pandasheart: Panda's Heart (Default)
2019-05-29 04:31 pm
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QotD - VARF

Me: G'day to you, Sir. How are you?

Older gentleman: So good you wouldn't believe it!" (and he walks away)

His comment made me laugh so he came back to tell me that he loves doing that (walking away after saying that phrase). He said that he's had people follow him down the street in hopes of finding out more.

pandasheart: Huh!? (huh)
2018-06-10 10:19 pm
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QotD - VARF Closing Weekend

Welcome the Virginia Renaissance Faire ... we're moist!
~Chris Babcock

I can run faster scared than you can mad.
~A patron
pandasheart: Huh!? (huh)
2018-05-21 09:27 am
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QotD - VARF Opening Weekend

"It's too hot for boobs."
~Overheard at Hill Girl Crafts
pandasheart: (whistlejacket)
2017-05-28 09:38 pm
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QotD - Third weekend of VARF edition

Brian: I forgot to wash out my mug from last night and now I have mojito-flavored water.
Me: Is that a problem?
Brian: No

"If you think it's beautiful than so do I."
~A husband to his wife in the shop

"Tittie stare. That's my super power."
~Keegan

"It's not the fall that I mind ... it's the sudden stop."
~Dextre Tripp

"Swallow your pride and clap like a girl."
~Mary Prankster

"Are you channeling Puck?"
~[personal profile] daecabhir to one of our friends

[personal profile] daecabhir : (explaining to a patron that the potter also knits) "She doesn't idle well."
Patron: Then she should get her throttle checked."
pandasheart: Panda's Heart (Default)
2017-05-25 07:43 pm
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QotD - Second weekend of VARF edition

"Can't go wrong with buying something with hearts on it for grandma!"
~ A customer

"Obviously thrown on a square wheel."
~ A customer after someone else asked how I make square pots

"You must not be circumcised ... there's no end to you!"
~ Sue
pandasheart: Huh!? (huh)
2017-05-20 08:18 pm
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QotD

"But clay is clean dirt!"
~Jana from Circus Stella
pandasheart: Panda's Heart (Default)
2017-05-15 08:44 am
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QotD - Opening weekend of VARF edition

"If I lost my beard brush, I'd be lost."
~A well-bearded vendor

"You know it's not store-bought if there dirt and leaves on it!"
~A patron

"Loom knitting is just needle knitting at a 90-degree angle."
~Doc Coleman
pandasheart: Dragonfly (dragonfly)
2016-06-06 09:32 pm
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QotD (VARF final weekend version)

A hot, muggy day ... it's like being inside of a sheep but not in a good way.
~Rory the Dog

It said that revenge is a dish best served cold. It is also said that revenge is sweet. Revenge is ice cream!
~via Rory the Dog

I'm an outcast. That's why I'm here.
~Otter

Raku = Raccoon pottery
~drunk patron

I want to see that man drink out of a racoon!
~Rory the Dog
pandasheart: Dragonfly (dragonfly)
2016-05-22 07:25 pm
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QotD (VARF weekend 3 version)

It's wrong, but I feel it.
~Rory the Dog

Hoo hoo impulse
~Rory the Dog

Oh, you're a PG13 potter.
~patron

Sagittarius - yours is the only voice of reason in a house of lunatics.
~Stage performer

We have a young acquaintance who goes by Harper as she plays the harp at VARF. With Saturday's wet weather, she wasn't able to play, so she announced that she was "Er" for the day - no Harp!
pandasheart: Dragonfly (dragonfly)
2016-05-15 08:34 pm
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QotD (VARF weekend 2 version)

Pay me with your face money so I can feel like a stripper.
~Rory the Dog and myself

Throw it like you mean it, Princess.
~Mom to her daughter at the axe throw
pandasheart: Dragonfly (dragonfly)
2016-05-07 07:17 pm
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QotD

"If you're not broken in some way, the world can't get in."
paraphrase from Rory the Dog
pandasheart: Panda's Heart (pony welcome)
2015-07-07 10:50 am
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Word

Rory the Dog from VARF says that I have a firm and creamy bottom.

This was after he was checking out my new clay body.
pandasheart: I am pony! Hear me roar! (rapidash)
2015-06-08 02:30 pm
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2015 final weeknd of VARF

The last weekend of VARF is always bittersweet. We're tired and long to have a weekend to ourselves but it'll be a year before we see some of our friends again. This year's faire was my best sales-wise to date although my studio is far from earning its own keep (especially when you figure in mileage). I'm forever grateful to [livejournal.com profile] daecabhir for his support of me and the studio in this endeavor.

Enough with the blather, let's get to the funny things that came out of people's mouths this weekend!

  • A male patron walking barefoot past the booth on the gravel path responded to his friends when they said he was nuts for going sans shoes ... "It's random reflexology!"

  • A lady who came into the shop who declined my offer of picking up pottery ... "I put the Q in klutz!"

  • When discussing yarn bowls with two patrons, when they learned that i was a loom knitter, one of them exclaimed, "So you're an authentic knitter!"

  • Our neighbor across the way at VARF has dubbed us, Mr. and Mrs. Pottery. When she comes to visit us, she tells her husband that she is going to visit the Potteries.

  • Our friend [livejournal.com profile] dansr has dubbed [livejournal.com profile] daecabhir the Ninja Sex Panda.

  • Soundbite of the day: "Give her a southern injection."

  • We delivered a custom mug lid (and her mug) to [livejournal.com profile] dansr from [livejournal.com profile] dreamtigress. Upon seeing her spiffy new mug, [livejournal.com profile] dansr's reaction? There was squealing and snorting. Dead squirrels fell from the trees. And to quote the brownie, I love her so much that my uterus is swelling and I want to have her leather babies.

My faire weekends were filled with friends, roses, laughs, The Rogues, pottery finding new homes, and the love of my life.
pandasheart: Panda's Heart (huh?)
2015-05-31 08:48 pm
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Faire-isms


  • Your path may be straighter. My path sees more.

  • I can prove that with an Etch-a-Sketch.

  • I'm just pretending to pretend.

  • It's so hot, I'll be a fuzzy puddle

pandasheart: Panda's Heart (pony welcome)
2015-05-25 05:32 pm
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Faire-isms

Gems from the weekend...

  • I'm not going to argue with your barrels.

  • Do you want a spout because you have a beard?

  • She's a short woman, not a young woman.

pandasheart: Panda's Heart (pony welcome)
2015-05-11 09:47 am
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Faire-isms

From day two of 2015 VARF

  • The great goat man = the bits under the kilt. As in when a man in the kilt bends over, you might see the great goat man. ~Rory the Dog

  • Oh. You're one of those drinkers. ~a patron

  • Wee nips = a safety mug

  • I need a larger nip than that. ~a patron

In other news, this has been the best opening weekend for sales yet!
pandasheart: Panda's Heart (pony welcome)
2015-05-09 08:13 pm
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Opening day gems

Today was opening day of our VARF season and we had some wonderful snippets of 'wisdom' shared in the booth...

  • I'm from Chicago. I know how to be a bag man.

  • How you today? Schmeh?

  • Drink until you see someone Scottish.

  • I will listen for the stench ~ Longsotcking (of the fiddle tree)

  • Foamy mug time! Foamy mug is my friend. ~ Rory the Dog

pandasheart: Dragonfly (dragonfly)
2014-07-02 07:47 pm
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Bang! It's July!

Insert some comment about how time flies here!

What follows is some odd random bits that needed to be written down somewhere.

Overheard at the Prancing Pony Pottery booth at VARF this year:


  • Wife: "Honey! Throw an axe! Show me your love!"

  • Husband: "Uh. I don't throw axes."





  • Parent: "Come on throw an axe!"

  • Teen: "No."

  • Parent: "But it's a life experience!"



  • Husband, after wife purchases a vase with dragonfly sprigs all over it: "Oh good. You got the one with little 'goddammits' all over it."


Overheard at the Prancing Pony Pottery booth at Celtic Fling this year:

  • "They gave me more sass than a drunk gay man!"



  • "Warm up your eyeballs ... they're going to be rolling again!"

pandasheart: Dragonfly (dragonfly)
2014-06-04 11:35 am
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Snippets from VARF

"My wife says that I'm a jack-ass of all trades"
~ The Renaissance Man

Overheard:
"Nice beard!"
"Thanks. I grew it myself."
pandasheart: Panda's Heart (huh?)
2014-05-25 11:29 pm
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Really LJ?

The new LJ layout and interface is full of complete fail. There's too much extra junk stuffed in what they tried to make look like a cleaner layout. /sigh

The third week of VARF is done. We've had incredible weather thus far and with the exception of today, sales have been a wee bit over last year's. (And I do mean wee bit.) Today, however, we didn't break the $100 mark which, I am pretty certain, is the first time that that has happened at faire.

Ah well, this post is not about complaining ... there's already been a comment from my lovely [livejournal.com profile] daecabhir about me having cranky pants on this evening. You see the folks who think it's okay to piss all over the seat in a public toilet or priv, must be punished. That is a foul and nasty thing to leave for the next human who come along. Oh shoot, so maybe I did have my cranky pants on after all.

Well, then, it seems that it is ready for bed. Excellent well and good night.