The picture above shows just a fraction of the outside area. Canton trade days grounds are huge with many, many vendors. You can buy just about anything you want to. Lots of very nice crafts and antiques. Now for my disappointment----I did not find a single booth with scrapbooking supplies with the exception of ribbon. Was so hoping to find a booth or booths with stuff like paper (pretty of course), stamps, punches, etc, but no. Now of course I am not saying there are NONE there. I just did not find any. Ok, like I said I did find ribbon. I found 3 booths that seemed to be all the same vendor with lots of nice ribbons. The prices were anywhere from 3 yds/$1.25 to about $5.00 a yard. Most of what I bought was the 1 yd/$1.25 and the 3 yds/$1.25. It ranged from 1 inch wide crochet type lace to about 3/8" grosgrain. There were also some very nice trims that were roses with leaves. You can see the pictures below, however my photography does not really do them justice.
If you count from the left the 6th piece of ribbon has small white roses with light mint green leaves. The 8th piece is light pink and dark pink roses with light green leaves. The 5th, 7th and 9th ribbons are much like some I bought on HSN that were by Amanda Blu. This vendor had many many rolls of ribbons and also gift wrap.
Oh, yes a couple of other things I bought----there is a vendor there that has been selling their wares for a long time called The Shop. They are wood-workers specializing in unfinished wood items such as shelves, peg boards, etc. I found and bought a Spice Shelf ($16.00) that will work great for my craft paints and also a book shelf ($16.00) that will hang on the wall. I am going to place that shelf over the area where I keep my rubber stamps and clear stamps. I will post pics of them later as DH has painted them but not hung them yet. Hopefully tomorrow.
We are looking forward to "maybe" going back on the July first Monday weekend. It will be hotter than----well you know! We have been to Canton many times and was pretty well prepared this time. If you look again at the picture at the top of this post you will see a man (have no idea who he is) pulling a cart. We have one of those that we have had a long time. Ours has a plastic liner but we saw some at Canton that are really nice and will probably buy one of those the next time we go. Those have a kind of flap on the front that has a couple of pockets that would be great for a little notebook and pen. We will also take a small cooler with our own drinks. Iced Tea (which was very good) was $4.00 a cup! We ended up drinking that as well as lemon-ade. I'm sorry, but $16.00 will go a long way on more scrapbooking items or whatever. We also bought a couple of nylon drink can holders that will attach to the cart as well as a metal rack thing that will hold large styrofoam cups. One thing I have learned, you have to keep hydrated!
They also rent motorized carts there, however they are $50.00 a day. Again, $100 for cart rental? No, if it comes to the day I need one of those, I guess I will quit going. Would probably run someone down anyway LOL (Again check out the picture at the top---you can see people using those.)
I have to say, if you live in Texas or close around you should plan a trip to Canton for First Monday. It is always the weekend of the first Monday. Thus the first Monday of June is June 1st, then the event is the weekend just before that Monday. I am not real sure exactly which day of the week it opens, but Friday, Saturday or Sunday are always good days to go. It is open every month of the year no matter what the weather. I have experienced it all. We used to have a craft business and had a booth there for a couple of years. Saturday we kept trying to figure out where our booth used to be. Never could quite figure where it was in relation to where we were at the minute. This morning I was looking at the site map we had picked up and realized that one of the pavillions we had been in yesterday was probably sitting right where I booth had been all those years ago.
Ok, next weekend---its The Great American Scrapbook Convention in Arlington, TX. Now I KNOW I will find stuff there LOL. Also going to find a Tuesday Morning to try to snap up one of those Heidi Swapp totes they are supposed to have on sale that day. $19.99 stuffed with 200 items!
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