Bellevue Arts & Crafts Fair / ArtsFair / Whatever

Kinetic sculpture at Bellevue Arts & Crafts Fair from a previous year
Originally uploaded by former coworker Wade Rockett

The Bellevue Arts & Crafts Fair is my kind of craft fair. The stuff on display is really really cool. Much of the exhibition space is out of the sun (in the bottom level of the parking garage) so sunburn can be avoided. There's Fisher Fair scones and other "fair food".

It's at Bellevue Square, so there's free parking, restaurants if you want something other than "fair food" and real restrooms instead of just porta-potties. You can also just wander into the AC to cool off (this is most handy when it's 90F ... today's only in the 70s, yay.)

Then there's another fair across the street which also has really cool stuff (including fairy wings, in case anyone going to Faerie Worlds needs them...) and a well-organized Starbucks.

There's also the Sixth street fair, but we didn't make it over there today. :)

Did see k_crow's mom's booth, did not see k_crow. Saw some other folks we hadn't seen in a while too. :)

Today's haul:

• New headband
• Blue blown-glass "fishing float" to set off Grandma's green ones
• Blue blown-glass wine stopper
• Corn dogs & Fisher scones
• New shoes (jw1776: "Hey, aren't we by the New Balance store? I should buy new shoes.")

The title of the post is in reference to how they have repeatedly changed the name of the event and nobody cares. :)

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The work of the world is common as mud.
Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
But the thing worth doing well done
has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
Greek amphoras for wine or oil,
Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums
but you know they were made to be used.
The pitcher cries for water to carry
and a person for work that is real.

— "To be of use" by Marge Piercy © 1973, 1982.

Thanks to siderea for referencing this poem in her post on callings.