You know what they say about the word "Assume"...
...it makes as 'Ass' out of 'u' and 'me'...
I had decided early this year to focus what few art shows I'd vend at to venues in the western NC mountains as opposed to the Charlotte/Piedmont region. I usually sign up for only 2-4 shows as I am limited in how quickly I can produce new stock, which last winter was quite slow, indeed.
Maggie Valley is quite the small but touristy destination west of Asheville, just short of Cherokee. The Chamber of Commerce puts on a July as well as Labor Day arts and crafts show at the Festival Grounds, there. Seemed like the choice to make.
Only they didn't.
Choose me.
Yep, first ever 'rejection' letter that simply stated it had nothing to do with my flutes, only that they already had enough flute vendors, and they needed to limit types of crafts. Took me a minute to pick my jaw up off the floor...
I vended at Bele Cher in Asheville last summer, a 3-day show whose size and scope dwarfs the Maggie venue. I was the only flutemaker there. I took part in the long-running Church Street Festival in nearby Waynesville last October...and the only flutemaker there.
And now the Maggie Valley Chamber tells me they already had enough flutemakers. And it's not open for discussion. This I just gotta see.
Unfortunately, it was one of the later submission deadlines, and I can find nothing else still 'open' to consider for this summer. If anybody knows of a good lead, let me know! Guess I'd better get the new website up ASAP and reorient my compass lickety-split...
That's really all the news from my Lake Wobegon at the moment...kinda consumes your mental energy when you get blindsided like that. Happy Summer to y'all, now that it came in officially Sunday. Mercy just got her long-overdue summer cut and none too soon! Kinda like this portrait of her, too...
WOOF!
...it makes as 'Ass' out of 'u' and 'me'...
I had decided early this year to focus what few art shows I'd vend at to venues in the western NC mountains as opposed to the Charlotte/Piedmont region. I usually sign up for only 2-4 shows as I am limited in how quickly I can produce new stock, which last winter was quite slow, indeed.
Maggie Valley is quite the small but touristy destination west of Asheville, just short of Cherokee. The Chamber of Commerce puts on a July as well as Labor Day arts and crafts show at the Festival Grounds, there. Seemed like the choice to make.
Only they didn't.
Choose me.
Yep, first ever 'rejection' letter that simply stated it had nothing to do with my flutes, only that they already had enough flute vendors, and they needed to limit types of crafts. Took me a minute to pick my jaw up off the floor...
I vended at Bele Cher in Asheville last summer, a 3-day show whose size and scope dwarfs the Maggie venue. I was the only flutemaker there. I took part in the long-running Church Street Festival in nearby Waynesville last October...and the only flutemaker there.
And now the Maggie Valley Chamber tells me they already had enough flutemakers. And it's not open for discussion. This I just gotta see.
Unfortunately, it was one of the later submission deadlines, and I can find nothing else still 'open' to consider for this summer. If anybody knows of a good lead, let me know! Guess I'd better get the new website up ASAP and reorient my compass lickety-split...
That's really all the news from my Lake Wobegon at the moment...kinda consumes your mental energy when you get blindsided like that. Happy Summer to y'all, now that it came in officially Sunday. Mercy just got her long-overdue summer cut and none too soon! Kinda like this portrait of her, too...
WOOF!
2 comments:
What a SWEETHEART! Love that tail!
When she's at her fluffiest, when I knight her The Black Yak, her coat gets almost as fluffy as that tail! She's much more comfy with the summer heat moving in!
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