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A day at the Market
Our Day at the Market starts bright and early at 5:15 am Saturdays! Most of my work is done the week prior, with orders completed, any new designs created and all packed up carefully for travel and keeping.
All the supplies and items I need to set up my vendor booth at the market are usually already packed into my car, yes, my car the night before. It's amazing how much stuff one can carefully and safely pack into a car when they need to! It's kind of like a jigsaw puzzle and it's packed the same way each time because it works or maybe more like a Jenga game! Move one piece too soon and mass chaos happens! Anyways we get there and it's not a far drive for me, although I've done many markets that were a drive. I set up my tent when I get there, and then the tables, and then I set up the displays. Amazingly the display is unique to each market. It tends to be similar, but it's never the same for any given two Saturdays! I have to have everything set up and complete, ready for sales by 9 am. Which is usually all the time I need to set up my displays then the jewelry and finally clean up, put away my storage boxes back into my car, pay the market manager for the day. I then get my POS equipment ready for sales. I'm usually in a great mood at that point ready to greet customers new and regular customers! Some I have visit my booth every week and they buy something new everytime!
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Anyways, Saturdays are busy and I do a lot of heavy lifting, setting up a tent by myself but I also have a great time chatting with my customers and fellow vendors. Being out in the fresh air is priceless! Come visit my booth sometime at the Niceville Community Farmer's Market located at the Twin Cities Pavilion parking lot each Saturday, year round from 9am-1pm.
Do you know why the beaches along Northwest Florida Gulf coast are so sugary white? Read on to learn...
White Sugar Sand Beaches
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The beautiful white sugary sand beaches that draw millions of visitors every year have a specific reason why they have a bright white look to them. Interestingly enough, other beaches of Florida and on up through the Carolinas look different. So what makes our beaches so special? Destin, Panama city, the beaches of 30A all have a particular reason why they are so irresistible.
First let's talk about how the beaches were created. These beaches have been in the process of creation for thousands of years. This is eye opening, but one, might think, well, it just is because it is, but everything has a reason.
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How it began
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When large deep slabs of ice that covered North America began to melt after the ice age, large amounts of water flowed down from the Appalachian mountains. It filled basins or lakes and then started streaming down towards the Gulf carrying with it crushed very fine pieces of Quartz minerals. Quartz is an abundant, hard, stable mineral that is composed of Silicone and Oxygen Atoms, is usually colorless and often has a pure, clear appearance. These Quartz minerals were carried all the way down what today is called the Apalachicola River through Florida and in time mixed with tiny fine pieces of shell on the shoreline. This mixture continuously collected and created the beautiful white sand beaches we see today giving the Northwest Florida Coastline two unique visible wonders.
One is the pristine white color of the sand and two is the emerald color of the coastal waters next to it. Proudly called the Emerald coast, the beautiful beaches we see today along the Northwest Florida Gulf coast are nature's beautiful creation over thousands and thousands of years.
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