Weekend Catch-Up

Let's see if I remember how to post an entry.

Friday night I met my high school friends Betsy and Linda and we drove to Lynn's house in Batavia, for dinner. We all brought a little something and it was a lot of fun. Remember how I said some time ago that I no longer think of them as high school friends but just friends? I realized Friday night that I now think of them by their married names, instead of their maiden names. Actually 4 of the 5 of us are widowed or divorced and still go by our married names.

I worked at the Clothesline, which is Rochester's oldest and largest art festival - for my friend, MJ, the glass painter. It had over 600 vendors - it's big!

It's a juried show and her first year as an exhibitor. I know she was pleased with her sales even though it was said that attendance was down from last year. Weird how things work. The weather was picture perfect. Maybe it's the overall economy?

We were both pleased her booth was in the shade! Here's what my two days looked like, from "backstage".

It's not particularly tiring work, just a long day. After dinner Steve worked in his new office (Lizz's old room, yeah, it's reeaallly orange - more pictures in the future) so I read the paper until I couldn't keep my eyes open. I tried to sleep but couldn't, for some reason, so I worked on my laptop until again, I could not keep my eyes open. That time I was able to sleep for about an hour with my faithful friend Reggi. I sort of got a second wind after that but still went to bed early since I had to get up and do it all over again the next day.

I bought 3 things but can only show you one (later this week) because the other two are Christmas gifts. Both days I did a bit of speed shopping - mainly walking down the center of each aisle, trying to take in everything from both sides. I did this because I didn't want to be away from MJ's booth very long and I really didn't want to spend any or much money. I found myself wishing I had a bottomless box of money to buy all the cool art I wanted, and the ability to work from home every day (on PTD stuff) - to enjoy my newly purchased art. There was definitely some wonderful art to be seen. I've really been taken with glass work lately, having seen a bunch of "regular people" doing variations of it on Crafters Coast to Coast.

I took Monday off so I'd have some time to do some Stefani and Pine Tree Designs work. Naturally, I didn't get as much done as I would have liked but I did make a bunch of these snowflake/holiday cards. Each snowflake is 8 pieces of a diecut glued together and foam taped to the card. The background on three out of four of those cards is stamped with Versamark ink and clear embossed. I like the bright blue cards best. I have about 6 more snowflakes to make into cards.

I ran some errands, among which was going back to the photography studio with Simon to see the proofs of his senior pictures. I'm such a sap, I had a lump in my throat by the second picture! They are just gorgeous! For those who haven't done this, they show you the proofs in a slide show format with music. (Then they give you a booklet of printed photos to take home and decide how much you are willing to spend - damn, these things are unbelievably expensive. I knew that going in, but damn. What a cornered market they have.)

I then sobbed my way through Dr. Phil, Rescuing the Rescuers. It's just unbelievable the stress these workers are under, what they have to do, what they have to witness. Dr. Phil was excellent, as always, giving good advice, appreciating what these people are enduring.

My cousin Scott is down there helping now. Please keep a good thought for him.

This is a pin I made a few days ago. A woman I went to high school with, who is on my PTD mailing list asked me how big the suncatchers were, could they be worn as a pin? So I made this smaller version - this is about 2-1/2" in diameter. You can see a wee bit of the foam tape between the two outer layers. Next time I'll just glue them together, no need for the foam tape really. But this was a prototype so it's where I figure these things out. I wore it all day Saturday and it held up beautifully, considering how dimensional it is. Didn't even get squooshed by the shoulder strap of my seat belt.

I need to go shower and get ready for work. I tried to post this entry last night but Blogger seemed to be having difficulty uploading photographs so I got frustrated and went to bed.