This past weekend was University of West Florida’s Festival on the Green. And we participated in it with a booth for our One Shoe Diaries stuff. The first day was alright, it threatened to rain all day but it held off. I met many wonderful people. Names escape me, I apologize. The nice woman on my left with her hand made purses and other items, including a cool onesie, never thought I would know what a onesie is :) She also had the most well behaved adorable little girl. And most admirable was the fact she was adopting a four year old boy from Africa into her family.
Others were the girls selling wind chimes, who bless their hearts had a rough inaugural festival experience. The people selling the soap with the boy who hated to hear “Fire in the Hole!” (explanation to come) A woman selling jellies and jams who makes a darn good peach salsa I hear, the tye-dye girls, the jewelry lady and last but not least the necklace girl on my right. Who I found out through the course of the day was a premie that was born weighing only a pound and a half. Amazing how tough a small baby can be.
Since Sharon could not be with me on friday I was on my own and had taken the puggles with me. They were great, I was impressed how well-behaved they can be in those situations. Although Jinny did get a little scared of the gunfire. A military history display a few booths away was complete with rifles and cannons which they repeatedly fired blanks from scaring the crap out of everyone. But sometimes they did give the now infamous yell “Fire in the Hole” before blasting off a round, but sometimes they forgot the warning. This was the first year they fired weapons and hopefully the last.
The next day Sharon and I woke up to huge thunderstorms rolling through. We tried to make a go of it and set up. We toughed it out for a bit. I thought for sure it was going to clear up. But it never did, so we packed back up and headed home. But not before hearing some really great news. Come to find out the night before they had an awards ceremony that we did not attend and we had won 1st Place in the best arts and crafts vendor category!! Even thought we did not sell a thing we still made our money back, and as most of you know, we need every penny we can get :)
