Finally home.

Hey beardos, did ya miss me? I just got home after two weeks of craft fair madness in LA and San Francisco, and it was amazing. Of course, being dependably obnoxious, my camera failed to take almost any good photos during the trip. Luckily, lots of folks have posted photos from the Renegade shows on Flickr, so I can still prove I was there. Check it out!

Here I am in my booth at Renegade Craft Fair in LA... looking a little creepy, but there's no avoiding that. Let's tell it how it is: I'm a beard pimp.
(photo taken by paul and kat, who make awesome buttons, and now have a yarn beard of their very own)

Some of the delightful merchandise. (also taken by paulandkat)

Here's a close up of the rainbow beard on one of the round heads I made for the show... I get creeped out by those styrofoam heads, so I had to think of something to display the beards on that didn't make me grimace. These seemed to suffice, although the nose I embroidered on is hard to see in this photo. (photo taken by Anita K. Hart)

Renegade also brought me my first brush with fame in LA! Chris Hardwick bought a beard, then posted a photo of it on his twitter. Standing in front of (fellow Portlanders) Berkley Illustration's booth, no less!

Renegade in San Francisco was also amazing! The venue was a lot of fun too, Fort Mason is quite a spot. (photo taken by * j e a n e e)


See how lovely it was? (photos from treatzone, whose booth I missed at Renegade, and I am kicking myself for it.)

Look how busy it was! (another photo by * j e a n e e)
All this craziness might help explain my absence the past couple weeks, but I promise I'll make it up to you. I'd like to do a little post on here of some of the awesome people I met while doing these shows... perhaps later this week?
Glad to be back in the beard workshop, but I'll be thinking fondly of you, California.