Thursday Night

On Thursday, Sandra had her 2nd annual spring recital for her piano students. They all did exceptionally well, with very few mistakes. 15 students played; her adult student begged leave to be otherwise engaged that night. I would post pictures, except that I haven't got any, because I skipped out on it myself. Mark and I had a previous engagement with the Misko's, namely, to see Stefan's school play of Don Quixote. The play was comically transcribed by one of the teachers, the music was played by a fantastic guitarist who played for over 2 solid hours,and the play was performed entirely by the 15 seniors, and 1 of the people's-in-charge daughter, who played all 3 of the female roles. The 16th senior built the set, and moved the props around.



Anyway, they did a very good job, without any major slip-ups, and very few minor ones. Don probably had an hour of recitation himself, and didn't make a single mistake as far as I could tell. Sancho only made 1 very slight mistake; he had almost as many lines, and just as much acting; think I liked his role better.



I think it would be interesting to see a play performed by people you know. To see your friends take on completely different personalities (successfully, I mean). I don't count the church skits we did with Acteens as plays. The longest sketch we did was only about 1/2 hour, and, let's face it, it's pretty hard to find yourself captivated by the character of Gruffy the Bear, that is played by a girl in a brown cape, with ears sewn on the hood, or a first century shepherd wearing sunglasses, to disguise the fact that they also played an IRS agent. (Yes, it was a very strange play.)

Blogging and Letters

I think I've got to try a new approach to blogging. Well, not new, really, it's how I started out, but lost somewhere along the way. Reading over my recent posts, I've found there is a lot to be desired, and while that's partly from being busy, and not putting the same amount of time into it, it's also from forgetting that I'm writing to people, not just a computer screen.

I started blogging to keep in touch with people, without having to write letters about every insignificant detail that comes up, most of which I feel aren't worth $0.44 to hear. I also prefer blogging over letters because people don't feel obliged to read a blog every time there is a new post like they do when they receive a letter, (at least, I always feel guilty when ignoring emails - never ignored a letter:) so they only read when they feel like hearing from you, and are therefore more likely to enjoy the post, even if it's only a monologue about a person's preference of blogging over letter-writing.

Not that I don't enjoy letter writing; I still am thrilled when ever I receive something in the mail, (no doubt I will get over this when I start getting bills), and still have several pen-pals.


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Featured, again!

I found out this morning that I was again featured on someone's blog, about a regency dress I sold a couple of months ago. This woman buys lots of doll clothes, and always features them on her blog, and has quite a large following. Anyway, here is a link to the article:
the doll wardrobe.

I've really got to get my camera fixed, so I can work on getting my pictures better.

Gift Shop

I haven't listed anything in my Etsy store recently, which is nothing new, but is usually just because I was too lazy to make anything new. This time, I had a legitimate excuse; I was making things for somewhere else, the Gift Shop of the Noyes Museum of Art, to be exact.

In April, someone from the Museum's gift shop contacted me, saying that they were looking for new inventory for their gift shop, and they wanted to feature items made in New Jersey (the museum is located just outside of Atlantic City). I did a little research since I had never heard of them before, and found out that they are affiliated with the Richard Stockton College. Richard Stockton was one of the representatives from New Jersey that signed the Declaration of Independence. (Which had absolutely no bearing on whether or not I would consign with them, it just added to my stock of useless information.)

I contacted one of the other sellers on Etsy who sells their products there, made a few new books, and shipped them out. Now, it's a very small Museum as far as I can tell, and I'm not expecting a monstrous rise in sales, but it is a venue to get my name out, and it sounds good to say that you have your items in a gift shop, particularly in a Museum!

So, that is my exciting news I've been keeping to myself for the past month!

And speaking of sounding good, I have determined I no longer sell doll clothes. When ever you tell someone you sell doll clothes, they give you a little sympathetic smile and say, 'oh, isn't that nice'. So now I 'design and sell historically inspired miniature wardrobes'. And if you want to see pictures, I started a page over on the left that has pictures of all the dresses I have sold in the past year, and will be updated every time I make a sale. Looking at those pictures, I'm amazed I sold some of them. Some of my pictures are horrible! I wish I was a photographer!