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stitchwhichThat's done. The event, I mean. Arn is going to unload the truck and then I'll be back at working but there's no real deadline to that - at least, there's no 'sometime in the next seven days' deadline. I think the event went well. Every time I looked up at people, they were talking, laughing, watching others... the Artisan's Row thing worked out really well - I had 17 entrants/artists set up along the gallery of the dance hall and quite a few of them were doing 'hand's on' stuff. One was mostly out visiting others (she had her C&I record book set up as a static display) and she was laughing when she told me that she kept getting hunted down and dragged back to talk about this scroll or that one. It was good to see her eyes sparkle... And the 'you're on your own" Gaming Tourney. My goodness! We usually have maybe 5 to 8 folks sign up for that (more often, 4-5) and this time there were apparently more than 20. I know this because we made little tokens for each entrant, three to a person, for them to surrender to anyone they lost to... we started out making 6 sets because that was how many loose gold beads I had left over from the necklaces I savaged for my garb decorations. Then we were just rolling along in production (meaning we'd already chopped up too much ribbon) so we used the big glass beads from the same necklaces and ended up with 20 sets. And we ran out at the event. We were reduced to giving folks sets of paper signed by the Troll/Game Token Guardian so people could join in. Amazing.
It was the first time in known Marinus history that a feast sold out before the event had started and we had more than the 'normal high' number of guests. Man, am I glad that the day was so warm and people - especially the children - could wander outside and enjoy the practically-balmy weather. The 'smokers pavilion' that I had set up so the smokers would be protected from the weather ended up being used by all sorts of folks. The benches were too handy to be ignored. I feel a little odd about that idea. On one hand, I expected poor weather conditions (it's almost always breezy at that site sinnce it's right on the bay) and wanted the smokers to be able to relax in semi-comfort, but on the other hand, I really didn't need the thing after all and it appears that since non-smokers were relaxing in it (especially children), the smokers ended up smoking all around the outside of the building, many of them ignoring the open windows they were smoking under. (And, unfortunatly, ignoring the ashtrays that I had placed in the pavilion.) But still, I'm going to keep the idea in mind to suggest to other 'cold weather' Autocrats. It was a simple thing and would have been useful if the weather had turned bad.
There was no drama or even much stress for the staff. That was grand. Everything rolled along just as it should and I didn't have to put out any fires or soothe any nerves. The cook and I both had 'keepers' who made sure that we stayed fed and hydrated, and even sat down occassionally, so it was, oddly, almost relaxing. Of course, that does seem to be the way of it when you spread out the 'stress' throughout the pre-event time so most everything is taken care of before the day.
I don't know. Maybe I'll do it again sometime. I remember that I did used to like it. Although if there is a next time, there will not be a clothing-workshop running three months before the event. I'm really gratified that so many of us now have new garb in a new style but if I had envisioned that I'd be the only experienced sewing person helping all the others, I would have not suggested the idea. I spent more time in the two weeks before the event helping folks with their sewing than I did doing *anything* else, including sleeping. Combine that with Christmas week and you get one tired Terri. But a happy one. One of the ladies with a new gown had all of us wearing ours line up for a picture. I hope it came out okay. I'd like to have a copy.
It was the first time in known Marinus history that a feast sold out before the event had started and we had more than the 'normal high' number of guests. Man, am I glad that the day was so warm and people - especially the children - could wander outside and enjoy the practically-balmy weather. The 'smokers pavilion' that I had set up so the smokers would be protected from the weather ended up being used by all sorts of folks. The benches were too handy to be ignored. I feel a little odd about that idea. On one hand, I expected poor weather conditions (it's almost always breezy at that site sinnce it's right on the bay) and wanted the smokers to be able to relax in semi-comfort, but on the other hand, I really didn't need the thing after all and it appears that since non-smokers were relaxing in it (especially children), the smokers ended up smoking all around the outside of the building, many of them ignoring the open windows they were smoking under. (And, unfortunatly, ignoring the ashtrays that I had placed in the pavilion.) But still, I'm going to keep the idea in mind to suggest to other 'cold weather' Autocrats. It was a simple thing and would have been useful if the weather had turned bad.
There was no drama or even much stress for the staff. That was grand. Everything rolled along just as it should and I didn't have to put out any fires or soothe any nerves. The cook and I both had 'keepers' who made sure that we stayed fed and hydrated, and even sat down occassionally, so it was, oddly, almost relaxing. Of course, that does seem to be the way of it when you spread out the 'stress' throughout the pre-event time so most everything is taken care of before the day.
I don't know. Maybe I'll do it again sometime. I remember that I did used to like it. Although if there is a next time, there will not be a clothing-workshop running three months before the event. I'm really gratified that so many of us now have new garb in a new style but if I had envisioned that I'd be the only experienced sewing person helping all the others, I would have not suggested the idea. I spent more time in the two weeks before the event helping folks with their sewing than I did doing *anything* else, including sleeping. Combine that with Christmas week and you get one tired Terri. But a happy one. One of the ladies with a new gown had all of us wearing ours line up for a picture. I hope it came out okay. I'd like to have a copy.
