Our booth at Ketchum Art Festival July 14-15.  We enjoy this show because we are surrounded by mountains, and the people are very friendly.  We have made some good customer/friends here over the years. My art is Garden sculptures, that are ceramic beads that stack on a conduit.

 I was having a problem with little kids coming to my booth and wanting to build with the beads.  I know they look like toys, but when the kids handled my beads roughly, they got broken.  Then the parents left feeling badly because they paid for broken merchandise.  My solution was to make beads to be handled only by the children.  The beads are all the same color which helps to keep them apart from the beads that I sell.  Did some get broken? you bet! Did I care? Not that much!

 These are the tall sculptures that I make which are thematic in design. An interested art lover would buy the entire stack.  These are my designs which feature textures, shapes, and colors. 

Art lovers may also design their own sculpture.  I supply beads of many colors and shapes and a person may pick a few or a lot.  This has been a very fun interactive way for the people to buy my art.
  The weekend threatened rain which we did get late Saturday afternoon.  But all in all a very successful weekend.  By the way, Square makes transactions very very easy!!