1950's "Do"....a self portrait.
I feel a little like I just got off the roller coaster I’ve been riding for months. No, I probubly won’t throw up on my keyboard, but, I will enjoy the peace of being still…even just for a few moments.
The Festival of Crafts ran from November 26-29 (Thursday to Sunday). Thursday and Friday were MARATHON days that went from 10am untill 9:30pm, Saturday 10am-6pm and Sunday 10am-5pm. I bravely wore a smile the entire time, and a hairdo from the 50’s (one of which is pictured here) !! Don’t get me wrong I am not wonderwoman (although my husband would love my outfit)…I had help. And it (the help) came in the form of beautiful, savvy, charming, supportive friends and family…Name names you say?? I’d be happy to.
Aaron Coulombe (my love lovely who had to sleep next to me while I wore curlers to bed on his birthday), Mugsie Martyn (Grandma extraordinaire), Melissa Ross (sista from the same mista), Candice Davis (super focused/driving force/sales bulldog), Rachel Peach (the peachiest neighbour/sales woman), Ange Vriend (Friend/apron wearing preschool teacher/sales woman), Julie De boer (friend/would look good in a paper sac but instead modeled my aprons/sales woman). Oh and I mustn’t forget the two wonderful little girls who modeled Candy Apple Aprons all around the festival, Amelia and Natalie Coulombe (you make mommy so proud). Of course I’m also grateful to all the fine folks who came out to the Festival and picked up a Candy Apple Apron.
The whole “show” experience was fairly complex from, the detailed application to the contractual floor coverings and liability insurance, to the questions like, “how many aprons will I actually sell?” or “which shade of red lipstick should I wear?”. I am a detail oriented person so before the festival I set up a mock booth in my livingroom with tape on the floor measured out to a 6 x 10 rectangle. I made sure all the furniture would fit and that there was enough room to “shop” around the garment rack ect. but what I didn’t account for was spending so much time inside it, perched on my 1950’s kitchen stool and how difficult it would be to peel 2 sided carpet tape off the stinkin’ concrete floor. All these things added to an awesome learning experience and a real bonding experience with the fair ladies who spent hours upon hours with me in that little 6 x 10 time machine.
We decorated ” country 50’s”, berries and washboards, vintage irons, embroidered sugar sack tea towels and 1947 cash register. We had a lot of ladies stop in the aisle and stare at the tea towels and you could see, there was a story coming… Then they’d begin to tell you about how they remembered their Grandma teaching them to embroider, or they themselves had that very set of holly hobby tea towels from the box of Sunlight detergent. I loved all the stories about Grandmas who never were seen without an apron, and you could tell every stary gaze taking a trip down memory lane was a pleasant one that we brought on, just bringing back something old, something vintage that hasn’t been revisited in 50-60 years. A good comfortable functional apron.
One comment I heard more often than all the others was, ” aprons were sure made better back then”. And that’s why Candy Apple is happy to keep making aprons.
Now, to order more fabric for the spring show…. Coming soon 
Ok, I’m not sure if bloging should have two g’s?? Anyway I’m a horrible speller (I don’ t even think speller is a word, because spell check won’t correct it), thank goodness for spell check. Which luckily this thing has(even though I tend to ignore it) . My sister seems to think my horrible spelling makes me seem apathetic to those who deserve to read things spelt properly. Maybe I am guilty of apathy… It could be worse, I could sing show tunes at the top of my lungs while doing the dishes, oh wait, I do that too……..
