Great Show At Tahoe City, California

Hi All, What a great place for an Arts and Crafts Show. We were right on the water in Tahoe City which is on the north shore of Lake Tahoe. This was supposed to be one of our Homewood shows, but it had to be moved at the last minute. The new owner of Homewood couldn't see himself having a successful paying event. So at the last minute our promoter found out Homewood was a no-go. The people of Tahoe City found this out and grabbed on to us. They've wanted and arts and craft show of their own for 20 years ... since they had their last one. Our promoter is known to be one of the best in country, so Tahoe City got the best of both worlds.

They rewarded us (Sue and I) by giving us our best show this year ... gross sales wise. Sunday set a new sales record high for one day in the history of Dust'n Lint. THANK YOU TAHOE CITY!

That's our booth straight ahead with lake in the background.

This another view of our booth.

And again with Lake Tahoe in the background.

Here's a glass artist with the little harbor in the background.

Looking up the hill towards our booth.

We were at the Boatworks Mall. Looking down at the show.

Another view looking down at the show from the Boatworks Mall

Great Shows (all the time) Would Be Boring OR ....

A fellow artist sent these to us. They are photos of our booth at the Summit Mall in Reno. Notice two things ... those giant blue barrels (55 gallon drums) and the lack of people. The blue barrels were loaned to us by the Summit Mall. This should have been our first clue this was to be an exciting show. Those blue drums were full of water and each weighing 440 pounds. I travel to these shows with four 40 pound buckets of concrete of my own. That put the weights for our booth at 1040 pounds total for this weekend. Every pound was needed the first two days ... damn that's a windy place.


Sue and I learned many years ago that you don't do arts and crafts shows in Reno. This show was supposed to take place in Homewood at Lake Tahoe, but it had to be moved at the last minute. We should have pulled out, but we thought we would give Reno another chance. The people of Reno are not art buyers. In 7 years, this was our worst show ever ... Oh Well !

EXPOSE YOURSELF TO ART ....

What can it hoit ?

I found this when I was a member
of North Tahoe Arts. It needs to be
used once in awhile.

SUPER SECRET STUFF

Life is full of secrets, and my web site has one. Back in the catacombs of our site is “Odie’s Wood Works”. This is something I created to pass on my secrets to fellow woodworkers. It’s password protected, and the password is only given out to a select few. Seven people in all have it at this time. You see, my son Tom has no interest at all in woodworking. Maybe down the road that might change, but for now I’m passing on what I know (50 years worth) to just a few. It just seems silly not to share what I took a lifetime to learn. As long as I sell my work, I think this is the best way to do it.

The Sidewalk Painting Festival at Crystal Bay, Nv.

The first picture below is of Sunday Morning. You can see the washed out sidewalk paintings on the asphalt. You see the rain came the afternoon before at about 5:00 PM. It was a real gully washer. Some "paintings" where completely gone and some were only faded. They have two days to finish their pastel drawings, and some were finished the day before. These people got to do it all over again. Most of the artists were in good spirits and trudged forward on Sunday. Below are some of the results. Don't ask how we did ......

What Is It ?

I belong to a woodworking club online and it's called "LumberJocks". This club has over 10,000 members world wide. I started a little game there called "What is it ?". This is the latest entry into this game at #17. I'm known as one of the "class clowns" there and sometimes it's hard to be taken seriously. I have a link to this posting so you can see what I mean. Their guesses are quite comical. I am known as "odie" there.

lint = http://lumberjocks.com/topics/9014

Now why don't you try and guess what this is below.

NO CHEATING !
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HOW DID YOU DO ?

This is a drying rack for my box halves after spaying them with lacquer. The design makes it very easy to get the box half on the rack leaving plenty of room between the uprights for my hand.

Here are four boxes in this set up.

Northstar At Tahoe

These are the cobblestone canyons that is the resort at Northstar. Northstar is competing with Squaw Valley for the most prestigious destination ski resort at Lake Tahoe. I've seen both and Northstar wins!

This first photo has our booth in the middle. You can tell by the quilt rack, that is Sue's, to the right of the booth.
This is a different walkway on the backside of the buildings behind our booth.

This is one of the walkways around the skating rink where most of the show is.

Another canyon ...

More of the show in the rink.

Another view of the skating rink.

Another Day Of Realizing What I Have

After you live somewhere for thirty years, you forget what you have. Here is a collection of photos of the arts and crafts show and the surrounding views. This weekend (6/26-6/28) we are at Kings Beach (Lake Tahoe), California. We live in Truckee, which is only 10 miles away. I worked for 30 years for the telephone company and 23 of those years at Lake Tahoe and Truckee. It was not unusual to be 20 feet up a pole working and looking at these same views. I have been so blessed to live here and experience all of this ... even the winters. You see, I did have an outside job.

Here is our booth about 30 minutes before opening. Later the right side was removed.

This is a view down the isle towards the lake.

This is the little greenbelt area across from our booth.

Visiting other booths along the walk.

This is the other end of our isle.

More views down the walk.

This is the promoter's booth. She sells jewelry she makes.

Another view of more booths.

I took these next pictures standing 100 feet from our booth.

Yes, this is beautiful Lake Tahoe.

I am taking these from the North Shore looking mainly south.

As you can see, this is a very large lake.