Boston Ahts Festival

A long-overdue blog post! Finally! I've had an incredibly busy month so far, I'm actually pretty surprised I've managed to survive it.

September 11 - 13 (Friday - Sunday) was the Boston Ahts Festival - I had a booth in the artists' village and had fabulous time! Saturday was rained out, but I still managed to sell just a huge amount of work on Friday and Sunday, so I was really very happy... It was held in Christopher Columbus Park next to the North End in Boston, right on the waterfront. Here are some pictures.

Setting up on Friday... (the seated woman was my neighbor) - I was smack behind the pillar on the left with the vine growing over it. Argh! LOL. It didn't matter, in the end.

A shot of part of the harbor - it was very grey, rainy and cold on Friday!

Booth shot from Sunday morning - on a gorgeous day! I'd already sold what I think of as my signature piece (the shawl I use for my banner in my Etsy shop) by now... So the second 16-shaft advancing point twill scarf that I made on my new Weavebird was on my mannequin at this point. (Sold it, too!)


The foor traffic on Sunday was INSANE.

Harbor again, on Sunday evening, as I was heading back to my car, a happy weaver indeed...

So, that was a pretty busy three days, and, no sooner had I finished with that, then I was scrambling to finish my prep for a lecture to the New Hampshire Weavers' Guild on Wednesday. The lecture was actually a lot of fun, the attendees for my little class were fantastic, I talked a mile a minute, and the slide projecter worked with PowerPoint/my laptop on the first try! Yay! It was my first time leading a class, so I was kind of nervous, but I think it went well in the end, and now I'm not at all nervous for the follow-up lecture in October...

And in the midst of all this personal chaos, someone else in the family was having a pretty important day/reaching a milestone as well...

Ms. B started kindergarten! (Here she is showing off her new school backpack, about to head off with me on her first day - I swear I could travel to Europe for two weeks with only that backpack, lol - happily all she carries in it now is a file folder of papers and sometimes her favorite stuffed animal.) Her school is right down the street, so we walk to/fro every day, it's been very nice watching the leaves start to change... And she is loving school, that's my girl!