April Showers Mean Cellos and Art

The April 6, 2012 edition of the Delaware Artist Showcase meant cellos and art in our part of the downtown for First Friday.  It was Mascot Madness night as the new professional lacrosse team had a great pep rally on the south side of the Sandusky and William Street intersection in front of Amatos, who is their designated restaurant for keeping the team fed.  Mascots from everywhere showed up.  We had a few come down. 


The artwork in the picture is from one of our vendors, Ami Banks.  She has some beautiful work. 

Jenney Kelley's Mom came in and had her beautiful purses to sell.

We had a great setup this time.  Since we only had five vendors, Mary Sue set the room up with chairs in the middle for people to come and sit down for a spell.  The cellos were awesome and we had a few folks in our audience section.  It was a really nice show, but we want to grow bigger for the next show and that's what we're going to do!

Our First Newspaper Article!

The Delaware Artist Showcase continues to evolve! 

We opened our doors with new signage at 5:30 pm on Friday, February 3rd.  There were five tables and LOTS of hurdles thrown into our path at the last minute.  Roilling with the punches was imperitive. 

We had vendors cancel at the last minute.  We had one vendor who "had to leave" earlier than expected.  We had many challenges and they made us angst as we searched for answers and resolutions that would make us feel better.  

By the end of the evening, we weren't thrilled with the notion of moving forward to our next show, especially as we discovered it was on Good Friday! 
Sales were very slow.  Crowds seemed to be only interested in collecting their chocolate.

Then on Sunday morning, out of nowhere, my husband handed me our This Week newspaper - freshly delivered.  The caption was awesome! 

      "Becky Dinovo takes one of Destiny Barber's Buckeye truffles
       at the Delaware Artist Showdcase during Main Street Delaware's
      "Chocolate Walk" during the First Friday event on Feb. 3. 
       Twenty-three businesses participated in the event."

We are a young group and we are continuing to make small steps toward our great goals!  It doesn't take much to get us back into the spirit of thinking about what we are doing and how to improve.

We'll continue on our path and grab the next bunch of challenges and master them! 

Our next show, is April 6.  We'll forge ahead.