I Can Do This!!

When I visited The Carriage House Bazaar, an event at a private home in Beaverton, OR, in November 2006, I thought, "I can do this!"  My friend, +Carol Allen, dove right in to help, and we visited with the owners and directors of The Carriage House.  After picking their brains for all the details, we decided we were ready.  No money, no vendors, no customers, no display items...boy, were we naïve!  We each put up $150; we coerced friends and strangers to participate as vendors; we combed our address books for a mailing list; we shopped in resale stores for display racks.  My daughter-in-law, +Rikki Fernald, made a pen and ink drawing from a photo of the house for our logo, and we were off!