the unusual crowd of people, shopping and buying.

It was a good first day !!!

A Story - The Yellow Dirty Festival.........

Chapter 1

This is the story of 4 girls that set out to do the Yellow Dirty Festival. They had worked so hard all summer long. Creating new jewelry designs, making new beads to go into their designs. They were so excited as it got closer to the day of the set-up for the show.

That day finally came and they went out into the woods to set up their exhibit and jewelry for this great 4 day show. They took 2 long days to set everything up , just so it was perfect and everything looked great! One of the girls drove 45 minutes one way to get to the show, so she had to get up even earlier then the other ones, and also got home much later than the others.

But that did not matter as they were all very excited. They had heard from many other artists that this was the BIGGEST, BEST and most PROFITABLE show. In fact some artists called it the " New Car Show", meaning that you could make enough to purchase a new car. Hmmm.....

Chapter 2 .... tomorrow, check back then.....

2nd Annual Art-B-Que - Avondale, GA

Well I have to say that this was one of the BEST new Art shows of the past 5 years ! Bart Webb, of Bart Webb Studios, put on an rockin art show ! It was held in Avondale off of East College and North Avondale. Over 60 Artists lined the streets of Franklin and Pine. There was music, BBQ and beer. I believe that most of the artists did very well today.



Bart had the help of the city of Avondale with promoting the show, and it was a winner. Advertising is the key to any successfull show, and this was proven today.



We'll be back next year ! Thanks again Bart for a GREAT show !!!

Spring Art & Craft Shows

Well, it is spring, almost feels like summer. We have done a few shows already and some have been good, others not so good. Conyers Cherry Blossom Festival, March 28 & 29th, the last weekend of March. The weather is always unpredictable and we will NEVER do a show on this weekend, that is outside, ever again.

Lemonade Days in Dunwoody, April 17 & 18th, was pretty good. They lined us up on the mail street leading down to the amusements and I believe this helped with more sales. Weather was ok.

Inman Park Festival, April 25 & 26th, was our best Inman Park. We had a new spot on Hurt Street, and with our new display, that my wonderful sister Donna Myrick designed and build, was a show stopper and we had pretty good sales. And thanks to our neighbors for the FREE carpet !!

We will be at Roswell Square this coming weekend for the Colors of Arts Festival. Come out and see out new display and buy your Mother and nice handmade gift.

Hope to see you at one of ours shows !
Diane

I'm a bad, bad blogger

Well I promised that I would blog at least 3 days a week, way back in March and here it is May.
So I have decided to set my home page as my blog, so that I will have to blog more often. I have lots of stuff to blog about, but I just put it off, thinking I am way to busy to do it.

So, I am going to do better. Blog about shows I do, classes I teach, contest/challenge I enter.
But for tonight, this is it. I really need to list my van on Craig's list. The transmission died in it and I need to sell what is left of it. Yes, Bill and I are working with one car......hopefully I will be able to get a newer vehicle in a month or so.

Night Peeps !

The Pineapple Bead

Well I think that I might just be hooked on doing sculptural beads. I have a wonderful customer/student that requested a pineapple bead, and the pineapple means "Welcome".

So, for all of your South Carolinians, I will have these available on my etsy shop soon.

http://www.dkovach.etsy.com

Yummy, I think all this talk about pineapple has made me hungry.

So, have a great evening !!!

Diane