Wednesday, June 15, 2011

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(The awesome MARLA TIARA of MARLATIARA.COM modelling the Missy-designed swag bag!)

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Phew...finally getting around to posting more photos from the ICE ATLANTA SUMMER MARKET, which was held at the AMBIENT + STUDIO in Atlanta this past weekend...we were thrilled to finally see the TOTE BAG that Missy designed for Saturday's swag bag giveaway. Forty minutes before the show opened, there was already a line down the street with eager shoppers waiting to get inside. The first 250 lucky people in line got one of Missy's totes filled with swag and propaganda...they were gone in under 18 minutes flat! It was a trip to see so many people walking around with those bags...

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Our new friend Mariko stopped by our booth...she's best friends with our friend Yayoi, our japanese penpal from back in the day who used to make this really cool FANZINE called CATCH THAT BEAT...

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We were fortunate enough to have a table next to our friends from Toronto, BECKY & AITOR, of the SWEETIE PIE PRESS and THE MISANTHROPE SPECIALTY CO., respectively. Every summer they pack up their car and tour through North America, hitting up as many craft shows as they can along the way to help fund their adventures. They shared their stories from the road and regaled us with all the weird things they saw along the way, like this psychedelic HORNY HILLBILLY that they picked up in Kentucky on their way down south...SCARY!

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We tried to snack healthy to keep our energy up, but at one point, I finally had to run down to the FOOD TRUCKS outside to fetch myself and Missy some lunch. I ended up going to the GOOD FOOD TRUCK and picking up these WAFFLE CONES FILLED WITH THAI FOOD...lemme say that again...WAFFLE CONES FILLED WITH THAI FOOD...we kinda had to eat them quick because there was no way to set them down while helping customers...

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The RED BULL GIRLS handed out free RED BULL ENERGY DRINKS from their bottomless backpacks. Missy and I had never tried Red Bull before, but since they were free, I thought I'd give it a go. It failed to "give me wings"...though, I do believe that it "gave me the shits"...it tasted pretty nasty. I'll stick to caffeine pills, thank you...

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During the lulls, we passed pieces of paper between us and Becky and Aitor, each of us taking turns to draw something silly...

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Sunday, we returned for the second and final day of ICE Summer Market...the night before, I covered our table with my VINTAGE BED SHEETS, featuring Disney's THE BLACK HOLE and RETURN OF THE JEDI...

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This girl stopped by our booth to buy a replacement for this SNAP POUCH that she had bought off me about three years ago!

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These ladies had a lot of fun at our table playing with Missy's FINGER PUPPETS...

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Sarah, Danny and Jean stopped by to say HI...then they all went down to the food trucks. Missy came back from the Good Food Truck with a couple of HOE CAKES for lunch...

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Sunday's highlight was Aitor's "UNFLATTERING PORTRAIT" of TOFU BABY! We're so proud to have her as a part of Aitor's ever-growing gallery of portraits...check out the Unflattering Portrait Gallery HERE, and see if you can find the one he did of NILLA a couple of years ago!

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2 comments:

Sarah said...

These photos are great and I LMAO at the Tofu Baby with no makeup!!! Ha ha ha we have something in common. :D

RANCHO COCOA said...

Thanks, Sarah! Yeah, our friend Aitor is the master of the unflattering portrait. Poor Tofu Baby!