Harvest Days - Vacaville

This is a very lousy event. So many problems. Just received an application for the Harvest Day's Festival in Vacaville at the Nut Tree. Dates: Oct 18-19, 25-26. Please read what I have written about this event in the past.

http://www.starvingvendors.com/do_you_remember.html 'Vacaville Harvest Days' on right.

http://thisaintparadise.blogspot.com/search/label/vacaville%20harvest%20days read previous entry made earlier on this blog regarding this event.

I can't believe they are having the Harvest Days Festival again. I did two weekends last year there in Vacaville and it was terrible. On the first weekend, we were located in an area in front of the Nut Tree. About a dozen vendors there. Very poor traffic flow, as people headed into the Nut Tree and the amusement area, not even paying attention to us. Very very poor sales and strong winds, which blew over our canopy at night. Everybody had to pack up at night because it was unsafe.

For the second weekend at Harvest Days, we were located near the Pumpkin Patch in the back and traffic flow was even worse. We packed up and left after the first day, as did a number of other vendors. Virtually nobody buying anything. The kids went over to the pumpkin patch with their parents, grabbed their pumpkins and got the heck out. Absolutely terrible show. Had to walk about half-a-mile to go to the bathroom. The promoters claimed that the city wouldn't allow porta potties. Bull Marlarky.

They force you to pay $25 for a 'police permit' which means that you have to submit your driver's license number, SSN, etc., to them and the police run a check on you like you are some kind of a criminal.

People, this is a terrible show. Stay away from Vacaville's Harvest Days. You are not going to make any money here and there are just so many problems which will drive you crazy.

Sand Sculpture

These people do some magnificent things with their sand sculpting. I guess they were at the Pacific Coast Fog Festival this past weekend. They won many awards for their work. If you like creating things in the sand, you'll be interested in looking at some of their work, which is included on their website:

http://www.sandscapes.com/

Be sure to check out their gallery. Truly amazing. They have done work all over the country at many fairs & festivals.

Pacific Coast Fog Fest - Pacifica, CA

Anybody have anything to comment about regarding the Pacific Coast Fog Festival held this past weekend in Pacifica? One of the committee members (Fred Howard (the duck) and his bored of Directors) wouldn't allow us in the past several years because he said that he is not allowing 'commercial' vendors. Helloooo...sunglasses is arts & crafts? When I spoke to him awhile back, he apparently wasn't too sure about what the differences were between A&C and commercial. Unable to tell them apart.

Tell me what you thought about the event. I heard that sales for a lot of the vendors was down.....just like other events.

If you were a vendor, tell me if you saw very many commercial vendors and how you compare sales this year to other years.

Here's something I wrote several years ago and updated. I had built up quite a base of customers there before he got a bug up......

http://www.dandlcreations.com/PacificCoastFogfest.htm

Credit Score Myths Debunked

Learn a little about credit scores and common fallicies. I found this article and put it in our Starving Vendors website. Interesting.

http://www.starvingvendors.com/credit_score_myths.html

What did the House of Rep do today in Washington?

I really thought that these people were working on our economy.

Here is what your HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IS DOING TODAY.

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=3611472

The first black heavyweight champion should be granted a presidential pardon for a racially motivated conviction 75 years ago that blemished his reputation and hurt his boxing career, the House of Representatives recommended Friday.

So, I guess this is probably more important.

Clovisfest - Sep 20-21

What was Clovisfest like last weekend? Been doing the show for several years, but had to cut expenses and travel. Any vendors out there that can tell me how the event was? Or if you visited the festival, how was it? I don't think that a lot of vendors were traveling very far for this one.

Serious Stuff

Watched the news last night about how they want to try to 'fix the economy'

I hate to say this, but I think we are in deep shit and they are trying their best to avoid a run on the banks and the Stock Market. They said that it would take the economy about a year and a half to turn around. For some reason, these people try to avoid using the term 'recession.'

There seems to be a sense of urgency in trying to get these bills passed through Congress and I am most certain that Bama Obama Bama Bama Bama Obaaaaammmaa.... is going to take advantate of all of this. McCain is right in stepping away from his campaign and turning to the issues at hand.

I hope that Friday, September 26 does not turn into another BLACK FRIDAY when the stock market crashes 1000 points and more banks and lending institutions go belly up. Just watching Bush's and McCain's faces can tell us that we are just a couple chess moves away from another depression.

Joseph Biden's - Words of Wisdom

Vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says today's leaders should take a lesson from the history books and follow fellow Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt's response to a financial crisis.
"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened,"' Barack Obama's running mate recently told the "CBS Evening News."

Except, Republican Herbert Hoover was in office when the stock market crashed in October 1929. There also was no television at the time; TV wasn't introduced to the public until a decade later, at the 1939 World's Fair.

I HOPE THAT YOU HAVE MORE BRAINS THAN THESE TWO WHEN YOU GO OUT TO VOTE. PLEASE VOTE REPUBLICAN!!!!!!

Show listings, events, etc.

Here's this weeks' listing of Bay Area events, festivals, etc. These listings are pretty much for the general public.

Sat/Sun Sep 27-28 Lathrop Days, Lathrop, CA
Looks like probably a nice event for the locals. However, they are still soliciting for vendors and we all know what that means. Perhaps one of the problems is that they have the wrong website listing in Craftmaster's.
http://www.lathropdays.net/

Fri/Sat/Sun Sep 26-28 Arts & Crafts Sidewalk Street Fair, Walnut Creek, CA
Link to Website

Sat/Sun Sep 27-28, Octoberfest, Clayton, CA
http://www.claytonoktoberfest.com/

Sat/Sun Sep 27-28 Folsom Gourd & Arts Festival, Folsom, CA
http://www.folsomgourdfestival.com/

Sat/Sun Sep 27-28 Pacific Coast Fog Festival, Pacifica, CA

Sat/Sun Sep 27-28 Taste of Morgan Hill, Morgan Hill, CA
http://www.morganhill.org/

Portland Christmas Bazaar

Okay People....let's pull out your most recent issue of Craftmaster News and turn to the page that has the 1/4 page ad with 'America's Largest Chrismas Bazaar'.....find it yet?.............. look at the line located in the middle of the page...the one that reads '1,000 booths of unique gifts,' Ya know...I don't know what kind of a crowd these people get for this, but why on earth are you going to point it out to vendors that there are 1,000 booths? I look at that and I get scared shitless and feel sorry for about 980 of these vendors because they are going to have a hard time catching expenses. You would feel that way also if you responded to the ad they had in there a number of years ago for their Sacramento 'Bazaar' which we unfortunately did. Only one weekend, thank gosh. i never ever ever sign up for more than one weekend of any event, espectially when I don't know a thing about it. Anyhow, I think that they meant 1,000 customers because that's about what we got for that event. Of course, that show in Sacto has been discontinued, kapoot, etc.

Newark Days

Okay people.... how many people are we missing in Newark this iime? I was driving down 880 in Fremont yesterday morning around 9:30 and it began to rain, just for a minute or two. Don't know if they got anything in Newark. That was probably around the time they were having their parade.

Show listings, events, etc.

I have been entering information on a lot of shows that we have done over the years and I think that you (vendors) would be interested in reading this.

First of all, Do you remember was created a little while back and lists a number of events that are no longer around. Old shows are ones that we no longer do..... and Problem Shows are events we have done that do have a number of problems. You can find listings and reviews of a large number of events in other sections in this website. All these sections will make enjoyable reading and maybe you'll find them quite informative. I have provided links to the promoters of the events. I'm sure that you have never heard of a lot of these shows and I provide insight to a number of current shows. Take a browse!!