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Grandma Craft Show no more!
Last saturday I went to a craft show held at the local technical school gym. It's been a few years since I've been to a craft show in town because the last one I went to, everything was old woman crafts. At least every table had something crocheted or knitted. Someone would be selling crocheted doll clothes, plastic canvas tissue box holders, and at least one person still making scrunchies.
I was wrong. The minute I walked in, I was sorta disappointed. The first table I saw was an Avon table. Right across from it was a Pampered Chef table. These aren't crafts! Another table had these mini notebook holders that obviously looked like the woman went to A.C. Moore to pick up balsa wood holders and a sheet of flowery rub ons and rubbed on a couple flowers on the wood, stuck a mini notebook and pen in it, slapped a tag on it and put it on her table. Half the crafts people were selling were no brainers in terms of using imagination and a significant amount of planning on their part to make their stuff. The only person I saw who actually did that was my friend Maria who had her own table there! I was surprised. Well half surprised, I figured since she's an employee at a craft store that she'd get into a type of crafts sooner or later, it was bound to happen. She had her own table selling beaded jewelry. Her table was all nice and colorful and she was sitting there in the middle of making another necklace answering pesky old women's questions. I was quite proud of her.
I know a lot of people, especially the gals on my links page make handbags and sell them at various craft shows across the country. The only handbags I saw were those country style padded bags only older women wear. Are you serious?
Where are the old ladies? Where's the crochet and knitted items? I kinda miss them now. They've replaced them with middle-aged moms eager to make some change selling fleece blankets (that's something diffificult to make, NOT) and by becoming your local Mary Kay representative. C'mon now. I want my grandmas back.
What I'm wondering is what kind of screening process, if any, was done while this show was being organized. They obviously weren't too strict on what can be included in a CRAFT show, or maybe they didn't get as many spot rentals as they expected and bent the rules. Who knows. I'm going to check out all the other craft shows in this area next year because if the others are like this, then my sister and I will set up our own craft show. For goodness sakes. We've got A.C. Moore, Joann's Fabrics, and Michael's just opened up, get your butts over there and get crafting people!
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