MyST has her first summer fest....a diary.......
Posted by MyST on May 21, 2001 at 16:35:41:
Well guys you know I always like to report in on our festivalexperiences. This year we were asked again to participate in the
Heart and Soul Festival, a festival that's a concert charity event
for kids with disabilities. Anyhow the cost for a booth is a 500.00
donation to the charity, which is fine by us. Last year we did this
festival we made quite a bit of money and had a non-stop line from
about 2pm to 9pm.
This year the weather was a little more "out of favor"...last year it
was hot and humid. On Saturday I got up at 5am, went to culinary
school from 7am-noon, worked in the storeroom from noon to around
1ish, and then headed to the concert grounds. Frank was already
there with a friend of ours, Dicky, setting up. I got there, we
chatted a bit and reorganized and the doors opened up.
The weather was nice, everyone was in shorts, sandals, tank tops and
sarongs. We changed our pattern books, took out all the designs we
had gotten sick of last festival season, and we started hennaing. We
never ended up having that 1 hour wait line, in fact we'd have a few
people at a time, but pretty much Frank and I were just trading off
as each person approached.
Another wonderful thing happened on Saturday, our digital camera had
DEAD batteries, which royally SUCKED. So we didn't take ANY pics the
whole day. We worked from 2pm-10pm...and packed it in, and barely
covered our 1/2 of the entrance fee. This was SO weird.
Anyhow Sunday rolled in, we grabbed our stuff and headed back out,
the sky dark and cloudy...and we knew there was a threat of rain. It
rained ALL DAY LONG...and you guys know it's a bit difficult to henna
people and send them out into the terrential downpour, so that didn't
work, we left around 4pm. I came home to work on my henna research
paper, and got very little accomplished.
We figured we made about a 100.00 profit, not even a profit tho,
because that money paid for our supplies and other crap. It was a
total wash.
This has never really happened to us before. There were a few factos
that contributed that I know of:
1) the weather
2) advertising for the show was on a hard rock station, not a more
hippy/indie/funk station like last year
3) there was a lack of younger girls for some reason, when last year
it was teenie bopper heaven
Oh well, I guess that's just the way live goes sometimes ;)
MyST
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- losing $ and feeling bummed
Darlahood 20:31:50 5/21/2001
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Yvonne 18:57:52 5/21/2001
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