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This week has been a tough one. It started off pretty good, I got watch my niece and nephew, make a little art, get some feedback on a commission that I'd given up on ever getting. I met a customer at the store that looks like me in about 20+ years. That was pretty cool. She is a bohemian, lived in NY, adamantly refuses being labeled a hippy (yuck), makes sculptural jewelery that you can wear-- sells vintage jewelery. Dresses like me, but shorter and with shorter hair. It was cool meeting her.
But it quickly went downhill from there.
Women's lives are so filled with complexity and hormones and any number of things that we feel we need to take on and "fix" or do. These things have a way of quickly adding up, taking over every other portion of our lives and the next thing we know, we are having to fight off the pile of crap that we have agreed (somehow) to take on.
Don't you wish you could be a two year old again, running around saying "NO!!' no no nononononononoooooooo!!" hee heeee! NO.
no, I won't do that for you. no, I won't apologize. no, I won't do your work for you. no, I won't make dinner. no, I don't want to listen to you. no, I won't wear your shirt. no, I don't have any ideas for you. no, I don't want to plan your weekend for you. no, I don't want to support your endeavors while I let mine wait. no, i don't want to do work that you are not going to pay me for. I don't want to wait in your line, I don't want to bake your cake, I don't want to hear you whine (again), I don't really care to clean up your mistake, either.
Nope. I'm not really sorry for it--soooooo... just no.

I'm posting a recent work that is in a show that closes this evening. This show had the best title, "Curio", and I'm sorry that it is closing because it is the best title for a show that has included my work.
I hope you all can practice your two-year old "no's" I no I will be...

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I can't believe that it is already July!
I've been super busy sewing with SarahLou these past couple of months. We just participated in our first fashion show. It was so much fun!! It was also extremely stressful. I'm still trying to recover from it, I think. All of that work and worry, for what felt like one minute of show. It felt so professional walking down the runway after our models and waving to the audience while all of the flashbulbs from the photographers went off. But now that 's over and poor SarahLou is still looking for a proper home! Keep checking back for photos or video from the event. I'm looking for anyone who has images from that night. There were a bajillion photographers and videographers, but nobody has surfaced with images from that night. yet.

I've also applied to and heard back from New York Academy of Art regarding attending there for graduate school. I was accepted!! and now I have to come up with the money for attendance. UG! more stress. I'm really excited, though and I hope that I can come up with funds. Living in New York for two years would be so exciting! I've a few ideas regarding different (creative) ways to find money for school including selling everything I have. So if you want to purchase artwork, either existing or future works, let me know. I also have a house full of kitschy stuff which might end up on ebay. FUN!!

I know you're wondering if I've any time to actually paint any more. Well, yes I do and I'm actually working (very slowly) on a new watercolor. Now that the fashion show is over, it should be finished very soon, so keep on the lookout for new artwork in the next couple of weeks!!

Until then, take care. And wish me luck.