One Event Down, One To Go

Well, weeks of sewing and I've sent off 13 boxes to Pennsylvania for the Ren Faire out there. Pennsic War lasts 11 straight days, officially the merchants can start selling 4 days earlier now.  However shipments to the Coopers Lake Campground won't be accepted till a certain day so I had to wait till Thursday of last week to get it all out.

 

I have ROOM IN MY LIVING ROOM AGAIN!!!!!!  The cost for shipping everything was $178 though. Ouch.  Hopefully things sell well. Whatever doesn't will be sent back to me after the event is over.

 

This leaves me open to now make items for the Bristol Ren Faire here in the state.  I've got orders for bats, catnip toys, large griffens, baby griffens, and assorted odds and ends.  The ladies at that booth buy 'as needed' so it's more of an on demand sort of thing.  This event runs from the week of the 4th of July till I think the second weekend in September.  Only Saturday and Sunday of each week though, so it's 8 weekends, 16 or 17 days (opening week starts on Friday).  I'm crossing my fingers that they have good weather each weekend, not rain or tornado warnings as sometimes happens.

 

With more time, and with summer moving along, I also need to cut catnip - enough to last me all winter till the start of the next growing season.  It's past the first flowering at this point and the seeds are maturing. Harvesting it is like being sprinkled with black pepper 'beads', the stuff gets everywhere. And this includes down the cleavage.  Argh.

 

We have good stuff here though, the catnip is very strong smelling and with the heat and dry wind it's been dehydrating in around 24 hours on the tarps on the driveway this year!  That's phenomenally fast.  Usually it's a 4 or 5 day span till it reaches the 'Rice Krispies' stage but all this week it's been tooling along pretty fast.