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Over the weekend, we toured the Turkeyville grounds while there were vendors at the site.  We noted uneven terrain and how people were setup.  This is going to help us assign stalls while noting who needs very flat ground and others that can tolerate being a little uneven.  Being that we’re setting up on grass, nothing will be perfectly flat.

We still have room available and have signed up several last minute exhibitors.  The website was updated over the weekend to include our most recent additions.

Our wonderful volunteers will be running around helping folks get checked in as well as working with the sheep shearing demonstration.  Their assistance for our festival this year has proven to be immeasurable and they haven’t even started working yet.  Just knowing that tasks will be accomplished and that I can hand off things to others has been great.  Not enough can be said about these folks.

We plan on bringing our laptop and air card to update this blog as well as Facebook throughout the weekend.

The forecast for this weekend keeps changing.  The only thing I know for sure about this weekend’s forecast is that the sun will rise and the festival will go on.  I am truly looking forward to meeting everyone.

It is hard to believe that our first two-day festival is less than two weeks away.  I have contacted all the exhibitors one way or another.  Check in for exhibitors will be Friday, October 2nd from Noon to 8 PM and Saturday, October 3rd from 8 AM to 10 AM.  Ideally, everyone will be setup and ready to go at 10 AM on October 3rd.  If someone needs to check in at a different time, we are able to make arrangements easily.

The sheep shearing demonstration is set to go.  We have the pen designed and ready to setup.  I’m going to set it up for the most part on Friday morning.  That way, if I forget anything (like my mind), I will have a quick moment to go and get it prior to the demonstration throughout the weekend.

The Art Quilt Exhibit folks seem to be ready to go.  They contacted me a week or so ago to let me know the number of folks attending.  The Art Quilt Exhibit will be in the remodeled granary / barn on the east side of the road.

The sheep-to-shawl demonstrators are bringing seven people to spin and weave their shawl.  This is truly going to be wonderful and am looknig forward to seeing the final product.

To date, we have about 20 exhbibitors signed up.  This is a great turn out for our first year setting up in October.

We’re on auto pilot now, just waiting for October 2nd to arrive!

It is just about a month until the October festival.  We are already seeing some increased trafic on the website along with e-mails and questions from people.  I received two more exhibitor applications the other day and will update the website in the next day or so.  I received a map of the Turkeyville grounds the other day and will be assigning exhibitors to their spaces soon.  There will be check-in time on Friday (Oct 2) and Saturday (Oct 3) morning.  I will be calling some of the exhibitors to see when the best time-of-day for check-in will work for the majority of people.  Please be sure to thank our tireless volunteers.