Here's Rita working with some early Saturday morning customers. We haven't appeared in a show on the East coast since the early 1990's so we weren't sure how what we are making these days would be received by the show visitors. Happily, the long trip proved worthwhile with many people liking and buying our work. For some reason, people at this event were especially drawn to our feathery soft Tibetan Lamb scarves. They are a perennial favorite everywhere we go, but in Northampton we found homes for a record number of them. Warm shearling coats were very much in demand as well.
The show was held on Columbus Day Weekend and Northampton was packed with people from New York and Boston enjoying the peak fall foliage as well as this terrific show. The Paradise City shows were developed after we moved to Idaho so we had never participated in any of them. Even though the tough economy has reduced sales by exhibitors at arts and crafts shows, Paradise City's excellent marketing efforts certainly brought out the public, whether they were coming to buy or just enjoy looking at all the high quality offerings. We felt this show had the over all highest quality of exhibits and wares of any show we have been at in many years.
Finding a not too crowded place to eat dinner after the show each night was something of a challenge, but Northampton had dozens of eateries, so we just looked for the shortest wait times. A highlight was the discovery of an incredibly reasonably priced bakery that had delicious deserts for us chocoholics. And, we saw our first ever piano playing busker playing an upright piano on a sidewalk under a streetlight.
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