The 15th Annual Kumeu Classic Car and Hot Rod Festival was held in the weekend (17th & 18th of Jan), and I got to take part as a vendor, along with Rita Sue, for the very first time.

The Saturday was fantastic! The stall was full of people a lot of the day, and everyone seemed to have a genuine interest in what I've been creating over the past year or so.  When letting them know that everything they saw I had made with my own hands, they were even more impressed.  I was even visited by happy customers of past, who loved their devel clothes so much that they wore them to the show!

Below are a couple of the girls seen in devel women, Jo James and Mary-Rose Ballard:

The weather really held up well on the Saturday, with people getting quite sunbaked and wanting to hide in our stall as long as possible.  There was a slight breeze that kept us all cool, but it managed to become a little stronger at times and lifted the Rita Sue stall off it's front legs, and sent the devel rack of clothes sprawling a couple of times!  The fun of having an outdoors stall!

The boyfriend and I did manage to have a little walk around to perve at all the cars on the Saturday afternoon.  There were so many obviously loved and cherished machines there.  You could tell how much money and time would have been poured in to make some of the cars look so fine.  Of course, it was a little bit of fun torture too, seeing as the boy and I are on a constant hunt for our own hot machine!

The Sunday wasn't so easy-going.  The morning brought the forcasted rain, and encouraged almost everyone who had camped there, to pack up and go.  It wasn't 'til around lunchtime that it had quite obviously cleared up, and wasn't teasing us with periodical sunshine.  So the boyfriend and I sped back up to Kumeu as soon as possible to set-up again, and what did we find?  A sparse vendor site after everyone was chased away, and MORE wind!  This time we couldn't even put the back wall up for fear of losing the whole marquee onto one the rather hot and expensive classic and custom cars that surrounded our newly chosen site.  We only lasted two hours, before the rack had gone down enough times, and the wind was not ceasing, before deciding to pack it up again.

All in all it was such a blast! Trying out new catelogues on the customers, picking up various custom orders, and having the wind keep us on our toes; it was all another experience to add to the devel belt.

If you missed it, and are in the Auckland area, then you should definitely make it along next year!  And look out for more photos on the official event's website from this year!

Next up, Whangamata's Beach Hop Retro Fashion Show...