Craftwerk Round Up
Here is my companion piece to Martha's recount (AKA"drunken ramble") of the evening.
I could not believe it when I walked in. As Tom would describe it later, the scene was craft fair meets MOSH PIT!!!!
The Paramount looked to be filled well above it's legal fire safety limit. People were packed wall to wall, shoulder to shoulder. Obviously the advertising worked (we got to four updates). The crowd was quite diverse with ages ranging from 8 to 80 and piercings ranging from nose to undisclosed.
The stalls had all kinds of crazy stuff. From battling cakes (by Desperate HouseWife)...
...to crocheted pink bits to hundreds upon hundreds of badges. Unfortunately I was only able to wander around with the camera after the throng had cleared (which was only a few minutes before the end). This meant I didn't take photos of any stalls as they had been mostly picked clean by crafty shoppers.
Cupcakes and beer (or bubbles) seemed to be the order of the day but Tom, Che and I decided to drink and eat somewhere quieter and headed out leaving the girls to bring in the dollars. We returned only when slightly soused and when we figured the crowd would have thined a bit.
My only complaint was that I was "promised" Atari and there was only Sega (as pictured). This in itself was not so bad but the girls (who were fully hogging it) seemed only to be playing Sonic and I was hanging out for Altered Beast (a favourite of my youth). At one point they needed assistance, and when Che offered it they looked at him like "what? how would you know?"
Great night and good times! And strong rumour of another one in two months time. Stay tuned Craft-o-philes...
You heard it here first!
(unless you heard it last night, or somewhere else earlier today)
I should say I wasn't actually complaining about the Atari (though I do "kill" at Pong). Just that I didn't get a go, ::sniff::
Great Work Sue! Well Done!
yeah that blew with people hoggin it
especially for sonic?
maybe next time we should get a super rich sponser, hire the whole venue and have atari vs sega on the bergman and brooks cinemas.
To begin
thank you all of you lovely Wellingtonista peeps for your support and posts. You rock HARD.
Yes it was packed, scary packed. There was heather and me all worried taking the scary financial risk of moving to a bigger venue might backfire on us. Clearly that didn't happen, we broke even and Wellington turned on a great crowd for us.
Despite the scary packed - we are geekily responsible - and ran a headcount all night, so at no time were we over fire safety limits.
Next CraftWerk it hopefully set for the 16th of October. Location? maybe The Paramount, maybe somewhere else. The only way we can stay at The Paramount (which we love) is less stalls and that kinda blows.
As always i will keep my favourite Wellington Blog updated on the happenings.
oh
and the Atari died on us the night before and the projector died on us at 4.30 :/