Vance Craft Explosion

Vance Craft Explosion
Originally uploaded by average lavender

Okay, so it ended up being more like a...pool of stagnant craft? Craft show and tell? Adorable-because-it's-so-small-quaint-slow-and-kind-of-sad craft experience? Two pretty sad points: 1) two vendors left early, at four, instead of sticking it out until five 2) the bake sale had no baked goods.

We were, surprisingly, prepared. Last night George put together our booth - made from palettes, some boards we had lying around - and painted the faces of the palettes with some $3 blue paint from Lowe's. To our right: Dogwood Digs, makers of a wide assortment of kids clothes and accessories. To our left: Slaphappy, two cool ladies recycling clothes into way more awesome clothes. (Note: find their stuff at Twice Round in W. Asheville.)

Much to my surprise the paint chip books didn't sell...at all. Predictably, the tiniest books (1"x1") sold very well. (There were only five.) Interestingly, three of the tiny books were purchased by different, unassociated women with the intent of being used for "fairy secrets" by small girls.

George sold one bowl, but received many, many compliments on them. We think they'll sell better at the Big Crafty and, hopefully, Etsy.

Now we're going to clean up the site of the real Craft Explosion: our house.