KaBOOM.

[merimask]

Well!  The Ren Faire at Hawk Creek went pretty well.  I did it more for the pocket change (and because it was a good cause) than for hard income, but it was a bit bigger than I'd anticipated.  Saturday was a good day.  I got a bunch of compliments on my masks and even sold a few (I wasn't really expecting to).  No one bought the Koi masks but everyone liked them and knew they were Koi, so that's a good thing.  I even sold a few prints.  People LOVE my IY fanart and buy it even if they don't know what it is...it cracks me up!  Some woman was totally plotzing over this Sesshoumaru painting, and I even sold a couple of Inuyasha prints to people who had no idea who he was.  Cute!!

The weather this weekend, though...scary!  Saturday was just as hot as hell.  Really very windy too; gusts of 40 MPH or more made it really difficult to stay open, my tent was rockin' and rollin'.  I ended up closing early because it was just too difficult, and things were getting knocked over.  The wind was freaky and HOT, it didn't cool things down a bit.  On the way home we could see this awful black cloud that was literally rolling towards us.  We had time to unload (I brought home all the boxes of my stock...the faire had security but leaving 6,000 dollars-worth of artwork outdoors seems like a really stupid thing to do, even if the tent's buttoned up and the work is in plastic tubs), and them the sky started rumbling almost non-stop.  The thunder was nearly continuous.  I looked outside as it grew darker...my neighbors were all out in front of their houses too and we were all looking up.  The sky was low and (i don't know how to describe it any other way) the bottom of the storm looks all wispy and swirly...it seriously looked like a tornado wanting to happen.

So we just stood there watching (I kept saying out loud "please keep moving!") until the lightning started striking all around us.  Multiple cloud-to-ground strikes, very scary!  We ran indoors and the rain came down like a curtain.  You couldn't even see across the street.  The road flooded...it was a real mess.  It took a few hours for the booming and the rain to stop...the front stalled out right over us and it's still basically there, so we have thunderstorms forcast for every evening this week until that front comes all the way through.  In the meantime, we're in the 90's today and tomorrow and probably Wednesday too.  I'd go to the beach...but I don't dare even try with the potential for wrath-of-god storms every day.  

*sigh*  Good thing I have central air!

Comments

[lotus-faerie.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear about the sales but a little worried; there won't be any copyright issues on fanart?

It's hot and humid here, too, which probably explains why I just slept for five hours instead of working on my story. *sigh*

[merimask.livejournal.com]

Naah...I used to worry about copyright troubles but fanart is everywhere. I only sell it at small events, I don't advertise it, and I don't do anything even remotely in Rumiko Takahashi's style. PZB sells fanart at conventions, and so do a lot of artists. It's really no big deal. :-)

Hasn't the weather been weird? I can't remember any summer where the whole world has had record highs all at once. I'm really VERY worried about hurricanes this year. My sister lives in Daytona...we've already extracted a promise from her that she'll fly home if it looks like anything big is going to hit Florida.

[pzb.livejournal.com]

One of my favorite sales is to people who have no idea who the character is. XD

[merimask.livejournal.com]

:-) That's when you know you're getting it right. A fan will love fanart because...she's a fan! But random strangers who like your fanart are responding to your ART, not the character. That feels like a bigger compliment, IMO.