Posts Tagged ‘craft shows

Life is hard these days. At the brunt of the recession, many people find themselves jobless; not because they lack the skills, but simply because the companies themselves are cutting on costs. If you find yourself on the chopping board, you lose your job, plain and simple. But that also means that you suddenly have all the time in the world.

Life can be so boring for many grownups. We all have the desire to have fun and play sports like when we were kids, but it’s a fact that we simply cannot afford that luxury anymore. We now have responsibilities to attend to, and financial obligations to sustain. We tend to live lives that border on the mundane because of this, where we live to earn to survive.

The Tempe Festival of the Arts is a continuously top-ranking art festival in the nation. Granted of this honor of being among the top 20 by Sunshine Artist, it has also received the pinnacle award from the International Festival and events Association. The spring and fall events reach populations of about 250,000 over the course of a three-day weekend.

Back then, when I was in college, I was a theatre student. Every time we had a student-directed show, we used to get together with the teachers and our other mentors right after. We get together so we could analyze how the event went from start until end. This is what we called a postmortem. Let me do something similar right now with the craft fair that I attended.

Recently, at around midnight last night, my wife and I got back from the Spring Bada-Bing. I was very highly satisfied with the craft show I just attended; I can honestly say it was a very good show! Of course, we were both very exhausted, and things didn’t go perfectly. Though, we pretty much had a good time and made some sale, all in all.

A cacophony of brass bells ring out, as a chorus of, “We Wish You A Merry Christmas”. Swinging the instruments that are the size of milk bottles are six people; each and every one of them had never lifted a bell half an hour ago. They are only some of the hundreds reliving some of England’s forgotten arts on the event called the Lancanshire’s first ever Traditions Craft Fair. This event took place recently at the Lostock Hall High School.

Anyone who plans to visit the Ohio State Fair would want to make a break from the tired olf carnival rides for something really special; the Fine Arts Exhibition. There will be around 300 pieces in virtually every medium, so the exhibit will be held in the Cox Fine Arts Center and it will have something for everyone in attendance.

Recently, at around midnight last night, my wife and I got back from the Spring Bada-Bing. I was very highly satisfied with the craft show I just attended; I can honestly say it was a very good show! Of course, we were both very exhausted, and things didn’t go perfectly. Though, we pretty much had a good time and made some sale, all in all.

A small open-air art fair started in a humble spot of Old Louisville’s St. James Court five decades ago. What was then know as the St. James Court Art show has grown into one of the largest art shows in the country. There are over 700 aspiring and established artists that arrive from every corner of the country to this place.

A ringing of brass bells sounds out a chorus from the song “We Wish You A Merry Christmas”. There are six people swinging the milk-bottle sized instruments, and believe it or not, all of them have never lifted a bell around half an hour ago. These people are only a few of the hundreds reliving some of England’s forgotten arts at an event called the Lancanshire’s first ever Traditions Craft Fair. This took place recently at the Lockstock Hall High School.