Can’t wait for next year’s Festival!
This is my great big THANK YOU post (sorry if it’s long) this has been years of dreaming but essentially about 8 months of planning.
Wow, what a weekend! It has taken me a few days to recover and wrap my head around everything that happened this weekend and sum it all up here:
I am so very grateful to:
❤️Historic Cold Spring Village, all of its staff and volunteers. Especially, Jason Black the most fabulous Pirate and my points of contact with in the organization, John Ryan and Bob Biting.
❤️The amazing artists and talented handcrafts-people that took a chance on a “first year show” banking on the fact that, as a working artist myself, I was (and did) throw all of my years of experience at making this event happen.
From what I understand, several artists have had future offers for wholesale or additional “after the show” sales connections were made!!!
❤️The Musicians:C Lynne Smith and Emmitt Herron
❤️The speakers who appeared as a personal favor to me: Guy Fleming and Sharon Brubaker and Sara Ann Caruso with her invaluable and extensive knowledge in Shard ID
❤️The volunteers and friends who spent their weekend helping me by making booth checks, for artists to have a break, manning the contest entries, helping with mark out, parking and vendor check-in, walking the Wildwood Boardwalk handing out postcards in an attempt to get people to come out on Sunday, setting up and manning my booth while I was off running around making sure every one else was content:
Tricia Hall and Jerry Garnsey,April Haig, Kristen Steindl, Janine Padula,Lynn Massimiano, Sandra Novick, Sandei King Gittle.
❤️Big love to all of my friends and supporters who couldn’t be there but showed their support in every way possible by liking, commenting and sharing posts continuously for months!
❤️A very big Thank You to every single person who came out, supported the artists and the Village!
❤️❤️❤️And certainly last but not least, my eternal gratitude to my family, Michael Hunter,Laura Mckeon,Ray Hunter,Michael Hunter Jr for the undying love and support helping me make my dreams come true every single day! (All this, while prepping and chauffeuring both kids to prom Friday night)❤️❤️❤️
We can’t wait to do this again next year!
THANK YOU!
