Faire Setup

I've been back for a couple days now, but sleeping or working every minute. I leave again on the 5th to go sell at the faire for 7 weeks. Today I finally woke up early enough to post this blog entry.

It's a little photo essay of building the booth. It took 3 days with two people, and it looks great!

Annie got a few surprises this year. The new booth space means that we have shade. Yay! It also means that we had to build a 32' view block wall, 8' high. In order to maintain the illusion of Renaissance immersion, it's important that visitors can't see the backstage areas.

We got it all done, and from the looks of other construction there, ours is pretty easy.

Now I'm home and working hard to get everything done before a two-month trip to work the faire. Wheeeee!

[The bare booth site]

[Booth and tent in the van]

[One pole is multiply braced]

[End of day 1: tent up plywood painted]

[Building a 32' view block]

[Day 2: view block done!]

[Broom booth done]

[Day 3: all built and secured to sit 'til the show opens]