Fayetteville Art Walk

So, our last show was last weekend in Fayetteville, TX. This is that quiet little town over by LaGrange that is the easiest show we do. The whole show is set up on the town square, so you can just back your vehicle up right to your booth space and set up easily. It is very small so buyers don't get overwhelmed with choices or forget where your booth is and can't make it back to you when they are ready to buy.

The Fayetteville residents are super nice and everyone is happy to visit with you, talk about themselves and their town. Most of the customers are from Houston. These folks come to country to rest and relax on their farm/ranch or little house in town.

The art show folks take good care of the artists. They feed us on Saturday night. This year, there was a Friday night preview party out on a nearby ranch. They fed everyone and gave artists a chance to sell early. We didn't make it though. This, being our third show in a row, had us really low on inventory. So we were still at home in Boerne making bells and sails until about 4:00 Friday afternoon. Then we still had to load up, pack our clothes, etc before we could take off. We finaly got to Fayetteville at about 9:30 that night and we set up in the dark with our cute little head lamps on so we could see what we were doing!!

Sadly, the original hotel and restaurant that we came to know on our first trip to Fayetteville had a fire last year and this year it was gone - demolished. See the big open space..

This show gives out awards with cash prizes attaches. And two of our friends received recognitions. Both Steve Kriechbaum and Melanie Fain received awards. Here is a picture of Mel's booth.

And here is a picture of Steve's booth. In the background. Uh... with Steve outside of his booth playing his harmonica with a local bunch of musicians who sat aroung in the square playing great music the last couple of hours of the show.

A lot of visiting was done during this show. You can't help but do it. Here's Philip outside of the booth visiting - probably telling some wild tale.

And Frank Bird sitting alongside his wonderul pottery telling ANOTHER JOKE in some foreign accent. We can't see if the customer's eyes have glazed over yet, but Frank's wife, Suzy's probably have!

So, the show ended at 4:00pm on Sunday. That is perfect. More art shows should do that. Sales are usually down by that time, Customers are going to their homes and artists love to be through and packing up so they can get home easily enough.

Windsongs is off this weekend. We shipped out lots of bells for Mother's Day. We will be off next weekend but will be getting ready for the Texas Arts and Crafts show in Kerrville on Mother's Day Weekend.