Clovis Big Hat Days Festival - April 4-5

Big Hat Days in Clovis will be held on April 4-5. For an application, click here

Booth spaces are expensive, running around $435 for commercial and A&C. About two hundred dollars too high for me. Include gas and motel prices...ouch. However, they do get one heck of a lot of vendors for this show and also a huge crowd. Here is my review of last year's event: Too
Weather was great. Big crowds, they came out for this one. Show is over-priced for vendors. A lot of people did Manteca's Street Faire, but I would stay away from that one. They added more booths (again) this year in Clovis. We were located all the way at the end of Section J here in Clovis, but that wasn't too bad.

Click here to read the remainder of this review.

Cupertino Cherry Blossom Festival - April 25-26

The city of Cupertino will be hosting it's annual Cherry Blossom Festival on April 25-26 at Memorial Park. This event draws large crowds and is promoted by Festival Productions and you can go to their website for an application (vendors).

We participated in the event last year and here is my review.

Great weather. However, there were noticably fewer attendee's than previous years. Entertainment was okay and the people came to hear and see them play the large drums, which is one of the highlights of this event.

Majority of the food booths was volunteers and served up various Japanese foods, in line with the theme of the festival. However, there was a smoothie booth there and their drinks were sensational. I had a pina colada smoothie and I wish I would have brought a small bottle of rum with me. Very refreshing. I've seen quite a number of refreshment booths and this one is excellent.

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Patterson Apricot Fiesta - May 30-31, 2009

The 2009 Patterson Apricot Fiesta will be held on May 30-31, 2009. click here for application

Here is our review of the 2008 event:

Very nice weather this time with temps in the low 80's and a very pleasant breeze. It is usually much hotter this time of year. We have had temps in the 100's most of the year's we did the event. Decent crowds on Saturday; substantially lower on Sunday. Many vendors did pretty decent on Saturday and darn lousy on Sunday. The Chamber of Commerce needs to listen to the vendors. They moved a huge number of vendors to an adjacent street and sales were down for all of them and it was difficult for our returning customers.

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Ceres Street Fair - Ceres, CA May 3-4, 2009

The Ceres Street Fair is coming up on May 2-3, 2009. Ceres Chamber of Commerce Contact them if you are interested in being a vendor.

Read our review of last year's event:

This is a small-town street fair that draws good-sized crowds from surrounding towns. Perhaps in the 30-40,000 range. I really praise the promoters of this event. This is a very smooth-running event which is always enjoyable to do. It was a little warm over the weekend and somewhat breezy at times. However, over the years, we have had temps up around 100 and super-hot; have had rain and even a Sunday completely rained out a couple years ago.

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Up Against Wal-Mart

At the world's largest and most profitable retailer, low wages, unpaid overtime, and union busting are a way of life. Now Wal-Mart workers are fighting back

I ran across this website which tells a lot about life at a Wal-Mart and is several years old. However, I find it very interesting and it gives a lot of insight into the many problems this retailer giant causes. I am sure that very little has changed there over the years. Shoppers just look the other way, knowing very well that the workers are not unionized, payed low wages and have few benefits, if any. Many comments by workers, etc. You know, I cringe whenever I see a new Wal-mart going up because it affects smaller businesses that can not compete and have to close as a result and people lose their jobs. I know that it's very hard not to shop at Wal-Mart because they undercut any competition, but gosh, people actually lose their jobs because of them. I know that this nation has bigger problems with major corporations going under. banks closing, losing investments, etc. and maybe people are just glad to have a job. I guess it's like a double-edged sword?

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2003/03/against-wal-mart

Casinos warned: An iPhone application created to count cards

Casinos warned: An iPhone app created to count cards

LAS VEGAS — Nevada gambling regulators have warned casinos about a card-counting program for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch that can illegally help players beat the house in blackjack

Next time you want to hit the blackjack tables in Vegas you may want to check your iPhone is off and out of site before some burly bouncer throws you out on the Strip, or worse confiscates your trendy $300 Smartphone. Turns out the gig is up for those that used a special program that illegally worked out how to count cards.

Counting-cards, a technique used to predict the value of the card using probabilities, is not illegal in Nevada when using the old gray matter between your ears, however using a program, or any device used to record the cards or predict the value of the next card is. click here to read story

Starving Vendors website

Enjoy reading PAGE ONE stories on Starving Vendors. Popular website has reviews of events we have done the past couple years and you will find some of them hilarillous and all true to the point.

Read such articles as:
James Bond phone-watch to hit UK this year...... Pair arrested for eating iguana on Facebook...
Woman breaks world's longest fingernails in car crash...... Michael Jackson Suffering From Flesh-Eating Disease?.... and a lot more.

Many other interesting features. You'll love it. Check out Your Daily Dose, a daily journal of information and events.

Chabot College Flea Market - Hayward

We (DandL CREATIONS) shall be at the Chabot College Flea Market in Hayward this coming Saturday, Feb 21 and located in Space B367-368. If there is significant rainfall, we will not be there. Come on down and get yourself one of our popular shoulder bags or one of Lucy's new shell creations. How about a hand-made shell necklace?

How about looking at our Ebay Auctions?

Blues Festival listings in Starving Vendors

I am in the process of constructing some new pages to draw more interest to this website and to inform others of a variety of entertainment choices. Debuting now is the 'Blues Festival' section which describes a number of Blues Festivals in California and will add other states as time goes on. I shall be adding shows to this listing frequently. This should increase our website readership by about 10-15 percent. This section is mainly for the public and will probably not include many shows that vendors can participate in, but I will designate this accordingly. The 'Beer Festivals' (US and World-wide) which will come out in a couple weeks will increase readership another 20 percent and my goal is to get readership to reach 10,000 per month by the end of April.

Quality of COSTCO Caravan Canopies.

If you do a google search of COSTCO Canopies, you will see my comments about problems I encountered when I bought another canopy to replace one of my other broken canopies. We can all agree that these are cheaply made, but inexpensive, nonetheless. The old addage holds true: You get what you paid for. Still holding up after 12 days in Tyson Wells. However, the top of the canopy WAS INDEED SAGGING in a couple spots after a heavy rain and I could see tiny droplets of water seeping actually seeping through the top. Sad. Proven: COSTCO CARAVAN (Aluma) CANOPIES SUCK.

I guess that some of the better quality canopies are of 450, 500 or 600 denier. I think that this COSTCO CARAVAN ALUMA model must be 250.

Looking for Consignment deals

Hi store owners, etc. I am looking for locations in the S.F. Bay Area/Central Coast, etc. to selll our shell products on consignment. Contact me at dstefa4621@aol.com if you are interested.

Here are some of the products we wish to sell that are located on our website
DandL CREATIONS and are hand-made by my wife. Picture frames, flower vases, etc. Thank you...dave

Newest Navy Ship - USS BARACK OBAMA

NEWEST NAVY SHIP USS BARACK OBAMA.

This is what the increase in taxes on small business support! These new sailors are filling all the new government jobs promised by the Democrats

This high tech vessel was christened by Rev. Wright The USS Sharpton is currently under construction in Kenya while the USS Pelosi is being built from recycled Corona cans in Mexico

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