Over a year has gone by...

Ok - so my intention was to actually write ongoing entries.  I'll blame the fact that nothing has shown up on this blog to my purchase of a journal from my friend Miranda.  Creating journals, belts, wallets and such out of recycled rubber tires,  Miranda is one of the ingenious young entrepreneurs, artists/craftspeople at Pike Place.  I began writing in the journal this past summer as I sat at my booth at the market fully intending to come home and blog.  I now have months of stories hand scrawled on the welcoming blank pages and I will miraculously transport them to this medium as time goes on, interjecting the past with the present.

To bring my story up to date - I continue to sell our art tiles at Pike Place Market.  This winter has been so much milder than last, but the market itself is going through a renovation and the chaos of porta-potties on the street, cranes looming over the buildings, brick and mortar tenants being displaced and the craft line being disrupted by giant wooden boxes forming alley ways for visitors to walk through has been challenge enough.

Big news of the week - a couple of our young 'marketeers' will be getting married.  Rumor has it that the ceremony will take place at the roll call board just before we choose our spots for the day.  Romantic ? No.  But so very Pike Place.  And so very marketeer.  No need to order flowers.  The aisle will already be in bloom with farm fresh tulips and assorted vegetables.