We sat down after our board meeting the other day & decided that we really want to build a new encampment for faire this year. We’re going to use the metal frame & roof from my first booth, which was one of those nice gazebo type things and build wooden walls to go on the outside. We plan to have a door that opens & closes & two windows with flower boxes. We’re going to paint it to match the cloth roof & then use a darker brown to do a quick trim job & make it look Tudor-style. I’m really looking forward to it, so we can have nice place to store our stuff.

We’ll build a new eric to keep the mundanes out, too, using pine poles & tiki torches, set in buckets with Kwik-Crete & we’ll make the fence part by string rope on the poles/torches. It’ll take up storage room when we aren’t using it, but it’ll be a much better way to secure our area & make things look much better. We’re all really looking forward to getting started & will hopefully be able to as soon as tax refunds start coming in. It’s going to be a lot of work, but I think we’d all rather have something really nice that we can use year after year, instead of continuing to replace pop-ups & trying to make them look good (and failing), so it’ll be worth it.