"The Ghoulmaster Greeting Everyone"!
Many who know me know that I have been doing soft
sculpture for almost 25 years. As I look back at my humble beginnings
I've noticed how I morphed from being a "crafter" into becoming an
"artist". I use to be afraid of that title, artist, it just sounded so
presumptuous and not me! Heck, I was a med student in college and
wanting a career in forensic medicine....well I'm still surrounded with
body parts but now I get to feel like a re-vamped Dr. Frankenstein as I
design and create! It just amazes me to this day that all my hard work
and struggles with a medium that I knew very little about when I
started, would lead me to the most incredible and magical show in the
United States, "Ghoultide Gathering"!
Not only am I a vendor at this remarkable show but I'm
on a hug friendly and first name basis with artists I have followed and
admired for years! Oh, the stories I could tell you about my
butterflies turning to bats the first time I met some of these
incredible individuals....I truly felt like a kid meeting their hero for
the first time!
Ghoutide was a HUGE success once again this year
primarily due to the hard work of Scott Smith and Stephanie Rawson with
their cast of plenty! They have taken a holiday that gets brutalized by
the media and put the
magic back into it that we all remember from days
gone by! I like to refer to it as a new form of adult entertainment
with a "G" rating....We get to dress up, drink cider, laugh, haunt and
have the time of our lives for two glorious days. Music fills an old
barn that has been dressed in orange and black with "Ghoulies" a plenty
greeting the guests as they arrive. Palm readers and psychics are
waiting to tell your future as you pass the time in line, never a dull
moment. A Ghoultide Trick or Treat bag is handed out to carry your treasures and
store those yummy treats that sit at every table waiting for the young
and old to gobble them up! Like I said a new form of adult
entertainment "Halloween at its BEST"!
Our
new venue this year, because we out grew the last one, was perfect! A
bit nippy on the cold rainy day but it made Halloween come alive even
more....I mean who wants a hot sunny autumn day, right... hot apple
cider just wouldn't be the same! The decor was amazing with a pumpkins,
cornstalks and hay bales everywhere....not to mention the amazing skeleton and scarecrow sculptures from Scott Smith that greeted everyone
and haunted corners throughout the show. We are so "uptown" we even
have gourmet food wagons set up to test the most "hard to please"
palate! I had a grill cheese that tasted like ambrosia from the Gods
and it was a "Grill Cheese Sandwich"! Kudos to the chefs! Ghoultide is
definitely a class act from the entrance to the art and food... not to
mention the absolute "down to earth" attitude of all that
participate....egos are definitely checked at the door and we all are
one with the "Ghoulmaster and Mistress"! Thank you so much Scott and
Stephanie for yet another fun filled, successful and awe-inspiring
weekend! Your cups runneth over with love, respect and ghoulish
business sense not to mention talent!
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Sheila Bently |
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Bill Gilmore & Scott Smith |
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Allen Cunningham |
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Pam Gracia |
Scott Smith Scarecrow
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Scott Smith |
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Scott Smith |
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Nicol Sayre |
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Paul Gordon |
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Joyce Stahl |
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Jennie & Joe "Prim Pumpkin" |
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Lucky Stradley |
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Will Bezak |
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Stephanie and Vaugh Rawson |
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"Soft in the Head" |
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Arbutus Hunter |
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Carolee Clark |
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Laurie Hardin |
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"Soft in the Head" |
7 comments:
Not only are you an artist ~ you write very eloquently about an event that I just have to make time for!! It looked like great fun and sounds like no stone is left unturned!! Thanks for sharing your story!!
What a wonderful description of the Show. Sounds wonderful.
Hugs
Incredible images and fantastic music!
I wish I could attend, it sounds so wonderful and the booths are filled with so many beautiful and ghoulish art pieces, love them.
Debbie
I enjoyed the pictures!!! I love anything Halloween!!!
We had such a blast !! Cant wait until next year !!!
Hi Pam!
Sounds and looks like it was another fabulous and magical event.
Glad to hear you had much success!!!
Thanks so much for sharing all the wonderful displays for us poor souls left behind.
Prim Blessings
Robin
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