Remaining Shows....

Looks like we only have a few shows left for the year, where has it gone?? We leave for Nashville, TN next week for the Christmas Village Show. At the same time, my sister will run our booth at the St. Luke's Methodist Church show in Indianapolis on the 14th. That's a nice, one day show, if you've never been. Rich has completed Carson-Newman & Freed-Hardeman, both in TN; he's got so many to complete before Christmas. He's also been working on an idea for our booth, so that will be ready for the Nashville show. I'm working on cat portraits and organizing things for the shows. Must paint and feed cats.....;) rebecca

Off to Chantilly

Leaving for Chantilly, VA for Gilmore Craftsmen show this weekend. It's dreary out and being indoors at a show will be nice. We will be going there with more new schools. Siena College, Mount Holyoke, Univ. of Oregon, Univ. of Washington, Washington State, Regis and several more. I lose count! We recently made a trip to Nashville, TN and Wichita, KS and did schools along the way. Soon, very soon, we'll have Un. of TN @Chattanooga; Carson-Newman and Lee Univ. in TN; Tabor, Friends & Southwestern in KS will be later.......

What's new....

A few schools are done: Oregon State University. Hanover College has been revised and is done; Bellarmine University has been revised and is done. Regis College is done. Problem is, there are about 25 more new ones waiting to be printed....

We will be at the Chauttauqua Arts Festival in Madison, IN this weekend. Let's hope the weather holds out and it doesn't rain on us. Our booths are on Broadway, a few booths down from the information tent, in the middle of the street. I think our booth numbers are #808 and #807...

The Mellwood show last weekend in Louisville wasn't so good. For one thing, with it being the same weeekend as Penrod now, we won't do it again because of that. Penrod is SO good that we can't slight it again by doing 2 shows at one time. We were a little tired after that weekend!

Penrod

We're getting ready for Penrod, which is Sept. 12. At the same time, we'll have a booth at the new September Art Fair at Mellwood (Mellwood Art Center) in Louisville, KY.

Vacation......

Guess I know what Rich will be doing on vacation....He has about 16 universities and colleges to put together! Even more waiting to be developed so that he has the photos to work with. Cord Camera loves him! He probably takes between 100 - 200 photos per school...then fits them altogether to get the final image for the print. He enjoys the process, he does it all manually, laying it out by hand, he's a visual type of guy. People ask if he does it all by photo shop, and I have to tell them that he doesn't do much with a computer, he barely knows how to turn one on...and does not type well at all.....

Mission accomplished!

As promised, we have just returned from the trip which took us through 6 states, including N&S Dakota and we walked 13 schools. I will include them in the list to the right. Remember, these won't be completely done for awhile, but some will be done before Christmas. Everything went pretty smoothly, it only rained one day....if you need rain, just ask us to visit, it seems to follow us around. Rich caught a cold so he wasn't feeling great through most of the trip. A lot of road construction and also construction on the schools that we visited. There are fewer students walking the campus in the summer but a lot of rebuilding going on.

Next Trip

Our next trip is scheduled. We're going to North & South Dakota. This is new territory for us, having never been there. When this is accomplished, we will have been in 48 states. Along the way, we'll add some more schools in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota. I will list the schools later.