Johnny Appleseed Festival this past weekend and it was a lot of work and fun. I had never done this festival before and it went well. You couldn't ask for better weather. The place was packed with people. They average between 200,000-400,000 people in that weekend alone. Our day officially didn't start until 10:00 am, however, people were at the park as early as 7:30am.
My neighbor sold ceramics and he had a line of people waiting for him to open up.
I had a lot of postive reactions to my dolls and buyers. Feedback was great and very welcomed.
This is a photo of me and my sister Barb. She is such a great sister!!! She flew in from San Francisco to help me run my booth. Festivals are new to her and she seemed to really enjoy herself. She is a ceramicist and brought some bowls to display with my dolls and they were fantastic. We've been batting around some ideas to do some collabrative pieces.
Hi Carla
ReplyDeleteI came across here through looking at your stuff on Flickr but I always check profiles to see if people blog as well. I kept reading and going through your one so theres definitely something going on here that I connect with. Well I made an installation recently that had 'dolls' in it. Although they deliberately did not have limbs - I just wanted them to be very essential and with limbs the doll takes on a character I find? Also theres a question of what the arms are doing.
I will be doing some more doll forms, at some time soon and will incorporate printmaking somehow.
best wishes
Aine
........oh and I think that you and your sister look really lovely in those outfits that you are wearing are those particularly Mexican ? She sounds like a lovely sister --I have 2 brothers but am an only girl !!!
Looks like it was a great weekend. Your booth looks fabulous — nicely decorated and it highlights the artwork so well. Good job, Cat! And Barb!
ReplyDeleteOh... oh, if only I'd discovered you before the festival! I live in Fort Wayne and this is my very favorite festival.
ReplyDeleteI hope you'll do it again next year.