Brookings Art Festival

South Dakota's Finest

2 day Art Festival...

Brookings, South Dakota...

200 Top National Artists

42 Gourmet & Ethnic Food Booths

11 Antique & Collectible Booths

22 Historic Displays & Old West Booths

This is the one, folks!

The one we would travel 100 miles

to see the latest and greatest,

crafi-est, hottest, trendi-est,

you-name-it-est...

funnest art show 

in our fine state!!

And this year

I got to do it all by myself,

just me and my Canon!!

It was a little soggy when I first arrived,

with a few clouds lingering and some 

drippy drips falling from the sky...

 

some of the vendors were wondering 

the same thing as I was (I'm sure)...

 

are we gonna get rained out today or what??

 

eventually, we all agreed the rain was done 

and it turned into a beautiful, cool day to 

enjoy some art, food, and music in the park!

 

I actually had a boxing match with 

myself to get passed the corndog stand!

 

 

 

Good Grief, Corn Dogs and Cheese Curds??

 

They know the way to this girl's heart!!

 

I ended up at the Stir Fry Stand

(all vegetable and low fat blah,blah,blah)

and, it was delicious!!

What a treat it was to be able to stroll

and cajole through hundreds of booths

on my own, nobody pushing me

or moaning and groaning

(yes, I actually heard some fellows

groaning from the pain of following

their spouse through a jewelry booth)...

 I certainly hope she groans with equal intensity the

next time he wants to watch a football game 

on the family t.v.!

Anyway...

I haven't been to this art fair

in quite a number of years,

and I  enjoyed

every minute!

Here are some of my highlights...

Unique to Antique

Sturgis, South Dakota

Furnishings, Jewelry, Accessories

 Another temptation

was Mastel's 

Blooming Onion!!

they were lined up for it...

The manly men,

you know,  (the ones groaning

about jewelry shopping) were all

lined up for a cool collector's mug

of old fashioned soda pop!

I think just standing

in front of a booth 

called Wild Bill's

made them feel better!

this person statue

was about the coolest

thing in the park!

What do you think...

statue or person??

Here's a closer look...

the blue eyes give it away!

 (I'm still at a loss as to male 

or female slugger?)

 

And as for my favorite booth...

this one takes the honors...

  

I loved the unique artsy jewelry,

the trendy style of blending old

with new...

the authentic displays 

brought together a perfect match

and made me want to get out 

the plastic to take it all home with me!

 

So I splurged on a funky little

bauble for me...

a fun necklace...

A pretty little 

locket for 

a picture

of the grands....

An uppercase 'L' for "Lusty"...

and a crown 

for the queen of picklin'...

(oops, did I say lusty? 

I meant Lisa!)

 Just talkin' to

those gals made

me dip into my sassy side!

Two fun gals

and one Funky Booth

check them out 

here:

 funk'd up junk

The Junk JezeBelles

Such a fun festival!

this South Dakota Girl

needs to do it every year!

How about next year

we make it a date?

See you then! 

Lisa