Craft Fairs
 

Did anyones parents drag you off to crappy arts and crafts fairs when you were kids? Those things sucked.

Yes. Why, yes they did.

*shudder* so much weaving, so much wicker...and the sewing, oh god the sewing! Make it stop! Soooo boring!!

Well not a crafts fair so much as an art fair... those were't too bad.

All the different photos were great, and the majority of the art was neato-frito. Course it was annoying since my mom would always take so long to go through any stand.

I finally went to a small but cool craft fair a few months back. It was put on by this local medieval nutbar group here in town (can't remember the name) and they were selling practice swords, chain mail and medieval-style jewelry and stuff. They even taught you how to make your own chain mail.

But they wouldn't let me make my own sword. Probably just as well, as I would've made a scale replica of Sephiroth's Masamune.

Not sure how I would've got it home, mind you.

We used to have several craft fairs every summer when I lived in NH. They'd gather from all around, block up Main Street, and sell the most worthless crap. Stuff like lighthouses painted on pieces of driftwood, lighthouses painted on rocks, lighthouses painted on chipmunks. The only good thing about them was the food, lighthouses painted on my cheeseburger.

I really like all that stuff.
 

My mother in law calls it "farts and craps." But I dig arts and crafts shows. Down where I live they'll sell cool things like sterling silver jewelry, home-grown dried herbs, bullwhips, homemade soap, smoking accessories, incense--useful stuff, y'know.

-Mags

If anyone's seen the opening skit from the second episode of Mr. Show, you have a fair idea of what the crafts fairs were like where I lived.

"Lookit this David: I got a naked wooden puppet doing a lewd, lascivisous fandango on the lap of a fully grown man. There's a woman dipping candles, fella over there with a butter churn- it's like a pioneer porn shop up in here! Close it up boys, no more art!"

They had fairs like that in Sarasota (south florida), we called them medieval fairs though. I was pretty fun to watch guys in full plate armor beat eachother with swords. I suppose there were crafts involved, but I mostly watched the cool stuff.

The one I went to didn't have guys in full plate beating the crap out of each other. They were just selling stuff. It was weird, but cool. In 8 years, I should've finished my chain mail hat (time consuming).