48th Annual Art Fiesta, New Smyrna Beach FL

Ok so this was the 48^th Annual you would think with 48 years under their belt the artist info packet would be a little more complete. In the acceptance letter
there weren't any directions to the show, show hours, hotel
information or even a physical address to look up online to get
directions. So I had to search the internet for the address to the
show which wasn't easy, found it and went to rand mcnally got the
directions. Which were wrong by the way, thank goodness a friend of
mine got there first and by phone she gave me step by step turns to
get to the show. We set up on friday, had to dolly a little way I
was in the park on grass, thank you very much. As usual I just set
up my tent curtains and display, didn't need the mad mat because I
was in grass, yeah!! Oh and I didn't need the heavy weights because
again I was on grass. Since it was bike week in daytona most of the
hotels raised their rates but we found a nice little family owned one
that gave Ellen and I good rate. Very clean and didn't have that old
hotel smell. When we went to bed the weather didn't look good for
Saturday but didn't look too bad either. That of course changed by
the time we got up. The day looked really bad but being hardy art
show exhibitors we went to the show anyway and finished setting up
our booths. And it didn't get bad till about 10am and then it was
just miserable. So cold, and wet just awful. My hands were so cold
that I had 2 sets of gloves on, but my feet just got numb after
awhile. We finally called it quits around 1pm. I had one sale in
the morning a giraffe and that was it. A lot of my neighbors were
already gone at this point so we also closed shop. Went to a friend's
house for most of the day and then out to eat. There are a lot of
nice local restaurants. While we were at the house the sun came out
and another crafter that we know went to the show site to see if it
had reopened but he reported back that all the booths were closed and
no one was there. So after dinner we just wasted time driving along
the beach road and site seeing. Sunday proved to be a much better
day, but the drated weather man said it was going to be windy,
considered getting the very heavy weights out of my van and putting
them up but was too lazy to do it. It was sunny all day long and I
thought not windy at all, but apparently it was very windy out on the
streets but not in the park on the grass, again thank you very much.
A tent tried to fly away with the wind, but of course it was an e-z
up with not one weight. So the people did come out on sunday and I
had a decent day, not great mind you but ok. I inched slowly all day
towards the black and finally made it. Also made a profit not a huge
but something I could live with. If we hadn't lost saturday the show
would've been ok. Not great but ok. Not sure yet if I'll go back
next year but I haven't cross it off my list. Break down went very
smoothly, got my booth and stock broke down then pulled the van up to
the sidewalk closest to my booth and dollied everything out to the
van. Some people drove their vehicles into the park but I didn't
feel comfortable doing that and it was just a short distance that I
had to dolly. All in all it was an experience, the bikers were
noisey going up and down the street late at night, but thanks to ear
plugs from wally world they didn't bother me too much. If you don't
have to travel a great distance this might be an ok show to do. I'm
only about 2 hrs away from there, 1 tank of gas with some to spare,
and I shared the expenses with a friend so the black wasn't too far
away for me. Ok that's it for this review, see you at the
shows---greta