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16 April, 2007Virginia Beach Spring Craft Market
Saturday morning, Amanda and I headed over to the Virginia Beach Spring Craft Market to fuel our little obsession with all things craft. There was a large variety of vendors from fine artists, musicians, food peddlers, woodturners and every type of fabric-related craft you could think of.
The Tidewater Beekeepers Association was there selling honey, beeswax candles and other goodies. I liked seeing the bees making honey right on the spot. Little known fact, my mom and dad used to keep bees back in their hippie days before I was born.
There was a booth covered in fake food, from fake cakes to fake sushi and shrimp cocktail.
The fake breakfast looked extremely real, and there were fake cupcakes that looked seriously too good not to eat. Good thing we didn’t, they’re made of foam, wall plaster and that fake snow they put in department store windows. Amazing!
You know I had to buy something from D.O.G. Street Treats, which is a local gourmet dog bakery that specializes in hand-dipped doggie treats. I had a really hard time not eating one of these, they look so good haha! Kyla especially loved the peanut butter carob cups, which look exactly like Reese’s cups.
There was a booth of intricate, handstitched tapestries filled with vibrant color and shapes. The complexity of these amazed me.
Here’s a tiny detail of the larger tapestry. I would love to know what this technique is called if anyone knows.
Besides the dog treats, I got some Enchilada soup mix, citrus dip mix, basil garlic mix from Linda’s Garden and some Death Wish hot barbecue sauce and Wib Wub blackening spice from Smack Yo Mama. I love the names for all his products, and Toxic Waste is some serious hot sauce. Not for pansies. I was burning for like half an hour!
Amanda and I got a lot of good ideas at the craft show, and we also hit up the Habitat for Humanity thrift store in Virginia Beach and found some really good bargains. The whole store was 50% off!
Tomorrow I’m getting a 1” button maker in the mail. Stoked!
Comments
omg i thought that breakfast food was real when i saw it on flickr, and had to come here to verify whether or not it was! haha!
My girlfriend and I were there too - I purchased one of those so ugly it is cute record purses, little bitty aprons for the kiddies, soap, organic 'dip/spice' mixes, wood spoons and some other stuff. Overall it was a good haul,but I left feeling like something was missing - knit stuff? paper crafts? I'm not sure.
The fake food was scary real, what exactly would one do with it - it is not like you can play with it.
Still up for a car-pooler for Richmond on Sunday ;)
Those food artists do amazing work.....
I also got the basil garlic and I got the veggie one from Linda's Garden... I'm stoked to see that the farm fresh by my house carries her stuff.
Great pics. After a long day setting up the show the fake Coronas were sooo tempting!
We hope you enjoyed the show.
Steve
emgshows.com
