We attended the long awaited Renegade Craft Fair in Wicker Park yesterday. It was, in a word, overwhelming. So much to see! It was as unexpectedly large as depart-ment was small. I'm like goldilocks looking for a craft fair that's just my size. We started strong, it was a bright sunny day, Oscar was merrily shacking his maraca, we were all oohs and ahs at each booth we passed. Then the maraca was thrown on the ground, repeatedly, the sun got hotter and brighter and we had to pick up the pace. The t-shirts and handbags started to blur together, whimpering turned to wailing and entire lanes were skipped. At this point someone stopped us to comment on how clever our stroller was that the front bar could be bent up to work as a teether. yeah, that's not supposed to happen. That's the result of the superhuman strength the boohoo baby gets when he's bored and frustrated. But we managed to get out of there in one piece, with all of our money spent and plenty to talk about the rest of the day. I'm so pleased with the things we found. Two cards, one by Tweedle made of old wallpaper and one by I'm Smitten (horse hostess). And I love LOVE my new dammed dollie. So cute and funny. I love all of her stuff. I would be very happy with an all damned dollie t-shirt wardrobe. But I was frugal and only bought this girl...
Our final purchase was this amazing print by Jay Ryan of the Bird Machine, "a silk screen printshop in chicago, illinois, usa which makes posters and other strange little hand-printed items." Tim and I both spotted it right off and knew we had to have it. We had intended it for O's room but we might put it in the living room so we can look at it all the time. Interesting tidbit...I always refer to this one poster we saw briefly years ago while having lunch whenever I try to describe something cute. I'll say it's like those floaty round things with the feet we saw that one time. I even brought it up again while we were debating purchasing this print. Turns out Jay Ryan made that one too! It was fate.
