Good Evening, folks from the Lilac Festival!

If you are visiting because you picked up my card at the Lilac Festival Hello!  and Thank you for braving the cold today to come down to the Lilac Festival!  I have most of my photos here throughout the blog postings and I'll get a page of all of the photos up together in the next couple of days - if you would like to make a purchase just drop me an email and I can hook you up!

We're All Set Up!!

It's chilly!

Lilac Festival Tomorrow...

So the kitten thought it would be a good idea to wake me up at 6am... and I couldn't get back to sleep so I got up, followed Cleo downstairs and saw they they'd eaten all their kibble... I refilled their bowls and headed up to the sewing room to get working on everything for the Lilac Festival tomorrow.  It had snowed all night and partway into the morning.  Luckily the snow stopped and what had fallen has melted!  Rain is forecasted for tomorrow - totally lame.  I wasn't expecting it to be 20 and bright and sunny but I was at least hoping for no rain and it to not be freezing cold... hmm I just checked the Weather Network and they're not calling for rain until the evening - not too bad.  

Everything is ready to go for tomorrow morning - a lot got done today, we even managed a trip to Ikea for breakfast and to look for picture frame stands - they didn't have any so we went to Michael's, then this afternoon when I needed a break we went grocery shopping!  hahaha  Now I need sleep... up at 6am to get ready...

 

Weather forecast...

Here's a prairie shot for ya!  Just checked the weather forecast and its supposed to be sunny on Sunday!  C'mon Lilac Festival!

Photos all packaged...

Shot of me here this morning with my Stache on.  We had lots of snow down south last night... fingers crossed for no precipitation on Sunday!  I got the photos all packaged last night... all I have to do with the photos now is wrap the originals I had printed for display, frame four of the photos, and make dividers so I can access each of the photos quickly in the box that they'll be in.  That's what's on the agenda for this evening, along with printing out price lists, cutting out decorative staches, and working on a display for the necklaces - and stands for the photo frames...  then tomorrow I'll pack up all of the gear and supplies to go to get ready for Sunday!  Here are a few more of the photos that I'll have at the Festival.

Once the Lilac Festival is done I'll be blogging about what I'm cooking and what I'm photographing.  My brit bestie Serrene is going to be staying with me in like two weeks! Whoot - we're going to go on a few photo excursions while she's here.  Its gonna be fun times!

Ta for now!  Blog again tomorrow with some snaps of the pricelists and packaged photos.  And I'll see if I can work out the mobile blogging and blog a bunch from the Lilac Festival!

A few more photos that will be available on Sunday at the Lilac Fest...

Here are two more colour shots!  I have quite a few black and white shots too... and a variety of prairie and coastal shots... here I'll post a few more...

Here are two B&Ws for you to take a gander at!  I'm going to package the rest of the photos tonight - about 80!  And I'm in the process of cutting out some bristol board Staches for display in the tent!  Perhaps I'll wear a giant one like Flava Flave!  hahaha  If I had access to a scroll saw or band saw I would cut out a big wooden stache to have as a sign sticking out off the booth... hmm... never know what the next couple of days will bring... perhaps I can find one to use... or just buy one!  We'll see, we'll see.  Well the work day begins...

Photographs for Sale...

A quick little look at two of the 14 photos I'll have for sale at the Lilac Festival this coming Sunday!!  I'm getting so excited to get out there and sell some photographs!  Of course the colour on the actual printed photos is much nicer that what you see here - these were just saved small for a quick sneaky peek!  Now lunch is over - back to work for me!  More pics later of the photos that I'll be selling this weekend!

Busy Weekend...

Not the best picture quality, took a quick snap with my iphone, to give a sneaky peek of the Staches all packaged.  I have some boxed and some bagged and ribbon tied.  Got them all packaged now.  Got 24 of the 104 photographs packaged... I need to get more flat poly bags to get them all packed and protected.  I have one of my take aways in with each photo.  The pricing has been decided:

8 x 12 = $20

11 x 16.5 = $40

Mustache Necklaces = $30

Thats that.  I was originally thinking 40 and 60 for the photos but its a street festival and people will only carry limited cash with them so I don't want to over price for the venue.  It is also my first time selling my photographs - I feel like I'm underselling by quite a bit but I really think this pricing will work for this venue.

Yana and I will be located near the Rose and Crown - just a few booths down from the Paradise Mini Donuts...

I'm hoping to get the rest of the photos packaged now in the next night or two, after a trip to the packaging place, so that the packaging has a chance to press nice and flat.  I still have some things to make as well - some frame stands for the four framed photos that I'll have at the festival.  I would also like to make some giant paper Staches - we'll see how that works out!  

Had a BBQ this weekend - take a look:

It was a very busy weekend - Chris and the neib RJ finished off our fence this weekend!  The back yard is looking so much more complete now!  Didn't get to sit out and enjoy the deck that much as it was quite a cool weekend, but now that the back yard is just about complete we have the whole summer ahead of us to enjoy it.

Time for a little surfing before I start my work day.