I’m back!
Betcha thought I was never coming back, huh? Well, I did come back and first thing’s first – where the heck have I been, young lady? (I know that’s what you’re thinking.)
Two words: Ueda Joint. I have been talking about this music festival since just after the birth of my blog. About three weeks ago we really hit crunch-time for production and the blogging fell to the very bottom of the priority list. Mr. Kaizer was cutting and ironing all day while I was in the office, and when I got home at 7 pm or later I would stay up until 1-2 am stitching my little heart out, only to wake up again at 5 am the next morning. This continued for two weeks. The coffee machine and I were the best of friends.
Despite all this effort, we fell short of our production goals (admittedly, they were quite lofty), but we still had more than enough product in inventory. How did it go, you ask? Well, let me just say this: hippies with limited fiscal resources make delightful friends. They make terrible paying customers.
All the people were extremely friendly and we had more than one person comment on the quality of our handmade items. Huge stroke to the ego on that one. But ya know what popped it like a bubble? Losing money on the endeavor overall. But as Mr. Kaizer and I like to say, it was a learning experience and those are invaluable. (Lather, rinse, repeat. I lost track of the number of times I had to say it until I started to feel better.)
The festival itself (held July 31 – August 2), according to the other vendors we spoke with, didn’t have nearly the attendance it had last year. Nor was the weather particularly cooperative. It bucketed down rain Friday and Saturday afternoon. Sunday was a pretty constant intermittent drizzle. We actually lost a bit of inventory to the unexpected downpour on Friday. By the end of the day Saturday we pretty much expected that everything we owned would have at least a bit of mud on it.
All in all, it was a positive weekend, even if it didn’t feel that way at the time. But once I finish scraping mud off of everything, I plan to start listing items in my Etsy shop. And now that the festival has passed, I should have enough time to blog more regularly again – tomorrow I will be sharing with you our Sunday Ueda Joint experience. See? Every cloud does have a silver lining!
Tags: Travel, ueda joint
Tidbits | Miss Kaizer | 
August 10, 2009 7:10 am
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