I personally spent a good amount of my free time from staffing in Artist Alley, more specifically at Cathy's table. It's pretty fun to chat to random people walking by. I looked around at the other tables as well but spent most of my money in the dealer's room (who didn't? lol)
I do have to say that it was a bit unnerving to see the group of people running back and forth. I know they bumped into an artist table or two and didn't seem to hear me the first time I asked them to stop running.
but yeah, this is pretty much a shout out to all the amazing artists we had there this year ^-^ keep up the good artwork.