Frames, kitties, and jewelry oh my!

Faithfully following my golden brick road of checklists today (I'm not sure that makes sense... but I have to stick with the post title somehow), I actually got a bunch of stuff done for my craft show next weekend! Chief among these were the frames I put together as parts of my new display in my booth. My cats were super helpful, as you can see below. Just so chipper and inspiring... not only with the composition of my photos, but as stand in models for some shoots I want to take in the future. They're so brilliant *sniff* I'm just so proud of them!

First, the frames:


Faustus helping me take pictures:


And finally Mika, too tired to argue. This is vengeance for when he jumps on my head in the morning to poke me with his wet nose:

I have been working on more than these...

... but I've been more focused on the makin' and less on the photos. I'll remedy that, one day, dear friends.

I made these frames for my booth display yesterday. They were a great buy at an antique store up in Clintonville. The plan is to dangle them on either side of my tent, inside the new walls I've purchased, so it'll look like I've got jewelry instead of paintings on the walls. I'm excited to see it in action! And slightly anxious to see that it works. But how could hanging an antique picture frame from a velcroed tent wall with lots of earrings on it go wrong?

After putting these babies together I went to see David Sedaris speak at the Book Loft. Well, more like listened, we were all packed in and back where my friend C and I were we couldn't really see him. But it was still hillarious. One of my favorite stories involved a woman who taught the special ed classes at high school, and Sedaris asked her "Aren't they mostly just assholes, like, isn't that why they're in special ed?" "Exactly," she agreed, then went on to describe how on the last day of school one of the kids had written that she was a "Cockmaster" on the board, and she was just happy he spelled it right.

Hehehe.