“I am not here to buy anything,” I told myself sternly. “This is all about talking to artists, OK?” With that resolution in mind, and microphone in hand, I entered the Summer 2012 Renegade Craft Fair in Los Angeles State Historic Park, last July.
Well…um…
Three hours and two pairs of earrings, two cakes of scented soap, a wooden card that’s perfect for my husband and a Renegade Craft Fair T-Shirt later, I accepted that my steely resolve needs work! (At least, where unique handmade crafts are concerned. How come I didn’t buy a partridge in a pear tree? No one seemed to have made one, in July!)
That may not be an issue as the Renegade Craft Fair opens its Holiday Show this weekend in Los Angeles, and next weekend in San Francisco. And if you find yourself going overboard on all those independent creative entrepreneurs’ wood/pewter/silver necklaces, handpainted pottery, fabric arts and all kinds of other “goodies”–take heart. Your dilemma’s best summed up by a comment from Sarah Spies, Director of Media and Vendor Relations, as I voiced my determination not to purchase anything else:
“Good luck!”
The Renegade Craft Fair runs from 10 am to 5 pm, Saturday and Sunday, December 8th and 9th, in Los Angeles State Historic Park, and from 11 am to 6 pm, Saturday and Sunday, December 15th and 16th, at the Concourse Exhibition Center in San Francisco.