{"id":179,"date":"2009-09-23T08:33:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T08:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog1.ardoria.com\/?p=179"},"modified":"2011-11-29T00:45:54","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T00:45:54","slug":"trip-to-the-yankee-peddler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"Trip To the Yankee Peddler"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past weekend the weather was spectacular.\u00a0 Saturday we decided to make the trek to the Yankee Peddler Festival.\u00a0 We used to attend the festival about every other year but we hadn’t gone in over 5 years.\u00a0 \u00a0 We ended up taking the “scenic route” (i.e. we went the wrong way).\u00a0 Thank goodness for the GPS or we would still be driving around….<\/p>\n

We\u00a0 eventually got there, parked and went and paid our $27.00 for the three of us to enter.\u00a0 We quickly realized that the festival was not what we remembered.\u00a0 There were not as many artists there as there used to be.\u00a0 The size was definitely a shock.\u00a0 There was a whole area that used to be full of artists that was just empty.<\/p>\n

Here are a few pics from our time spent at the Yankee Peddler…<\/p>\n

\"Son<\/a>

Son and Hubby<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Son<\/a>

Son by Awesome Metal Sculpture<\/p><\/div>\n

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Period Dressed Soldier<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Yankee<\/a>

Yankee Fiddler<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Carved<\/a>

Carved Lawn Dragon<\/p><\/div>\n

All in all we did not enjoy ourselves..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It is hard to justify the $27.00 that we spent to get in.\u00a0 For $27.00 this should be a spectacular art fair with an enormous amount of artists, instead it was a quite a let down.\u00a0 There were fewer artists\u00a0 than in the past when we attended and it was hard to get over the fact of what we spent to enter and then to buy something on top of that just wasn’t going to happen. \u00a0 On a positive note, it was a beautiful day…not a cloud in the sky and perfect temps. in the low to mid 70’s and we got out of the house.<\/p>\n

Will we go back?\u00a0 Absolutely not.\u00a0 I will, however, continue going to local Art Festivals like the Lakewood Art Festival,<\/a> the Chagrin Falls Art By the Falls<\/a>, the Hudson Art On the Green and one of my favorites the By Hand Art Show at the IX Center<\/a>.\u00a0 All are free to the public and all have fabulous artists.\u00a0 There are so many Art Festivals in the Cleveland\/Akron area that are free with great artists that make this a real disappointment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This past weekend the weather was spectacular.\u00a0 Saturday we decided to make the trek to the Yankee Peddler Festival.\u00a0 We used to attend the festival about every other year but we hadn’t gone in over 5 years.\u00a0 \u00a0 We ended up taking the “scenic route” (i.e. we went the wrong way).\u00a0 Thank goodness for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[45,8,127],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out-and-about","tag-craft-show","tag-day-trip","tag-yankee-peddler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}