Kaleido Family Arts Festival!

The weekend went pretty good!! We were set up at the festival and we had set up a small display in Bedouin Beats not too far away from our booth set up. Bedouin Beats has a clothing/jewelry/cd etc store up front with a complete dance studio in the back offering a variety of different dances such as flamenco and tribal fusion. I helped my sister pay for a class in Tribal Fusion so she could try it out and maybe we could do some sort of mixed photo shoot with her and some of the dance moves with jewelry, accessories and even a couple of masks in the future.


At the festival we met some pretty good artists, talked to some long term customers stopping to say hi and fellow metal workers stopping by for a quick visit. Another great neat experience was having so many people who either got items for gifts from us or bought items for gifts come up to us and tell us how much either they or the receivers loved the item! One of the best parts of the show is the cost of the booth for the traffic I got!! It is so nice to pay only $45 artist fee to set up over the high festival, craft and trade show fees! These type of inexpensive festivals can really help with buying supplies I wouldn’t normally buy so I can experiment on new types of projects.

Tanner’s latest large mask was finished in time for the event and sold also immediately! Sadly we never ended up taking a very good picture of it! Here is the finished mask which can be worn and hung on a wall for decoration. The mask was sold to one of the dancers from Bedouin Beats who bought it for her son as a Christmas gift. Below is the finished product.

I also finished some more rings!! A very long process! I included some pictures of the rings when they came out of the tumbler, when they were oxidized and then a couple of the finished products. Also below is another picture of a new wire wrap with a leather background.

I am starting serious preparations of my Christmas products asap. There will be a lot of wall art, icons and other unique décor for the hard to buy person. My father is helping me with part of the production of some of the simple wood backings to the wall art, as I don’t know very much about wood working tools, finishing and the woods themselves. I will probably post a couple of pictures of the production in the next couple of weeks. Next year I will start a little earlier and hopefully commission my older brother who is a skilled carpenter to help me with one of a kind mixed wood and metal jewelry boxes and 3-d wall art.