A year and a half ago I went to the Fair in Pasadena, not many exhibitors and way too many masks. Last year I went to the Fair in Burbank. Many more booths – still too many masks. Burbank and Pasadena are practically neighbors – so that tells you something about the density of population here, that Jackalope can have two fairs, one month apart – essentially in the same area.
This year I went to Pasadena and there were 200 hundred booth, a ton of people and too many masks. A lot less than before, I’ll pretend that the older people have some compromised immune system, the Asians are just used to it. But why oh why! I see a family, mother father don’t have masks and the five year old kid does??? If I had asked they would have said: he is comfortable – that is exactly the problem – you conditioned him to hide his face and will continue to do so forever.
All of the artisans are local to the area – which is wonderful. I was eyeing one of these, but didn’t end up getting one. Who knows, maybe in the future.
How about these baskets! Adorable.
The craft of quilling is very interesting to me, not one I will ever try, but I do know that it takes time and effort. But also, Not sure I’d want it on my walls
There is soft sculpture, how about these for someone who even kills succulents.
Speaking of soft sculptures. How cute are these, especially in their old radio flyer wagon
Someone made owls, as well as other colorful creatures.
These would be great in an ice cream parlor or donut shop. Or, yes, just up on the way. I know my granddaughter would like the unicorn donuts.
Now I’m sorry I didn’t get the name of this company, I think I’d like one of these in my back yard.
Something else I didn’t buy, this book is from 1962, I used to have the Paris book. What can I say, we are getting rid of books, so why buy more. The style is sentimental to me – but that is all.
So what did I buy? these three old restaurant menus, the actual menu is on the back. I chose a color theme and a Los Angeles theme. Joel had gone to Ships as a child, I remember seeing the Westwood location sign. I never went to the Ambassador hotel where the Cocoanut Grove was – once again I don’t think it was still open. I never heard of the Sky Room, this was at the Lockheed terminal at Burbank Airport – or whatever they call it now. These are the P-38s which were made through-out all of WWII.
The wall is not empty anymore, I guess I have some space left for something else as well.
I bought this platter, from an Israeli woman who is practically my neighbor.
Looks good with the owl.
I won’t be posting for a while, we are off to Croatia, I will post pictures on IG, but won’t take the time to try and figure out creating blog posts. I’ll be inundating you with that when I get home.
Leah