Hello hello! We just finished up a loooong weekend at Renegade Craft Show in San Francisco and it went so well! (Our home, however, is much worse for the wear.) Thanks so much to everyone who came by and bought some slamming art, whether for their kitchen, to use as a study aid in culinary school (yeah!), or as a gift for another meat lover in their life. Steve and I really felt the meat love.

We pop champagne….. Thanks Isabel and Dan!

It was also so great to see friends (some bearing cans of champagne!!!), chat with fellow artists and vendors, catch up with old co-workers, and meet internet/twitter pals in real life. My favorite exchange of the day was with a kind woman who asked if I was from SF, and then proceeded to ask which school I attended. I told her that while I lived here now, I didn’t go to school here. And so she asked which art school I went to. Much laughter as I told her that I went to law school, not art school.*

This was my first time doing a summer Renegade show, and it did go really well. Since it was my first show since the holidays, the ole booth set up needed an upgrade. My hubby, a newly accomplished carpenter (complete with beard pencil holder) designed and constructed some great display cases. They were a classy upgrade from our old kraft paper-covered foamcore cases we had over the holidays.

Man, is there anything that beard CAN’T do?

It was also my first craft show since the holidays, and after the MEAT MARKET art show in May, I had a bunch of new work to display.

Figuring out which pieces to keep from previous shows, as well as how to best display my original works, and all the new prints was challenging. In fact, on day 2 we completely changed our display, which I think worked even better.

Day one set up. Slightly barren, no?

Set up on day one. Nice display shelves, right? Also, we only have 2 of the original tiny cheeky meat watercolors (lower shelf, left side) remaining!

A bit of a crowd, and a good look at our booth on day 2. We moved the cheeky meat prints out of the bin we had them in on Saturday, and posted them on our back boards. We also made use of our kind neighbor’s wooden booth to display our new larger charcoal butchery diagrams.

Our perpetual neighbor and friend , the amazing Brad of Tiny Sparks

Oh, and I bought myself a little treat! A bamboo watch from Mistura.

Now, to buckle down and create a meat poster for LA, where I’ll be at Renegade, in oh, 4 days!

*She then followed up with the inevitable question of “what do you parents think about all of this,” but, uh, we don’t need to discuss that, right?