The Sunshine Room

Yesterday I was back in the sunshine room - the great outdoors. I had a booth set up at the Back 40 Festival and let me tell you, it could not have been more fun! I got so many encouraging comments and made so many sales, and when I think back on the day I can't think of anything I would change. Such a good feeling. I got an offer from a woman in Winnipeg who owns a boutique to sell my note cards in her shop. I sold about 20 notecards and printed around 30 photo booth cards (some were reprints when people came back for more!).After I took this photo of our booth there wasn't much time to take another. We were busy. You can see the white screen and my tripod set up off to the left.

This was our view from the tent. We were up on the edge of the bowl looking down. This picture was taken first thing in the morning (11am) and this crowd tripled or maybe quadrupled before the day was done! It was the biggest crowd EVER at the Back 40 Festival.
And look at that sky. It rained while we were setting up, but the weather could not have been better. Wendy said she kept looking at the sky thinking, "Okay, now it's going to rain", but it never did. It was gorgeous with those big clouds.

Initially I had hoped that this weekend would just be about letting people know I exist, and visiting with my friend Wendy who came along to help me run the booth. But there wasn't much visiting time. We were kept on our toes. After yesterday's success, I feel like I've established myself as a respectable photo business with an entirely new customer base all at once! I am just thrilled. And the photo booth idea was a blast. I got suggestions from customers about all kinds of places they'd like to see me set up: the Morden Corn and Apple Festival, the Farmer's Market, even church youth group! We'll see what pans out this Summer, but it sure feels good to have made these contacts, and had such success with my photography. Wow. This is what it feels like!

friday morning

who's in the booth?

Photo Booth

Please come to the Back 40 Festival this Sunday in the Morden Bowl and have your picture taken by yours truly. I will take good pictures, and you will look good - maybe even as good as I do in these pictures. Totally. You will not regret it.

It may rain, but we have goggles so it's all good.

Fence progress

The fence is not coming along as fast as we had hoped because we've had such a ridiculous amount of rain. Thankfully the rain hasn't flooded our basement or backed up our sewer, as it has done to many, but it's incessant dripping has kept us out of the mud hole that will someday be our enclosed yard.
Derek told me that in Emerson (about 45 minutes away), 80% of homeowners had three feet of water in their basement last Saturday because they got over 7 inches of rain in 24 hours and the storm was so powerful it knocked out the power, which turned off everybody's sump pumps, and as you can imagine - lots of people woke up to wet basements.
We are lucky not to be so inconvenienced.

stealing screws

Oh yes, we all worked very hard.
Some of us worked on the fence.

notice the mosquito bites Luke suffers for his dedication to the task.

Baby Abuga

We've had a bit of a dry spell as far as posting videos goes, so here's another video.

playdough

Just after I stopped recording this video I made a little person out of playdough and showed it to Luke. "No, that's not a person," he said, "That's a penis!" Not yet sure if I'm proud.