09/28/2021
I slept 10 hours last night and had two naps today and I am still WIPED OUT.
Yesterday was...bonkers. I, and so many other fellow vendors, haven't done an outdoor market in 2 years. Or any other sort of market in nearly as long. If we were rusty, you didn't seem to mind. That was one hell of a "welcome back". If there was ever a seed of a doubt that I might not want to do this on so grand a scale in the last year, it was firmly weeded from the garden during past week. I wore myself out, up waaaaay past my 10 pm bedtime, for days leading up to the market, making new pretties and dusting off old ones and putting on tags and prices and counting and making more....an endless loop and I enjoyed every second of it. Yesterday was the icing on the cake and I am filled with nothing but gratitude for everyone that showed up- organizers and vendors and shoppers alike. This is what I do, and this is exactly where I belong.
I didn't get a booth shot yesterday. Actually, I did, right before the market opened, but in the brilliantly bright sun I didn't notice that it was a total blur and before I got a chance to try again, well, "total blur" feels rather apropos. And about that brilliant sunshine...if you have ever attended or vended or followed any posts regarding the Collingswood market, then you know that in the...4? 5?...years we've been doing it, it has never, ever not rained. I have my hunches and more than one person came up to me and said it and, yeah, it wouldn't surprise me if my parents had a tiny something to do with that...if they have control over such things? Not really sure how that works. But what I do know is that they watch over their people and this Clover Market
family is definitely their people, just like they were your people and welcomed members of this beautifully insane extended family. And I will miss seeing them both there just as I know that many of you will miss seeing them both there but I know deep down in my still exhausted bones that they will always always be there, proudly beaming as bright as yesterday's sun. xo