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2014

We are still going almost no where !  We are so busy filling all the wonderful custom orders that we have stopped doing shows at the moment. 

We will be Cracker Christmas and Alafia - but until then we at staying at home working working working.

December 6 - 7, 2014 - Cracker Christmas - Fort Christmas Historical Park in Christmas Florida 

NEW !    Check out our new Blog - www.creative-aztec.com/Blog  -

Dale started a new blog - check it out and let us know what you think.  We will try to post some of the new and exciting things that we are creating - it is awesome.

May 3, 2014 - Dale was invited to speak at the Sea Cadets meeting.  He spoke to them about his military time as well as all the interesting things that he is doing now.

January 18-25, 2014 - 43rd Annual Alafia River Rendezvous - Bartow Florida - for more information click: 

Alafia River Rendezvous  - We absolutely love this event and haven't missed in over 20 years !

January 14-27, 2013 - 42 th Annual Alafia River Rendezvous - Bartow Florida - for more information click: 

Alafia River Rendezvous  - This is a must do event - please join us for a great history experience! This is

a vacation for us  - it is so fun :}

January 14-21, 2012 - 41 th Annual Alafia River Rendezvous - Bartow Florida - for more information click: 

Alafia River Rendezvous  - This is a must do event - please join us for a great history experience! This is

a vacation for us  - it is so fun :}

January 15-22, 2011 - 40 th Annual Alafia River Rendezvous - Bartow Florida - for more information click: 

Alafia River Rendezvous  - This is a must do event - please join us for a great history experience! This is

a vacation for us  - it is so fun :}

November 5th  thru November 7th   -  AIA PowWow - Orlando at the Central Florida Fairgrounds for

more information click:  AIA of Orlando

February 26 -28, 2010  -  Big Cypress Shootout - 3rd Annual Seminole War Reenactment - located at Billie

Swamp Safari  - for more information and directions click:  Big Cypress Shootout

A very exciting and action packed event - well worth the drive!

January 13-23, 2010 - 39th Annual Alafia River Rendezvous - Bartow Florida - for more information click: 

Alafia River Rendezvous  - This is a must do event - please join us for a great history experience! This is

a vacation for us  - it is so fun :}

November 6th  thru November 8th   -  AIA PowWow - Orlando at the Central Florida Fairgrounds for

more information click:  AIA of Orlando

September 26 - 27   -  Southern Classic Gun & Knife Show - Jacksonville at the Jacksonville Fairgrounds click:

Southern Classic Gun & Knife Show

September 12 &13  -  Florida Gun & Knife Show - West Palm Beach - for information and directions click: 

Florida Gun & Knife Show

August 8 & 9  -  Suncoast Gunshow - Tampa - Florida State Fairgrounds - for more info click:  SunCoast Gun Show,

This will be our first time with this promoter - hopefully this will be a new area for us to explore!

July 18 & 19   -  Southern Classic Gun & Knife Show - Jacksonville at the Jacksonville Fairgrounds click:

Southern Classic Gun & Knife Show

July 11th & 12th  -  Buckler Craft Show - Jacksonville - for information and directions click: 

Buckler Craft Fairs - Jacksonville

May 23 & 24  -  Florida Gun & Knife Show - West Palm Beach - for information and directions click: 

Florida Gun & Knife Show 

April 25 - 26  -  High Springs Pioneer Days - High Springs Florida  for information and directions click: High Springs

Pioneer Days

We had a great time and were thrilled to see Dale's niece Tammy and her husband! What a surprise!  We also met

some new friends and enjoyed the delicious bavarian roasted pecans that they were making - it was a pleasure to set

up next to them.

April 19th - celebrate Brianna's 5th birthday and Little Craig's 4th - what a blast!

Becky had a great cake made for the event and we had all kinds of friends and family attend!

March 28th - MS walk in Cocoa  -Becky and the kids and I always walk this event - our team is called the Pink Pixies -

 to donate to this event click here Pink Pixies

I want to thank everyone that came out to support me in the MS Walk - especially my daughter Becky who organized

our team and signed up 11 people to walk with me!  Even Dale came out and walked - Thank you everyone!!!!!!

February 27 - March 1, 2009  -  Big Cypress Shootout - 2nd Annual Seminole War Reenactment - located at Billie

Swamp Safari  - for more information and directions click:  Big Cypress Shootout

A very exciting and action packed event - well worth the drive!

                                                                                         This little girl and her calf were resting

 The boy scouts were enjoying all the interesting stuff

January 13-24, 2009 - 38th Annual Alafia River Rendezvous - Bartow Florida - for more information click: 

Alafia River Rendezvous  - This is a must do event - please join us for a great history experience! This is

a vacation for us  - it is so fun :}

Boy was it a great event! I hope you were able to join us at this one. The weather actually got into the freezing

temperatures!  But that was great because then we were able to  keep the stove hot and the tent warm! 

            FROST!!                          Dale working with the school kids - they love him           

Kathy working again                                                                            Our scrap bin was the hit of the  event

Brianna had a great time                                       Little man was just wore out                                           

We couldn't keep her shoes on!                                                                                                                              

January 10, 2009 - 2008 Big Gator Shoot Out - located at Loughman's Lake Lodge off Hatbill Road in Mims

- for more information click: Big Gator Shoot Out   Hope to see you there!  - Wow - what a show this was!!!

It was fantastic - Our friend Dave took Craig and Becky out on airboat rides  - The kids wouldn't have any part of that!

Dave & Craig                      Becky and the Kids played and had a good time

          Lexy even got an airboat

   ride - isn't she beautiful!

Dale & I met a lot of new people and we will look forward to doing this show again!

December 6 & 7 - Cracker Christmas - Fort Christmas Historical Park in Christmas Florida  - As always this is

an absolutely wonderful show - The people are always the most enthusiastic about our products and the things

we are doing. This alone makes us feel rejuvenated!  Thank you everyone for your fantastic support!

November 22 & 23   -  Morocco Shrine Arts and Crafts show in Jacksonville - located at the Morocco Shrine

Auditorium , 3800 St Johns Bluff Road South, Jacksonville

CANCELLED!!!!

November 8 & 9   -  Florida Gun & Knife Show - West Palm Beach - for information and directions click: 

Florida Gun & Knife Show

October 31 thru November 2nd  -  AIA PowWow - Orlando at the Central Florida Fairgrounds for more

information click:  AIA of Orlando

What a beautiful show this was - We met some great people and had a wonderful time. I can hardly describe the

experience in words so I will share some pictures with you - enjoy!

Dale was honored by dancing in the veteran's dance -   Kathy worked and worked

Joe and Lexy came to visit for a day  -  Lexy really got into the mood!!

The other two grand kids also got to enjoy to event

Brianna is looking and looking for Papa ...........             She found him  -  Now she's happy     Little Man's always happy

Here is just a few pics of some of our friends and other colorful characters

                                                                                                    Our friend Seth                         White Wolf - awesome!

As you can see we had an absolutely wonderful time - hope you can join us next year!

October 25 & 26   -  Buckler Craft Show - West Palm Beach - for information and directions click: 

Buckler's Craft Fairs - West Palm, FL 

October 11 & 12   -  Florida Gun & Knife Show - West Palm Beach - for information and directions click: 

Florida Gun & Knife Show

October 4 & 5   -  Southern Classic Gun & Knife Show - Orlando at the Central Florida Fairgrounds click:

Southern Classic Gun & Knife Show

September 20 & 21   -  Southern Classic Gun & Knife Show - Jacksonville at the Jacksonville Fairgrounds click:

Southern Classic Gun & Knife Show

September 13 & 14  -  Morocco Shrine Arts and Crafts show in Jacksonville - located at the Morocco Shrine

Auditorium , 3800 St Johns Bluff Road South, Jacksonville

August 30 - 31 -  Florida Gun & Knife Show - Melbourne - for information and directions click: 

Florida Gun & Knife Show

August 23 - 23  -  Southern Classic Gun & Knife Show - Orlando at the Central Florida Fairgrounds click:

Southern Classic Gun & Knife Show

August 9 - 10  -  Florida Gun & Knife Show - West Palm Beach - for information and directions click: 

Florida Gun & Knife Show

July 12th - 13th  -  Buckler Craft Show - Jacksonville - for information and directions click: 

Buckler Craft Fairs - Jacksonville

We were very surprised that Jacksonville was such a nice place. It is pratically in our backyard and we have

never gone just to visit.  This was our first show in the Jacksonville area and we seem to be well received. 

We felt blessed to be invited to attend future shows in the Jacksonville area. The facilities were great.  We walked

a little bit around some of the historic sites and were very impressed and would love to go back to investigate the

area further.  I am certain we will return to this area soon!

July 5 - 6   -  Florida Gun & Knife Show - West Palm Beach - for information and directions click: 

Florida Gun & Knife Show

We always enjoy visiting West Palm Beach - the facilities there are great.  We had a very good show at this event. 

Dale met some very exciting people and we made new friends and also got to meet with some current customers

of ours.  Now we can put a face to a name!  Dale sold one of his treasured items at this show - His sword that he

crafted out of a swordfish bill - here is a picture -It was totally awesome!   He made the hand guard out of alligator

back and also created a custom alligator back scabbard  - It was incredible.  He was very please that a nice young

man fell in love with it and had to have it - We believe he will treasure it as much as we did!

June 21-22 - Florida Gun & Knife show - Deland- for information and directions click:  Florida Gun & Knife Show

This was our first foray into the Gun & Knife show venue and we seem to be well received by both our fellow vendors

and the public that attend the shows.  Dale is adapting some of our line of handbags to include places for concealed

weapons holsters and what-not.  He is a very creative character and can think of a lot of different unique items and gifts.

 You will have to come and check it out some time - you will be pleasantly surprised - I can guarantee that!

June 12 - 15 - Festival Bay Mall - Orlando - for information and directions click: Fesitval Bay Mall

I don't have any photos of this mall - but it was a very interesting place to go. It has a really neat skate park

in it as well as some things for the kids to play on.  We had a very good show and met alot of new friends. 

June 7 - 8 John Levique Pirate Days 2008 - Madeira Beach - for information and directions click: 

John Levique Pirate Days 2008

Madeira Beach is an absolutely beautiful place!  We stayed at the KOA and enjoyed it so much we would

love to go back and just visit the area for awhile.  Below are a few pictures of the event - it was really different -

quite a lot of interesting characters! Take a look -

Look at this daper group!                                               We still are not sure about these pirates -

These two gentlemen make awesome puppets -                I bet you have never seen a boat sailing down the road!

you must check them out at Fantasy Puppets

Dale's little grand niece Amber -                                 

sure made a cutsie pirate -                                         Dale looks pretty good as well - he can capture me anytime!! 

                                                                                                                              ARGGGGGG

May 16 - 18  -  Buckler Craft Show - West Palm Beach - for information and directions click: 

Buckler's Craft Fairs - West Palm, FL 

West Palm Beach is always a wonderful place for us to visit.  We had a great show and as a bonus - we got

to go to a concert.  The Police were playing on Saturday night so Dale and I got tickets for the lawn area and

enjoyed the show!  We met some really neat people that were standing next to us, and believe it or not, they

were actually parked right next to our motorhome.  We hope to get to meet up with them again!

May 7 - 13 - Vacation in the Keys!  - WOW

    It was absolutely awesome!  and certainly relaxing.  We spent alot of time on the boat - just fishing and floating. 

We always stay at Long Key State Park.  It is a great place to camp.  We saw a lot of sea turtles out in the water -

that was fantastic to see them swimming and when they come up for air they turn a look at you and then dive down again. 

We caught a few sharks as well. One wouldn't let go of the fish!

What a peaceful picture!

Here's Dale getting ready to walk out and drop some shark

bait - in the water - in the dark - How brave!

May 3 -4 - Buckler Craft Show - Deland - for information and directions click : Buckler's Craft Fairs - Deland, FL

Another great Buckler show.  It was a nice facility.

April 26 - 27  -  High Springs Pioneer Days - for information and directions click: 

Pioneer Days - High Springs, Florida

I really loved the town of High Springs!  It is certainly a place a would visit again.  We thought all the people were

extremely nice and the atmosphere was just like we like it.  Very hometown feel to the area.  We don't have any

pictures of anything - Believe it or not - we brought both of the cameras -but left the card and the tape at home!  

We were set up right in the middle of main street and it was great!.  There are a lot of antique shops all around

and I would love to go back there just to shop.  We actually even won an award! -1st place for the Most Unusual

and Different - can you believe it!  We were very honored to be chosen.  Thanks to all the people that organized

this show - it was great and we certainly will be back next year.

April 18 - 20  -  Buckler Craft Show - Fort Myers - for information and directions click: 

Buckler's Craft Fairs - Ft. Myers, FL

We had a great time in Fort Myers.  We really enjoyed the facilities and were able to camp by the water.

  It was great.  We are definitely coming back in August.  We also met a really neat person - He is a retired

Police Officer named Gary.  He was a real pleasure to talk to and we hope to see him again at the next show.

April 4th - TitusNites Street Party

Titusville hosts a street party once a month and this month the theme was a 50's sop hop.  We set up our

display and talked to many people and enjoyed the 50's music and watched all of the hula hoopers. 

The weather even cooperated.

March 29 - North Brevard Historical Museum Fund Raiser

We spent the day out at Fox Lake for a bar B Que fund raiser for the local museum. We met a lot of nice people

and certainly enjoyed our lunch

March 15 - 16 - BlueGrass Festival - Christmas, Florida - for information and directions click- Fort Christmas

We had a great time at the Blue Grass Festival - the weather was perfect and so was the music -

March 1-2  Buckler Craft Show - Lakeland  - for information and directions click:

Buckler's Craft Fairs - Lakeland, FL

We enjoyed our test of the Lakeland market - nice area - we actually camped out in the parking lot - very convenient!

FEB 22-24 - BIG CYPRESS SHOOT OUT -  It was held at Billie's Swamp Safari.  There was an awesome Seminole

Indian War Reenactment as well as AtlAtl throws, alligator shows and much more.  You must mark your calendar

for next year's event - You shouldn't miss it.  We saw all kinds of Indians on horseback and government soldiers. 

They even fired off the canons - they were LOUD!  You can get directions to the event and view the dates and times

at their website :    Big Cypress Shootout

February 7th thru February 11th - Gem and Mineral Show in Tucson, Arizona - What a fabulous experience!

We flew from Orlando, Florida to Tucson on Thursday the 7th. We stayed at the Radisson Suites in Tucson and

spent the next 3 1/2 days riding on Shuttle buses all over the Tucson area to different shows. We were able to

gather a large amount of raw materials to work with and had a great time in the process.

Kathy and I had a great time at the Rio Grande

Exhibit - looking at all the tools and stuff was the best!

The next stop was the enormous amount of raw material available - it was everywhere you look!

January 16 - January 27th - Alafia River Rendezvous - What an event!! For almost 2 weeks we were able to camp out in pre 1840 style - it was like going back in time. You certainly come away with a new appreciation for the hardships that our forefathers faced when attempting to explore new territories! Kathy and I had a wonderful time. We have attended this event every year for the last 12 years. It is held every year in January at the Florida Frontiersmen's land in Homeland Florida - which is just west of Bartow. If you ever want to attend - check out their website at www.floridafrontiersmen.org. You won't believe your eyes! below are a few pictures of this wonderful event!

The Creative Aztec Family - and Kathy taking a nap all warm and cozy!

Inside our tent and a view looking at the back

The Indians really give a wonderful show

Dale taught seminars to hundreds of school children on Thursday.

One of our new found friends - Ed explained the Sioux Medicine Wheel to us