Hello Everyone,

Well, the weekend is over and I have to take the time to tell you about our experience at the Art/Craft Fair on Saturday. The day started very early as we loaded our van and car with our wares at 6:30 in the morning. We had lots of help this time as our daughters' boyfriends and our youngest daughter got up early to help us load and carry in to the Fair. One of their friends also met us there and as a result, we were set up in record time.

Usually, Paul and I are scrambling to be finished in the two hour time slot we are given for set up but with all of our young, hardworking children and friends we were actually sitting around waiting for the Fair to start. I've included two pictures of this lovely group. Notice the second picture with all of their hardworking muscles showing!! They are a great group of kids which is truly obvious when they were willing to get up so early on their morning off and do such an awful job.

The Fair was lots of fun. We try to bring out a wide variety of colorful paintings to catch people's eyes and get them excited about painting. We've included a picture of our table so you can see our set-up. We have two large panels that we set up at each end to hang paintings on and they are a little difficult to see in the picture. We both paint during the day, answer questions, handle sales and hand out information about our new classes. It's a great time as we meet many great people and hear lots of enthusiasm about our work. We also enjoy the lively social atmosphere of the Fair and since we live in the same town, we also get to see many friends during the day. It's a fun day. We find these days to be very successful as they enable us to recruit students for our classes.

The whole day ends with tear down and the same crew came back to help us. Again we were done in record time. To thank this lovely group, Paul and I used some of our proceeds from the day to take them all out for pizza and wings and as a result, the day ended with a lovely and lively celebration.

Hope your Saturday was as productive and fun as ours was,

Cathy