You know that rain that slowly made it's way across the nation.....Well, it hit Plant City Florida at 8:30 am yesterday a half hour before the 9am opening of the Fancy Flea. I was soaked and my hair was soaked, but I'm smiling because....Well, what are you going to do?
All day rain in Florida is very rare and seldom in November, until yesterday. I know from growing up in Minnesota that if we had a big snow storm people didn't go out. Well, here in Florida people don't go out in the rain, especially an all day rain, and certainly not to an outdoor event in a dirt field. It rained and rained and then it rained some more
There was 400 vendors all set up for the big day.....And all covered up with plastic. When the gates opened...Well, lets just say there was no big crowd rush
The Flea has outgrown the streets of Lakeland Florida and for the first time was held at the fair grounds
The field turned to mud...Think Woodstock 1969.
Cars were stuck and had to be towed out, people were slipping and falling covered in mud, some vendors were in dips in the field and standing in 3 inches of water and the fire ants had a hey day biting every foot and leg in site.
Oh, and the police were called with lights flashing as a physical altercation erupted between two vendors. One vendor pushed the top of his tent up to get the water off and that caused the water to pour onto a neighboring vendors table.
Only a couple food vendors showed up and I'm guessing the porta potty emptying trucks couldn't make it to some of the porta pottys because of the mud.... So they filled up........Are you laughing yet!
We had everything smashed inside our tent with with plastic all around the outside
But, it wasn't a total loss, we made sales and the rain mostly quit the last couple hours so we were able to get some of "Our" merchandise out... Remember I partnered with Barr Display! Bless their hearts, what troopers! Oh goodness, they worked so hard and brought so much merchandise that we could not even get out of the boxes. If you planned on purchasing from Barr and understandably you didn't make it to the Flea you can always purchase from their online catalog HERE, shop in their large Orlando show room, or give sweet Megan, their customer service rep that was with me at the Fancy Flea a call 800-222-2702
If you have not entered the giveaway for this full size vintage look dress form,
This drawing has ended
you can enter HERE.....The drawing will be on Tuesday. Goodness, thank you so much to all of you that have already entered...I am blown away by the response!
Yes, I know people were disappointed but, putting things in perspective, this was not a disaster, not even close to what I would classify as a disaster. There is nothing you can do about the rain and I met so many wonderful customers, blog, and Facebook friends.
The rain quit the last couple hours so I will show you later this week a glimpse of our tent kind of set up. I'll let you know what sold and give you a look at some of the other vendors.
I'm happy to report that today the weather is gorgeous and sunny with a notable drop in humidity and clear blue sky!
Yep, this is the day the Lord has made! Yesterday......I'm guessing there might have been just a slight grin on his face!
Happy Creating
Carol
The field turned to mud...Think Woodstock 1969.
Cars were stuck and had to be towed out, people were slipping and falling covered in mud, some vendors were in dips in the field and standing in 3 inches of water and the fire ants had a hey day biting every foot and leg in site.
Oh, and the police were called with lights flashing as a physical altercation erupted between two vendors. One vendor pushed the top of his tent up to get the water off and that caused the water to pour onto a neighboring vendors table.
Only a couple food vendors showed up and I'm guessing the porta potty emptying trucks couldn't make it to some of the porta pottys because of the mud.... So they filled up........Are you laughing yet!
We had everything smashed inside our tent with with plastic all around the outside
But, it wasn't a total loss, we made sales and the rain mostly quit the last couple hours so we were able to get some of "Our" merchandise out... Remember I partnered with Barr Display! Bless their hearts, what troopers! Oh goodness, they worked so hard and brought so much merchandise that we could not even get out of the boxes. If you planned on purchasing from Barr and understandably you didn't make it to the Flea you can always purchase from their online catalog HERE, shop in their large Orlando show room, or give sweet Megan, their customer service rep that was with me at the Fancy Flea a call 800-222-2702
If you have not entered the giveaway for this full size vintage look dress form,
This drawing has ended
you can enter HERE.....The drawing will be on Tuesday. Goodness, thank you so much to all of you that have already entered...I am blown away by the response!
Yes, I know people were disappointed but, putting things in perspective, this was not a disaster, not even close to what I would classify as a disaster. There is nothing you can do about the rain and I met so many wonderful customers, blog, and Facebook friends.
The rain quit the last couple hours so I will show you later this week a glimpse of our tent kind of set up. I'll let you know what sold and give you a look at some of the other vendors.
I'm happy to report that today the weather is gorgeous and sunny with a notable drop in humidity and clear blue sky!
Yep, this is the day the Lord has made! Yesterday......I'm guessing there might have been just a slight grin on his face!
Happy Creating
Carol
