Hi Lacey,

The tent looks just fine and there are no signs of the trauma sustained.

I am sure you have no problem getting accepted with this preliminary set up. I wish you the best of luck and hope that the show will bring you many new commissions.

Thanks Enzie! I am rather impressed with how well the picture turned out, considering the condition that the tent is really in.

Now I wish I would have taken a picture when it was caught in the clothesline, bending and twisting, just for fun. I could've joked about submitting that photo! :oops:

Lacey so sorry for the delay- I just took the scale down to the weight. The weight I picked was 20.5 pounds.

Carrying two of the weights at a time is a comfortable thing on my own. Maybe I could go 35 pounds, but there is alot of stuff I have to carry otherwise..a single woman putting up a tent is not easy.

ps Before I bought my tent I talked to a quite a few exhibitors. Costco had the Caravan which was really inexpensive. EVeryone said that The Caravan was heavy and unweildy and that EZ- UPwas easier.

I don't doubt it but there is nothing easy about EZup.At least for me.

I got my tent on EBAY -a great deal.An EZ tent with 4 walls and a canopy for ( guessing here) about $450

I would not mind NEVER setting it up again.

Thanks, Chris! Your weights are nice looking, do you use more than one on a corner? I am so paranoid now, I think I'll aim for 40-50 lbs per pole! :oops: I weighed one of my cinder blocks, and it was almost 50 lbs, but not as attractive.

Now I'll just have to find some beefy guys to haul it all around for me. I'm not very muscley myself. :bewildere

Thanks for the info! Anyone heard anything about "King Canopy?"

My PVC tubes were actually 3" - you could go 4 or 5 inches but the question is, could you carry them. I used one per pole and I liked that they are very slim and I could attach them to each corner very unobtrusively,

My very limited experience here was that I had about 1.5 hours of daylight to setup. I hired a boy scout to help me. Depending upon the venue the set up time can be very short.

pps All this thought makes me have to sign off to go to the gym. Sigh.

Maybe I will just make double the number of weights and attach two to each pole. It would mean more trips, but I do not want another tent flying away!

Yeah, I'm off to put in my Pilates video. :oops:

One reason I like these weights is that I can still zip up the tent when they are attached. I do think you could double them and leave one of the two inside the tent, per corner.

I also thnk that is a good idea to remove paintings from the walls each night, if you have any doubt whatsoever as to the coming night.

Also depending on the climate, works under glass may tend to condense. They will need to be covered or placed under a table.