I Survived!!!

It's Monday night after PAF weekend and I'm still standing!  I had a blast this weekend, working the art fair.   I finally got to meet all the artists I've been talking to all summer.  Aunt Patty bought me beautiful earrings and a necklace made by Randi Chervitz.   My boss, Kara, surprised me with my favorite piece from 2-D artist, Andrew Johnson.  To top off a great weekend, Kara took all the art fair staff (and our significant others) out to dinner at Brio...I had the best grilled salmon and a few glasses of Riesling too :)  

Michael took over 600 pictures of the weekend.  I will post more pictures of the fair later this week.  Overall it was a huge success!  We had beautiful weather all three days, and there were no major problems with any of the artists or restaurants.   Michael and I got to go around the fair yesterday and hand out the awards to the winning artists.   It took us over 4 hours to hand them out to 15 artists just because we always stopped to talk and hear their amazing stories. We were both inspired :)

We brought Penny down on Saturday to the PAF and she was a huge hit.  Everyone wanted to meet her.  She was such a good girl, we had her down there from 11 am - 10 pm.  She took a few naps during the day and Michael had to carry her to her kennel when he got home.   I Love Her.

Michael is really inspired to apply for brookside, prairie village and the plaza art fair in 2009.  How fun would that be for him!!!  

Back to school and back to life as a senior in Larrytown!

a weekend for chili and sweat pants :)

I'm officially gonna say...it's officially FALL. This is my favorite time of year; football, sweatpants, halloween, art fair, xmas around the corner (and of course my bday too!).

This weekend was very relaxing...I didn't do much of anything except study and go to Elspeth's wedding. Michael and I were supposed to cook our friends dinner and then go out to P&L on Friday, but there were like 8 tornados between Lawrence and KC so they couldn't make it.

So MJ and I ate lots of pasta and chili to eat all the food he bought for them. No worries, we got it done :)

We went to mass last night...I'm trying to start going again more regularly. It is definitely a great way to start the week off right.

Plaza Art Fair is this weekend! It will be a crazy busy week with work and school, but it will be a great experience. I hope everyone can make it down and see it! Let's hope for a nice fall weekend!

plaza art fair crunch time

I'm getting really excited for the plaza art fair. I've been interning for kara (the director of PAF) all summer and it will be here in 2.5 weeks! There is still so much to do but it is going to be a lot of fun. I'm learning a lot in this last month about event planning, like how essential it is to be 100% flexible in all circumstances and to just "roll with it."

I got to go to the kc star and edit proofs of the PAF insert which will be in papers Sunday September 4th. So everyone should check it out then! My name is in it and I co-wrote and edited all 8 pages of it. And i got to pick out the pictures...they are all my top 3 favorite works from each medium. I've included some of them below...

I'm really excited to see what else the artists bring! Its going to be a busy weekend, I'll be there workign the entire weekend, but I know it will be fun to see my family and friends stop by at various times during the weekend.

It's been kinda rough traveling back and forth from lawrence during the week for work, but it's only temporary and totally worth it. Hope everyone can make it out this year for the PAF!