I did make it to both the Meet the Pros and the Art Show reception last night and chatted with several friends for a while. At the latter, I was surprised to discover that two of my pieces--the jackalope and the tortoiseshell--had bids already ( Read more... )

Packed this morning and finished the jackalope, then left a bit before 12:30 to drive up to Westchester for Lunacon. It took about an hour, with the usual slowdown on the Hutchinson River Parkway. Set up my tables in the art show right away; I had asked for one and a half and was given two because the half next to me was going begging and they didn ( Read more... )

Today has been good so far. I got up in time to do another craft workshop, on making fabric rosettes. Mine is decorated with ribbons and beads. This is something I might do more of in future, if I have a need/use for them ( Read more... )

(I tried to post yesterday, but the hotel wifi was so slow that I couldn't get anywhere. Right now, I'm one of the few people up, so it's less clogged ( Read more... )

Got a check today from the Boskone Art Show. They refunded half the entry fees to artists who cancelled because of the weather.

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Got home from Lunacon about an hour ago. I'm all unpacked and started doing laundry. (Whoops, gotta go hang the first load. Be right back ( Read more... )

Awoke this morning to a fire alarm--false alarm, fortunately, same as the one yesterday evening, apparently caused (somehow) by hotel renovations. After a big breakfast at the buffet, I picked up my badge (finally!) and got a bidder number for the art show. I then preceded to bid on several things, committing myself to spending lots of money if not ( Read more... )

Finished the prep for my art demo earlier than expected, so I was able to leave just after 1:00. (Could have left even earlier, but that seemed excessive.) Checked into my room, put my stuff in the art show, picked up my programming schedule, but no badges available yet. They were advising people to just go to their panels and worry about badges ( Read more... )

Up early this morning, breakfast buffet (disappointingly, no omelet station, but the made-to-order chocolate chip pancakes were good), then checked out of the room and left my bag at the bell station. I sat and read for a while until the art show opened at 10:00--another bid, on one of the tribbles; the total on the three so far covered my table/ ( Read more... )

I had two panels today: another YA panel, which went very well, and my suggestion How Do Books Get on the Shelves?, which only had one and a half people in the audience. As one of my fellow panelists put it before anyone showed up, Sunday afternoon is a bad time--but all of the panels can't be on Saturday. We held the panel anyway and had a good ( Read more... )