Sitting back and listening..

Yup that's me hiding behind our sign..

 

This is at the Blair County Arts Festival..

 

 

As the people starting to show up, we sat there a bit nerves not really knowing what to expect. People started walking by and they started stopping and looking around at everything naming the bits and pieces we have used to make our creations and what they were.. It was wonderful to hear that what we have spent months on people where understanding what we seen as well... Little kids stopped and loved all the color, other artist stopped by and love the uniqueness of our pieces. There were many people that stopped and said we had the most creative pieces in the festival.. They all seen what we did that a pile of junk that someone could just throw away could also be turned into some interesting.

 

To tell you the truth this was the first time since we moved to Altoona that we actually were part of  the local people.. ( I know that sounds pretty sad and if I told you how long we lived here it would even sound worse) We met a lot of great people from around here.. We met a local jewelry maker that has some of the most unique pieces I have seen. A guy that was walking around and playing a banjo, he actually stopped and played a few songs in our booth with us. A few people that just loved our work that lived in the area. We seen Pauly Shore (not really) from Son in Law. Heck I even seen a lady with a parrot on her shoulder walking around. It was a wonderful experience to say the least. By the end of the festival we felt relived that our hard work paid off and motivated us to keep working hard to create new and exciting pieces.

 

 

I guess we had a late start with only four months to create our work without much material or money.  We wanted to be in several festivals but with out a history of our work and many festivals were already full.   We took off to the local flea market, were we do a lot of our shopping for material. Thanks to many shoppers at the flea market who enjoyed our work and looking at how we took rusty and unwanted metal into unique pieces of art we were able to make what was looking like a slow year into a rather successfully first year.

The flea market brought a lot of special request which was something new and exciting for us...

Look for Fridays post for some of the requested creations.