Blogger accepted my photos! Hooray! Hillside was 2 weekends ago, and it was lots of fun. Here is our booth. You can't see it but our tent is just behind it. It was fun to stay in a relatively exclusive part of the island and chill out with the vendors. Rob and I sold lots of didges and CD's and replacement beeswax mouthpieces. Our neighbours were cool too so that was helpful. Just behind that treeline behind our booth was the main stage, so we heard almost everyone who played. We traded off a few times too so we could actually go and see what was happening. You can't see it but we were facing the food area, including the organic ice cream people. MMM. We had maple crunch, raspberry Turkish cappuccino (i.e. cardamom cappuccino) and dandelion. Over the course of the weekend, but still. Best. Ice cream. Ever.
Our neighbours were the airbrush tattoo and henna people. Two illustration/animation students from Sheridan. We became friends and when things gt slow they gave us henna tattoos. Rob liked is so much he got an estimate from our neighbour the real tattooist when we got home. (When the henna came off the tattoo was a nice brown, which is what Rob wanted). Unfortch, the tattoo was going to swell his foot up like a foot ball and cost $225, so we just decided to do our own henna instead. However, we are still trying to match the freestyle skillz our trained and skilled neighbours had! Still fun!
Rob also had 2 workshops that he ran over the course of the festival and they were both wildly popular. Both were packed to capacity and people showed up both times in some cases, even though it was the same demo/instructional thing. Yay for success!Overall, a very good weekend at our first ever Hillside.
That was definitely the short and sweet of it!
4 comments:
sounds like hard work, but a lot of fun. Glad it went so well! Also, nice display tent - do you have to bring that yourself?
They were definitely long days, but it was really cool to be part of the festicval. 4000 people came, I heard. AND Rob's picture was up the next day on CBC Radio 3's web site. Cool!
We had to bring our own shelter. Lots of people really took it alseriously and had professional canopies, but we sure didn't. It rained on Friday and we had to do some quick thinking but everything worked out great.
I was wondering what you'd been up to! The tattoos look really nice. I remember getting one at Wonderland around my belly button and loving it, except the first couple of hours when the dye was still making its way into my body.
How long does it take to make a didge?
Wow, so cool! I'm sad I missed Hillside, but the money was a big bonus for us and our basement will thank us this winter when we have somewhere to hang out and watch our episodes of 24 and Prison Break. Not to mention when we go to sell little house... ;))
But either way, I'm so happy you guys enjoyed Hillside and were able to get some real interest in his didges. Hurray for henna too.
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