Buckhead, Here We Come!

The Buckhead Spring Festival is this weekend!!  It would be hard to find a better location in Atlanta to have a show.  This is the first year for this show so hopefully we will have a good turnout.  The promoter has done a great job with advertising, and since the show is in Chastain Park, anticipation is high.  They’re calling for isolated thunderstorms Saturday, but I’m not too concerned about it considering the accuracy of our local weather forecasters.  It wouldn’t surprise me if it’s nice all weekend.

I sold a large portion of my dipping board inventory at my last show, so I have been working on getting the numbers back up.  This is the last batch that is in the process of drying and should be ready to pack up in another day.

The Dipping Board Saga

We are a veggie family.  No, I’m not a vegetarian.  There’s nothing better than a good ribeye, but we eat a lot of raw veggies with dip.  As a result, I make these veggie trays that have much more character than the cheap plastic ones you see in most homes.

I also wanted to use the same board for serving bread with a dipping oil.  SInce the well was sized for store-bought veggie dip containers, I needed to find a bowl that would fit the well.  Now this didn’t seem to be a big deal, but after searching for two months, I couldn’t find one that fit exactly.  Being an Etsy seller, I searched their pottery artists and found a set of three dipping bowls that appeared to be the correct size.  They also looked nice.  Unfortunately, after receiving them, they were just a hair too big.  I  loved the bowls though, and contracted with the artist to make ones custom sized to fit my boards.

Here’s the result.  I think they turned out very nice and really enhance the board.