Mud 'N Music

That's what they should've called the festival.....
It was an adventure. After driving for an hour and a half, we arrived Thursday night in time to set up a severely tangled canopy in the dark with the company of about 10,000 mosquitoes. On the bright side, we didn't have to haul everything down the hill the next morning when they stopped letting cars on the field because of the mud. And by "we", I really mean Joe.

Joe is my hero. He picked up what I thought were really heavy pieces of my display as if they were nothing, set up pretty much everything, kept the canopy from succumbing to the inclement weather, kept the tents dry-ish, engineered a lighting design (that we never got power to), cooked burgers and kept me company through two very long days.

The display looked great, and lots of people stopped to oooh and aaaah over the really cool jewelry, but it was a cash-poor crowd. It's hard to compete with nachos at 3am when you're stuck in the middle of a muddy farm field...... go figure.
I did sell a few pieces, so it wasn't a lost cause. And we got to listen to some interesting music...... some really good (Vorcza, Screaming Headless Torsos) and some not-so-good (Accordion Death Squad, the Mathematicians).

I'll be taking a hiatus for much of the next two weeks..... two of my friends are getting married (Congrats Audie & Jake, Lisel & Shawn), which will keep me out of the studio. Then the race is on to Art Hop! Stay tuned, there may be previews of some of the pieces I'm going to make especially for STRUT III (the Art Hop fashion show).....