Momentum!

We had a big push this weekend and quite a bit was done.

The rest of the umbrella panels were laid out on Friday ready for the weekend of progress.

We decided to go with a water based fabric paint commonly used for silk screening. It should remain flexible and was easy to purchase in bulk. Of course it turned out that we didn't need nearly as much paint as I expected so I now have enough left over to do this at least 4 more times.

Maya, Troy and I spent around 7 hours Saturday working on the hardwood floor as we painted the 6 panels.
Sunday Maya and I were joined by Becky for a few hours as we finished the painting. Meanwhile Joe got started on the wood extensions for the umbrella as well as the tabletop for the stand.

Monday involved mostly sleeping and computer work for me while Joe continued on the woodwork.

Next up I need to heat set all of the panels before a final washing and the rest of the sewing and start working on the dormer panels.

We're back baby!

Progress!
The stand was welded this weekend... and yes it looks like it was done by a pack of marmosets, but a pack of marmosets with a grinder and black paint.
Here you can see Entropy working his magic with his Harbor Freight rig. Hopefully no one will notice what a death trap it is. We still need to fix two of the feet (or redesign all 5)

We have also begun the work to decorate the fabric for the umbrella. Sadly the bleach just doesn't have the effect I was hoping for so we will resort to paint. 5 of the 12 panels have been laid out. The 6 dormers still need to be designed but I'm thinking I might use some embroidery on those.

Hopefully we will make better progress now that we have some momentum again.

Massive Delays!

Wow, lost a bit of momentum around here! I spent most of the last two weeks moving stuff around and working on fezzes so little was accomplished on the actual booth. I hope to return to the process soon.

Base Build

The challenge with this is to build it without needing much outside assistance and yet make it look like it was done by someone more evolved than a pack of marmosets.

Note that I did not say a pack of baboons. It is important that one recognizes their limitations.

ohhh, 3D!

so I decided I would mock up the umbrella base in Google Sketch because I was tired of trying to explain what was in my head.

It's the first thing I have actually created in Google Sketch so don't expect much.

The goal here is to have it both extremely stable and portable. So that should be easy

Weekend Plans

We have a bit of a challenge this weekend. It is the annual Grand Prix down here and that means there will be no parking available and the streets will be filled with race fans.

Anyway, that means it is time for us to get out of town. I don't know how much time we will have to work on this but I do hope to at least take photos and layout some artwork for it.

Planning

this past week was set aside for planning. (now that is not entirely true, we expected to do other things but we only accomplished the planning part) We built the current booth and check to see how much room we had to move inside. It will be cozy but the lady in charge of vending says he is happy with it, so who am I to question that?

Hopefully we will soon get to the decorating stage and have more photos to share.