Saturday, September 29, 2012

frosting, an award & a roadie wedding.

this year has been full of travel. A couple of weeks ago, Drew & I travelled to Neil's for a short visit, we herded bees and cats and authors. As related in this very blog, there was a frosting-the-Scalzi ceremony, based on a twitter bet. Kyle Cassidy made a gorgeous spooky poster out of the bet session, and they have now arrived in the treehouse.

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We will be shipping them out this week. The proceeds go for a good cause, rescuing kitties and helping authors. FIND THEM HERE & THEY ARE ONLY TEN BUCKS!

behind the scenes, at the photoshoot:

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here is @Fablor with her team of fearless rollerpeoples:

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me n' Neil:

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here is Drew with sweetheart Coconut, just before he got the call that put him back out on the road.

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Drew left on tour as soon as we got home, the very next morning. We found out that he had a few days off in San Francisco, so I flew up to see him.

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he's wearing his "Make Good Art" warmy fleecy hat, we still have a few of them left HERE.

Flew back from San Francisco, in time to fly to DC to take my parents to see Neil get his Mason Award. Backstage shot of him pre-signing the stacks, with volunteer Greg.

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Before the award presentation, he spoke from the heart on writing, reading, supporting libraries, and Doctor WHO. He read from his shiny-penny-new manuscript The Ocean at the End of the Lane. (TELL ME: what DID happen to the kitten!?!) After a revealing Q&A session, he told a story that I honestly keep reviewing in my head, a scary story, a monster-y story, a click-clack story. Damn, he's good.

Danth Guyth was there, always so good to see that man, we ever-so-briefly chatted on the Fiddlers Green2 specs, also Neverwear website. (much work there to be done on both fronts) I also got to meet the father-in-law, Amanda's dad, what a doll.

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As we left, I stopped my beloved parents on the stage for a photo.

Photobucket Timing is everything, I also attending the wedding of dear friends from my touring life at a pheasant farm in Amish country, PA. Just as the ceremony began, I took this little film of a perfectly timed flying V of birds right over our heads...

tomorrow, I see Husband at Meriweather Post for lunch with my brother & parents. Life is so good.

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Frosted authors....

Apparently there was a bet...upon the Twitter...involving cake frosting and John Scalzi and followers and Derby girls... here are some behind the scenes of the actual frosting of young Scalzi when we were all at Neil's a couple of weeks ago...

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See Kyle talk about the shooting of:

THIS IS A CHARITY DRIVE FOR KYLE'S FAVORITE KITTY-SAVING CHARITY: CITYKITTIES

ALSO TO BE SPLIT EQUALLY WITH JOHN SCALZI'S PERSONAL CAUSE: FUND FOR UNINSURED WRITERS

I am just helping them out by shipping it to the adoring masses-- we have only 300 of these 11" x 17" beauties-- and since @Scalzi reached his 30,000th follower--hmmmm ONLY Ten measly American dollars each!! which goes all to helping kitties and authors...two of my favorite things.

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They have just been ordered, they should be here in 10 days or so, but I am making a link now, so that Kyle can announce. GET YOUR POSTER HERE. PS. we have sold out of the block font MAKE GOOD ART hats already, but I do have some of the cursive font left, in a buttery fleece hat. (frosting sold seperately)HAT LINK HERE.

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Saturday, September 1, 2012

the first hats are here----

oh, the truth in this three word statement....

"make good art."

this is one of the main messages pulled from Neil's powerful commencement address in May 2012 to the graduating class of the University of the Arts in Pennsylvania... words for the artist in us all.

I wanted to wear this little verse and so i thought, maybe a little black knit hat, with the words embroidered in a ghostly white thread. We went back and forth on the font, the lettering, how to present it. Neil, in his wisdom, said, put it to a vote. And so we did. The block font prevailed in the tumblr universe, almost two to one.

and look how cute they turned out! the embroidery is almost a moonshine silver-white, fitting for our blue moon last night...

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GET IT HERE.

SPECIAL: FOR THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND ONLY (UNTIL MONDAY NIGHT)

buy the hat and get all these stickers (& lime bookmark) thrown in free--- as shown! (**people who have already ordered these sweet little beanies, you are getting the stickers, no worry)

if you haven't seen Neil's commencement speech, do yourself a favor-- watch, and be forever moved.

Neil Gaiman Addresses the University of the Arts Class of 2012 from The University of the Arts (Phl) on Vimeo.