Headmistress Kijewski-Jareau
August 01, 2013 10:18 PM
Booth Registration by Headmistress Kijewski-Jareau
As promised, the Booth Registration sign up went up a week or so after the Returning Feast had concluded. Along with the registration, there was a worksheet that the students were to fill out and place inside the box. This worksheet would describe exactly what they were looking for when it came to the design of the booth and any materials that they would require for the booth to be successful. Any information the booth designers had in mind would be of great value to those who were going to make their booths become a reality. The more information provided, the better for the builders.The registration also went over some of the guidelines of the booths as provided by the Headmistress during the returning feast. This was important information that the students needed to be aware of if they wanted to make their booths and the fair successful.
First, they needed to remember that there were several different categories of booths for them to choose from, but their booth needed to be assigned a category, so they were only allowed to choose one. The categories were: Food Booths, Game Booths, Informational Booths, Group Fundraising Booths, Arts and Crafts Booths, and Entertainment Booths. If the students were unsure of the category their booth idea would be listed under, they were advised to seek out a staff member for help.
The second reminder was that all materials for the booths, including food supplies, would be provided by the school. It was a school sponsored event after all; it would seem callous to not have the school provide the funding for the booths and the items that were intended to be in the booths.
The third reminder was that all booths were to remain free of charge except for the Group Fundraising Booths unless given permission by the Headmistress. Tip jars were allowed, but it would not be tolerated if a student forces their customers to leave tips. If a booth is caught charging a fee to their peers without permission, they will be asked to leave the fair and serve detention for the remainder of the event.
The final reminder was that people needed to keep their capabilities of running booths in check. A person should not sign up to run all the booths at the fair as it would prevent them from actually enjoying it and it was not possible for them to do everything all the time.
OOC: Sign up your name, the name of your booth, and the type of booth it will be. Anyone who wants to participate in that booth can then sign up underneath your registration.
Subthreads: Baking Club Booth by Waverly Canterbury with Henny B-F-R
Horse Lovers Booth by Jade Owen with Aria Yale
Petting Zoo by Chloe Jareau
Archery Booth by Keme RunningBear
Froggy Coin Toss by Adam Spencer with Virginia Bellrose
Caricature Booth by Dimitri Porter with Ava Fletcher
Korean Cultural Booth by Ji-Eun Park
Hidden Reflections by Linus Macaulay
La Salon by Charlie B-F-R
Olde Tyme Photo Booth by Derry Four with Regina Parker
Art Exhibit by Evan Brockert with Thad Pierce, Alicia Bauer
Candy! And charity! And Melanie! Wheee! by Marcus Crosby
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Evan Brockert
August 22, 2013 10:04 PM
Art Exhibit by Evan Brockert
Evan was looking forward to the fair. He was excited about doing a booth and sharing his artwork. He felt that art was meant to be shared with people and doing so made him feel good, proud of himself. Nobody could take that away from him, no matter how things turned out with Nora and the bet.He still wasn't sure he trusted her to be honest about the whole thing. Didn't trust her methods, he knew she had joined both clubs, a fact which he rather enjoyed, knowing that she wasn't interested in art or fashion. Still, he wished he'd found people who would be more...objective but he honestly didn't know of anyone either than Nora herself that was signed up for both clubs. How did Evan know she wouldn't just declare herself to be the winner? He'd told her that she couldn't help Portia but otherwise it just really didn't seem fair.
Plus, it really hurt. Nora really had nothing to gain by this, she couldn't possibly care that much about any sum of money. All this was about was making herself out to be right and superior. Meanwhile, Evan felt he had everything to lose. He was the one who would look bad, like a failure. In front of his friends, family, betrothed, and the entire school. His future in-laws would likely find out too and what if they decided to call it off? That would be embarrassing to his whole family. It was starting to rather bother him that people just didn't have faith in him to do things right when it came to things like this as well.
Sighing to himself, he placed his name on the sign up sheet,
Evan Brockert, Art Exhibit, Arts and Crafts, Items needed-Display pedastals, chair, labels.
He had placed the second item on the list so he'd have a place to sit. Most people had not thought to ask for this for some reason. Did they plan to be standing up all day? That could get really uncomfortable. In some cases, such as the Petting Zoo, there were things that required people to be on their feet, but what about when nobody else was there? It seemed, ironically, that they had thought of design first-for Evan, this seemed unnecessary, as design was whatever he happened to make, no pre-planned theme-and he was the one who'd thought of something practical.
The Aladren had also left places for any Art Club member to sign up beneath his name. They were welcome to display their artwork too and encouraged to do so. That was what the labels were for, to say who the work belonged to. Evan also added that they would need wooden "walls" to hang pictures on, if anyone painted something. He also hoped that someone else would sign up to watch the booth, so he could enjoy the rest of the fair as well.
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Thad Pierce
September 07, 2013 4:16 PM
Joining my Roommate by Thad Pierce
As he was involved in a number of clubs, and could have potentially made up something else unrelated to any of them for a booth, Thaddeus had his pick of options for what to do at the Fair this year. However, Henny had chosen not to do anything for the book club (aside from selling books, he wasn't really sure what the book club could have done, and this was a non-profit fair), and she signed up to help Waverly with the Baking Club. Thad feared he might eat too many of the wares if he did that, so he considered his other choices and decided his best choice was to help Evan with the Art Exhibit.Not because he was good at art. He was actually quite terrible at art. He was pretty sure his best production from the meetings so far was something he'd created when he was teaching himself how to use a protractor and ruler for some geometry problems he'd found in one of the Mathematics books in the library and then added some paint to it.
No, he'd chosen the Art Exhibit because that was what Evan was doing and it was only right to continue working with Evan for the Midsummer Events, as he had done that every year prior to this one and saw no pressing reason to end the tradition.
So after Evan signed up the Art Club's booth, Thad added his name below his roommate's.
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Alicia Bauer
September 08, 2013 2:02 PM
Well, technically, anyway. by Alicia Bauer
As far as the end-of-the-year events went, Alicia was generally happy enough. The ball was, of course, a delight now that she was established enough to not have to worry much about any way she appeared there being questioned, the Concert was challenging but fun, and the bonfire was essentially just an outdoor party. Nothing special, but nothing to really worry about, either, except for having to sleep in a tent, and as long as she had one person (Henny) around that she could stand and didn’t spend more time in the tent than could be avoided, that was all workable, too.The Fair, however, was the exception to ‘generally.’ Alicia hated it. She had hated it the first time she’d had to attend it, and so far, it didn’t seem like it was going to improve upon repetition. It just wasn’t an event which played to any of her strengths, and none of her usual ways of getting around things she didn’t like applied to it. Try as she would, she could not think of a single pretext for grouping all her friends together in a booth, so the options were either splitting up (bad, as she never really liked them spending too much time around other people they might decide were better investments than she was) or else just going as audience members rather than contributors (bad, as they were all playing for prizes and needed as much favorable staff attention as possible). Taking a position of ‘every man for himself’ (bad, as the beginning of the end happened the day they didn’t trust her absolutely anymore) wouldn’t help, either, because Alicia had no talents which were suited to that kind of exhibition: her hobbies were ancient Roman literature and rock climbing, and she seriously doubted most people would be interested in the former or that the school would allow her to offer lessons in the latter. If she had taken up Sanskrit or Arabic as a kid instead of Latin and been able to work some charms in one of those, she might have had a small audience, but that was still on her miles-long to-do list, and probably a good way down, as she was still bumbling her way through Spanish and, in spite of her distaste for it because of her family history there, would probably get more near-term use out of German if she did try for another language in the near-future. She was out of luck.
That left either accepting defeat again (unacceptable) or playing second fiddle to someone else (undesirable, but endurable under the right circumstances). Henny was with Waverly, which she didn’t much like, and it might be a good idea to continue to network with Waverly as well – but then, Evan had his own thing going, she was not sure of his organization skills, and that could be embarrassing for everyone. Of course, Thad would probably be with him, but…well, he wasn’t now, and technically, she could engage in the visual arts. She had been forced to learn to sew when she was little and still spent a lot of time at home working on needlepoint or cross-stitch, just to fill up the hours when they wouldn’t let her leave the house and to have, sometimes, more personalized items to give people on appropriate occasions. She had a ton of finished projects at home, both on display and just in boxes in closets, she could have someone send her, some of which she thought were actually pretty good if she was the one who’d sewn them, and could probably still whip up a doll dress or two at need.
Hopefully, though, she had enough junk here and at home to not have to resort to that. She really did not have time to sew much on top of day-to-day living and starting to review the thousand and one concept-building, but functionally useless, little spells she’d learned in her first few years here just on the off chance that a specific incantation she hadn’t used in four years would appear on the CATS. Knowing those wouldn’t, she was sure, be the key to a high score, but while she hadn’t mentioned it to anyone else in anything other than a joking tone, she was secretly hoping she could somehow pull a perfect one on at least one test and come as close as possible on all of them. That was not an endeavor greatly aided by art projects.
Alicia Bauer, she wrote in Evan’s sign-up area, indulging herself in a few more flourishes than she normally would use on a sign-up sheet. Needlework, she added to explain her presence at the table. If Evan objected, he could take that up with her separately, she would smooth it all over, and they would be agreed that a pillow in something close to her mother's china pattern was art. It had certainly taken more skill and practice than some of Evan's...things, anyway, and it was a nice feminine skill for a sweet, harmless girl like her to show off, if she could refrain from gagging long enough.
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