Renegade

I've been to the Renegade Craft Fair in previous years and I feel like this year was a vast improvement. The quality of the goods was much, much higher. I had never bought anything there in the past, guitar pick earrings and totebags with iron-on patches of Betty Page not being my particular poison. They had some higher-profile vendors, a lot of names I recognized from their online businesses. The location (in the McCarren Park pool) was much, much better than the dust bowl that is the rest of McCarren Park. I went as close to when they opened on Saturday as I could and there were already a lot of people there. By the time I left, it was slammed.

Like Gina, I take issue with anyone/thing referring to him/her/itself as 'renegade' (or weird. or crazy.). But that's a rant I can't get riled up for right now. Instead, I'll show off the loot.

The one thing I really wanted to get were some nice tea towels. The two on the right are from Rock Paper Scissors and the Little Red Riding Hood one is from The Black Apple. Plus, I got a copy of the Betsy Ross twirly skirt pattern that I've been meaning to pick up for a while.

However, my favorite find was a big basket of framed illustrations from Nancy Drew books. The seller's main gig is making purses out of hardcover books that are destined to be trashed. The friend I was with bought one of the bags, but for me, it was all about Nancy.

"Look! There's a witch!" Susie screamed.

"The lid on this mystery chest is stubborn," Nancy remarked.

"Help!" Nancy screamed. "Help!"

"All their faces have been blacked out!" Bess exclaimed.

I don't remember the one where she's attacked by the robot, but the others all look familiar. I looooved Nancy Drew when I was a kid. I'm tempted to read the books all over again, but I'm afraid they're not going to hold up to the passing of time.

Also, look how cute this girl at the fair is. I love the grasshopper on her belt:

Comments

[Donna]

The robot drawing is from The Crooked Bannister. The top one is from The Scarlet Slipper Mystery, the second one is The Clue of the Tapping Heels, and the one with the portraits is The Ghost of Blackwood Hall.

I know, it's really pathetic that I not only know that. I'd love to have some of those, though. I'm a huge Nancy geek myself.

[Gina]

Sure, leave the bitchy commentary to me...
I have a slew of Nancy Drew books at my parents' house. I'll have to give them the once over during my next visit. Although I tried watching the two ND movies on AMC last friday, and I could not make it through the first one.

[Jenny]

That robot looks like he's........ uh, nevermind. I won't go there.