Here comes the sun

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After a uniformly wet series of Saturdays, Mother's Day weekend skipped spring and jumped straight into summer: sunny, high of 89°. I wore shorts and a light flannel at 7 am for load-in, and ditched the flannel halfway through set-up. Where before, people were coming in the booth to get out of the rain, now they were coming in for shade.

Because of Mother's Day, I featured mommy pots on my display: rhino and calf, penguin and chick, even turned the bunnies teapot around to show the mom-and-baby on back.

Set-up was faster than before, with no walls to hang, and I blew threw Farmer's Market as well, so the morning seemed super-slow when I got back to the booth. In fact, my first sale came around 10:20, and things were steady after that. I turned the page in my record book around 12:30, with just under $400, doubled it by the end of the day. Lots of Mom's Day presents, and a lot of business cards taken by college students moving out of the dorms come Summer.

Biggest sale of the day went to a south Asian couple who bought an elephant pitcher, two dessert plates and three painted mugs; best story was from a young woman who bought the lions squared baker for her mother, who grew up in Africa.