Geez! …an update…someday? maybe?

Nearly six months have passed, and no update. Why, you ask? Mostly because I just have not really been willing to give it the time necessary, which now means It will take forever…so….

in brief…

1.finished most of the Barker’s order..they love it. Pictures coming soon.
2.Bert and I are just friends.
3.Bristol was great. Pictures here.
4.I reconnected with a really good friend(John) during Bristol, and began dating.
5.Spent three weeks in OH and MD between shows with John. Absolute Magic. Pictures on Flickr here and here.
6.Got TRF set up, and the show started.
7.John came for a visit, and we went to Galveston. Pictures coming soon.
8.John proposed to me in the Elissa! OMG!
8.b) I said yes…OMG!
9.TRF is going well.
10….

Okay, that is mostly all the big points of interest. I now have a newer computer, and have just moved my pictures over, so I will be keeping up with the updates.

Have questions ask. Love you all

Sewing away with a deadline

This is what has consumed nearly all my time, since I got back from GA. This is some of the detail work from Keith Barker’s doublet. I am making he and his wife Shirley full Elizabethan outfits, and I am trying to get at least one full set of pieces finished for delivery on my way to Bristol. That way I can teach them how to wear all the pieces, and then can come dressed on opening weekend. That is the goal. Of course I am a detail oriented person and I tend to go out of my way to create complicated stuff. All this means that I might not get much sleep in the next week and a half as I strive for my goal. *grin*
Also, we all know I work better under pressure. -sigh- I am silly.
I will soon be on my way to MB’s house to pick up the last beads I need for his doublet. After that all the beading may be done for now, and I can get to the nitty-gritty of just assembling.
Wish me luck! *grin*

Back in Te-jas

The final weeks at Georgia were hot and muggy. It was an interesting dance between get up early work, find something else to do in the heat…movies, and then come back around 8 to work some more. Georgia..*shrug* At least it did not rain either of the last two weekends. The final week end was nice, and not too hot. On the final day there was the gathering of all the Georgia Musketeers. These boys have been buying from us for years, and they started their own little group which has around a dozen members, all with Excalibur hats, and these gorgeous wool capes that they had made especially for them. On this day they came galloping up on stick horses; the whole troop of them.

I always enjoy seeing the people that I only get to see at Georgia, and I am always sorry to leave them. This year, there was meeting new people, that are destined to be long and wonderful friends, and reconnecting with old friends in new and exciting ways. I am also always glad to leave though. The show is just getting more and more depressing, and they told several performers that due to budget cuts, they were not going to be able to afford them anymore. Interesting. I hope this is not a recurring theme this year.

Now I am back in Texas, and my first full day back was Saturday. What does that mean? Rahr, of course! So a bunch of people came out to the brewery on a muggy hot day, and we happily drank away at the excellent beer, then on to mexican for lunch. It was a very good day.

Now I am at home beading, beading, beading. I am hoping to finish most if not all the pieces for Keith and Shirley Barker in the next three weeks. My goal is to have all the beadwork done by this weekend, so I can start assembly next week. I am doing pretty well so far. Here are a couple of pics of that. I will be updating their entry on Waisted Efforts also.

SO that is what I have been up to. Weeeee!

Catching up

This is Bella caught in the feather box.

I have finally figured out that using Facebook takes some of the impetus to blog away. Not good.

So updating. It was wet, with some wet, and then it rained some. There were several beautiful days during the weeks, and then more rain… you get the idea.

Memorial Day weekend was very wet. I had my fitting with the Barkers which went swimmingly. (pun intended)
I will be updating their stuff on Waisted Efforts soon.

This past weekend it was finally dry, and low and behold, we had a decent weekend. This weekend looks to be dry as well, and it is simply gorgeous out right now. I am looking forward to this show being OVER!!! I will of course miss my friends that are here and the ones I only get to see here, but it has been a long two months alone, and I am over it for a few weeks.

I will soon be back in TX for 3 weeks before heading to Bristol.

I have some very wonderful people in my life and I am thankful for all of them, always.

i love you

In a word…wet

What do you call a beautiful day after two rainy ones in GA? Monday.

It poured all weekend, and somehow I still managed to do some business. It was Highland weekend and that always helps.

Here is rain on one of our signs.

Even in the pouring rain the local Pipe and Drum Band still played. I could never remember to take a picture of them until this little event occurred.

These are 4 of the pet musketeers that we have here. You can see that 3 of them love Excal’s stuff. They are skipping along behind the pipe band in the rain. I could not get my camera fast enough, so you just see the last of the drummers. This weekend will be gorgeous…I hope. Positive attraction! Come on beautiful weekend!

Still here…

With Kids Days (daze) last week, and a horrible wet slow weekend, accompanied with ongoing internet issues, I have just not had the patience to post an update.

Kids Days went as expected, slow, and with some rain. Amazingly the deluge held off till just after all the kids had left. Lucky for them, it was a gulley-washer.

Last weekend, our forecast was ever-changing and it was Mother’s Day. Hopefully that is all it was and the nose dive our sales took was a fluke.

After school on Sunday Casey from Barely Balanced and her friend from Breaking Point(can’t remember his name) played with the great dane Chewbacca, that lives 2 doors down.

It was very amusing as he was nearly as big as the two acrobats, and probably outweighed both of them.

Afterward dinner was quick and easy, made be Rhonni, and enjoyed by friends. We are all hoping for a better weekend coming up.

I need to get to sewing as I have the Barkers coming for a visit in a couple of weeks over Memorial Day. So off to work I go.

Here is one last picture of the booth next door.

Cinco de Mayo

My post really has very little to do with Cinco de Mayo, but that is what today is, so there you have it.

This is Brian down from the Maryland show. I thought he so impressive that I just had to have a picture of him. Ha and his wife were both very sweet and bought things from me both days. This 3rd weekend was awful. The weather did not cooperate, and so the numbers reflected it. This week is Kids Daze. Not looking forward to that. Oh well. They end at 2:30. I should still be able to get some work down. The Barkers will be here in a little over 2 weeks!

For Cinco de Mayo my friend Dreagn and I went for Mexican in Tyrone. It was busy, the food was good and the margaritas cheap. After a short and immensely unsuccessful attempt to make a Kodak photo machine print pictures, ( never trust them, sucking vorticity of wasted time!) we went to Publix to procure the fixins for this weeks potluck. The theme is South O’ the Border. I am making margaritas; he is being cagey, so I have no idea. I can’t remember what Rhonni does. She is coming back form TX and Mexico, so maybe she have something new!

I hope everyone enjoys their Margaritas safely and with great joy.

The BEST farmer’s market ever!

It would almost be worth moving to GA for…well almost.

Ethnically diverse, and a joy to shop; although remember a jacket. Which I did not today. I went to Your Dekalb Farmers Market today to pick up the fish for my ceviche. This week’s theme for the potluck was Island Seafood, so my ceviche was a good choice. I use sushi tuna, this time yellowtail, to make mine because it will always taste good even if it cannot “cook” very long. This batch got about 5 hours.
I love going to this market! There is so much to shop, and so many good things to choose from. The fresh fish and seafood section is huge, and very fresh. There is a whole cafeteria section with hot and cold food to eat that is made form the goodies in the store its self. Today I brought back ginger-apricot steamed beets, lamb curry, Egyptian lentils, and friend plantains; as an example. They have an enormous wine and beer selection, and an amazing variety of oils, teas, vinegars, pastas, dried everything…. The list can really just go on and on. It is just so well done. Please check out their site if you are curious about more information on how they utilize immigrants on their staff, and their recycling program. I wish there was one of these in all the cities I travel to.

Now lets get started

I know you all must get sick of sunrises and sunsets from me while I am in GA, but they are really so beautiful. Around my booth is more open here than in Bristol or TRF. So with that preamble…

This is the sunset on Sunday night as we were having wine, and talking.

Ruth Thompson’s booth next to mine, is so damn cute I have to work to not photograph it. Today I gave in. The early light brings outthe colors.

Monday, Rhonni and I spent the day out. We stimulated the economy, and did laundry. We never once though had the energy to go work out. This morning, that is our goal. Get in a work out, and then get here to get back to work. Rhonni is leaving for TX on Thursday for a week of food meetings, grove feeding, and of course a booty call. *grin* So she has a pile of stuff to get ready so she can ignore it a week.

I on the otherhand, need to set-up my workshop. I did not want expensive machines laying around to have things dropped on them, and have crap sprinkled into them, so it is all just bare tables still. Today, that will change! I need to start sewing, and I will get my space all arranged and useful today. The Bert fixed a table for me that MB got me as a present and I am anxious to try it out. It has a little hinged tray that folds up and down as a pedestal for the machine. Bert finagled it to be deep enough for my machine with the high-tech addition of two 2×4s. It is an enormous work area. I look forward to not having the larger pieces like skirts yank themselves out of the machine any longer from a lack of support. Yea!

With that I am off to sweat!

Fair Day

It was hot, breezy, humid, and second weekend. Need I really say more?

UGH

-and no picture dammit-
-sigh-