3rd Coast Tribal and Rainbow Doggies

3rd Coast Tribal began yesterday and I am splitting a booth with Kim of The Eyes Have It. Kim, Lacy, and I spent two days driving down to Texas and it's good to not be in the car anymore. We checked into the Hyatt down by the stockyards before setting up our booths. Kim did a great job, she got us a $400 room for $70 on Priceline. It's a great room and only .7 miles from the event at the Rose Theater. And to continue the kitty cat welcoming committee...there's a sweet gray and white kitty that lives outside the hotel waiting to get loving. On our last vending trip, there was a tabby with his tongue hanging out waiting to be fed when we came in in the evenings. To our surprise breakfast is included with the room every morning. It's still pretty much the same as cheap places except there is oatmeal and fresh cut fruit available.

Since it was a Thursday, things began a lil slow, so we had plenty of time to get our booths decorated. I added two new Leona product cards, one Zoe inspired and the other, Ariellah inspired. I found Bojan Rajic of Croatia to illustrate them for me. He's great to work with and super fast! Krista Widman, my last illustrator was unavailable this time, but it gave me the idea to have a different artist each show. That way I can help show off their stuff as well as mine. At the next show I'm going to add artist bios on the back of the cards. So if you know any artists with a comic or tattoo background, let me know. Yesterday the workshop teachers included Donna Mejia, Sahira & Silvia, Sharon Kihara, Blue Lotus Tribe, and Zoe Jakes. The only views from my booth are thru the front double doors to traffic on Main St. and a nice view of the Geisha Moth booth in the adjacent room. So those will be my stories of note for the day. The first was thru the double doors. A woman who was walking her two poodles started to gain quiet a crowd of onlookers and cameras. One poodle was a beautiful black while the other was the color of a rainbow sno cone. The attached photo is of Sharon Kihara petting the sno cone one. Then to my entertainment through out the day, Geisha Moth was selling mustaches for a penny. Photo attached is a workshop attendee having a serious discussion over a skirt while wearing her mustache.

Dinner was rushed because apparently in downtown Fort Worth most restaurants close at 9pm. So, I didn't get a picture till it was all gone. It was a good Tex Mex version of guacamole salad and jalapeno salsa.