Craft Show #1 - Oakland Mills

Other than a small panic attack when I discovered that show setup started at 7:30, not 8:30, and discovered this AT 7:30, (and please don't mention this to any MD State Troopers, as I exceeded the speed limit by a LOT to get there), and some serious foot pain, the day was not bad. I had a sales goal and met it, barely. Moved some prints, for a change, all Dr Who or Torchwood, interesting event at a mundane show. Top selling ornament? Cincinnati Bengals. Seriously. Not a single Redskin, Jet or Eagle, but 6 Bengals. Had a ton of help for loading in and a kid to help load out, so both were much easier than usual. Neighboring booths were good neighbors and Mom hit it off with the couple on the right. Next year, I'm bringing my MP3 player. They hooked up an organizer's Ipod to the PA for the music - except he had a whopping 12 Christmas songs on there. If I never hear 'The Chipmunk Song' again...I have about 3 days of Christmas music on ITunes (including classical) so they'd have been better off having me bring the tunes!

Then to Hunan Manor for a first rate Chinese meal, served to us about 5 minutes after we ordered it(!) New record. And all reasonably priced and very good. Went to the Columbia Michaels but they have no more ornaments. Went to the Ellicott City store, they had 15. One shattered when the cashier picked it up, so make that 14. And home by 6:30, just in time to find out we didn't really miss the Penn State/Ohio State game (we root for Penn) but should have seen Navy/Notre Dame. Go Navy! Oh, and Zenyatta is indeed impressive. Too bad we'll never know what might have happened if she matched up with Rachel Alexandra. Clearly the boys are no match for either of them.