This past weekend was the MAJOR event in the area, the North Quabbin Garlic & Arts Festival. This was my third year applying for and being juried in and YES is does take a lot of inventory to fill up a 10' X 10' booth. There are a lot of things that are lovely about this festival. It's close to home...a HUGE plus. Since it is on private property and a bit out of the way, you can set up the day before and at the end of day one, zip up your booth and walk away. None of this having to break it down and set it up for day two. These things probably do not make much of a difference to the general public but to us vendors...this is HUGE. Another lovely thing is that since it IS close to home, lots of people we know like our friends Ben and Cindy who are in this photo with myself and my husband Tim, stop by and say hi. Another great thing is that it is non profit...the only people making $$ are the vendors and some of the booths are not selling anything since they are informational and/or community service driven. http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2015/09/crowd_turns_out_for_2015_...
YUP, it's that time of year again.....getting ready for the 2 day local festival, the North Quabbin Garlic and Arts Festival. This years event is September 26th and the 27th.
The festival last year attracted 13,000 people which is pretty good considering where it is located which is on a farm accessed by country roads (or shuttle buses since parking in limited). The organizers are all volunteers and over 200 people sign up to help out during the weekend.
Needless to say, it takes a lot of inventory to fill up a 10' X 10' booth so I have been sewing up a storm. As you can see, there are lots of items at this point that need a label so I set up a labeling station yesterday out on the porch. http://garlicandarts.org/artists/
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This past weekend was the MAJOR event in the area, the North Quabbin Garlic & Arts Festival. This was my third year applying for and being juried in and YES is does take a lot of inventory to fill up a 10' X 10' booth. There are a lot of things that are lovely about this festival. It's close to home...a HUGE plus. Since it is on private property and a bit out of the way, you can set up the day before and at the end of day one, zip up your booth and walk away. None of this having to break it down and set it up for day two. These things probably do not make much of a difference to the general public but to us vendors...this is HUGE. Another lovely thing is that since it IS close to home, lots of people we know like our friends Ben and Cindy who are in this photo with myself and my husband Tim, stop by and say hi. Another great thing is that it is non profit...the only people making $$ are the vendors and some of the booths are not selling anything since they are informational and/or community service driven. 