Bert Simons, Paper Artist

.Look at this amazing work by Bert Simons.

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I received my first 2009 craft event application in the mail this week and I'm ecstatic. This is for the boutique that the Jr League of Buffalo holds in conjunction with it's fundraising Decorators' Show House. One of the women approached me at the Jr League of Rochester show in October. I was just on their website the day before the application arrived, wondering what their timeline was and if I should contact them. It's a consignment deal, April 25 - May 17.

Their jurying day is January 31. Artists are to set up their pieces in their assigned display place in the morning, leave for the jurying process and come back that afternoon to pick up their stuff. When I spoke with the woman in October she said I could ship my product there for the month the boutique is set up. But Steve and I will make a road trip of the jury day. I'm scheduled to see a play at Geva with my friends but we can reschedule that.

I do have one other definite show scheduled for 2009, the School 46 show the first Saturday in December, because I signed up for that at the 2008 show. But I've been feeling kind of antsy about not having anything else scheduled, even though we're only 1 week into the new year!

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The day job has been a bit challenging this week and I finally figured out why. I'm not having fun. I generally like my job a lot but sometimes the tasks are just so dull. The Illinois sales tax auditor is back for the week so today I'm going in early to get the mind-numbing task of printing 450 invoices for him, behind me. We aren't registered to file in IL yet so this process is more tedious that usual - he's helping us get caught up and figure out which customers we need to charge tax, etc. He's a very nice man, it's pretty painless. But tedious. Did I mention it's tedious?

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