The renegade who had it made*

So despite my efforts to get out-of-townies to come visit and join me in the joy that is the Renegade Craft Fair, I still had a great time. All told, I met up with quite a large group of "stone cold crafters" (This is the slogan I came up with yesterday after seeing so many different ones blazoned on shirts and pins and bags galore. And while we're in the parentheses, I'll add that the pins I bought are missing from the picture of my loot cause they're gifts and sometimes that element of surprise is nice. Don't know if you can tell from the picture, but that's fuzzy polkadot fabrics in greens and blues, cotton mulitcolor polkadots, "What's My Sign?" and women in kimonos. Love.)

It was really fun to hang out in such a large group and spend more time with these lovely ladies.

Met with Carrie for brunch at Bliss. Sandra called us and we met up and stopped by Dear Birthday. Sandra bought a great shirt from them, and I marched right up to the bonnets and tried some on. Liked them all, but decided on the green. Might add some trim to perk it up, but we'll see. It's definitely my "fad classic," my color-of-the-moment.

At the gate at one, joined up with everyone else (except Megan, who came later). A large posse, we split up and came back together throughout the day.


Here's Megan with some bobby pins.

Veronique at reprodepot

Veronique and Stephanie (also getting in on the reprodepot action)

Carrie and Sandra

Lisa, Kaitlyn with baby MJ, and Katie

Nancy, Marie and E

Jessica, posing with a cabbage (purchased from My Paper Crane) like we saw in her Japanese style magazine.

I love Heidy and was so happy to see her again, and of course I wanted to buy something from her. Wanted one of her plush tree stumps, but all of them were very sad. But she agreed to make me a happy stump. Hooray!

checking out the loot

exhausted

Didn't get a picture of Virginia and hardly saw her at all, but she was there. Hope to see more of you next time!

Then a bunch of us moved on to lunch at Surf Bar. Got a spinach and strawberry salad and a corona. Nice. And drank tons of water cause I was a little dehydrated and much beat.

Time to kill before AA met me for dinner and still much time for fun to be had, headed back to the fair with Veronique, Jessica, and Nancy. Really, I was just joining them. Out for a walk, really. But oops, I bought another shirt. Did not intend to do that. But it might be my favorite purchase of the day. Well, second to my bonnet! And it's yellow and GREEN.

Almost immediately after Nancy left me for the subway, AA arrived, so we went to The Read (cafe/bookshop) since I had no energy to explore the waterfront development (our earlier plan). I kept saying how I felt like "the day after" and the day after looks a little like this:


Though today really is the day after. Slept late and feeling so fine.

*The jig is up, the news is out
they finally found me
The renegade who had it made
retrieved for a bounty... --Styx