Ryan Galiotto

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On April 5, 2009 there will be a Hoohuihui Craft Fair Extravaganza at Hilo High School cafeteria, 556 Waianuenue Avenue, Hilo from 9:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. There will be all kinds of craft makers who will join the Craft Fair to showcase their handmade crafts. You can also enjoy their Ono Food that is for sale.

There will also be a Merrie Monarch Festival during the Hoohuihui Craft Fair Extravaganza. Besides form the handmade craft from the Hoohuihui Craft Fair Extravaganza. There will also be art exhibits, demonstrations, performance and a parade that emphasize the Hawaiian culture. This will be a good opportunity for you to start your business network, with all the customers around.

Forty-six years ago the Hawaii Island Chamber of Commerce had started this festival. The festival was then handled by the private Merrie Monarch Festival Community after a few years. Merrie Monarch Festival is a non-profit organization that is still registered under the Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.

This non-profit organization had a purpose to perpetuate, preserve and promote the art of hula and the Hawaiian culture by educating the local and visitors of Hawaii. This organization gave a venue for the people and the community as a whole to show and learn their traditional and modern art of hula.

Merrie Monarch Festival educated the local residence about their history and heritage; they were even given the chance to incorporate their modern art with the traditional art. When the residences were educated they were able to appreciate more unique harmony and balance that their ancestors have maintained with their island environment. For us visitor we got the chance to learn and see the rich culture that Hawaiian culture offered. It was a culture that we have been fascinated with.

The Spring on the Farm sponsored by Watkins Mill Association will be on April 18, 2009 from 11:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. This educational event will be held at the Watkins Woolen Mill State Park and State Historic Site. There will be different activities that visitors can learn from and enjoy at the same time.

Spring on the Farm will feature activities that you can learn from like the 1870s sheep shearing method. The American Livestock Breeds Conservatory is where the endangered livestock are kept. You can also watch the Heirloom Garden. It will have interpreters that wear 1870s customs and will raise the bed to plant last years Heirloom Garden seeds.

Watkins Woolen Mill State Park and State Historic Site was bought on 1964 and it was also the first time it was considered as a historic site. But the place was only declared as a National Historic Landmark on 1966. The Missouri community voted to give fund for the improvement of the Watkins Woolen Mill State Park and State Historic Site on 1981.

The original owner of the Watkins Woolen Mill State Park and State Historic Site was Waltus Lockett Watkins. Versailles, Kentucky was the birth place of Waltus. When he turned 18 he went to his uncle to learn how to weave and be a machinist. After a few years he moved to Liberty where he started his first successful business. On 1834 when Watkins went back to his home town he got married and had 4 kids.

After a while Waltus relocated again at an 80-acre farm 16 miles north of Liberty, a farm that he called the Bethany. Although the first few years were hard, he lost two of his sons in the first years. He was able make his farm successful by his success livestock, crops and orchards. With the success his farm was having he was able to purchase more land making it grow to 1,300 acres. With the success that he had help him to establish a community by assisting in making the community school and church.

Ohio State is a member of the American Corn Belt, and therefore, we are naturally heavily dedicated to agriculture. Over the years, we farmers have been fortunate to have seen many inventions that have made farming easier. Surely, it is still a difficult and high-risk job; these advancements, however, have helped make this line of work be the monotonous state of life that it has been for my grandfather’s generation.

As it happens, the farmers of today get to have more time to devote to himself and his family, as opposed to their predecessors from decades past. For example, I, as a farmer, have been able to spend more time with my hobbies. This is something that I would not have been able to do with the way they farmed fifty years ago; I am able to go back to wood carving in the same way that I did as a young lad. And this is all due to me spending only significant fraction of my time farming, as opposed to all of it.

So before I realized it, I had developed an impressive collection of wood carved objects that could no longer fit in the shelves. So, as saddening as it was, I was forced to start keeping some of them in boxes. But even then they began to pile up. I was getting faster and better at carving.

So then one of my good friends suggested something interesting: Why keep the fruits of my labor in boxes that no one will get to see, when I could instead sell them at craft shows? He even suggested that I man the booth myself, and just instruct my first-born son to mind the farm in these rare days. I could even carve some more while I wait for people to take an interest in my crafts. It was an interesting idea, and I decided to try it out.

It turned out to be one of the better things that I’ve decided to do. While rough at first, I eventually got the hang of it, allowing me to keep my collection to a bare minimum while not stopping my hobby. It’s not the best income, but it’s decent enough to afford me to give a gift to my children from time to time. Now I don’t have to give them some of my works on their birthdays.

New Hampshire has always been an independent state. Even before joining becoming part of the initial thirteen states that founded our nation, we have already broken off from the grip of Great Britain six months prior. Its people shares this independence to this day. We maintain, that we should “live free, or die trying”.

While the world has significantly settled down from the chaotic times in the past, we still believe in keeping our independence. Because of such, people from New Hampshire usually try their luck at business, like I have. I went out and tried to be an entrepreneur, and now I am my own boss. Craft shows gave me the opportunities I needed.

In this year alone, there are more than 200 fairs that will occur in our beloved state. You can be assured of three fairs, give or take a few, occurring on a weekly basis. And in each, you will have the opportunity to secure a booth so you can sell various items. Sell some craft wares, whether bought from another source wholesale or made by you, and see your business beginning.

In some cases, it is not a simple matter of going to the fair and selling your crafts. When you chance upon a juried fair, you will have to first prove that you are capable of holding your own. Your products will be scrutinized, and a portfolio of previous events that you have attended will be checked. It’s not easy to get a booth in these events, but if you get in, the quality control ensures more people will attend the event.

These are times wherein a new job is difficult to come by. And even when financial challenges are over, being an entrepreneur at craft shows are a good way to supplement your finances. Start to attend craft fairs and festivals, and you, too, can become your own boss.