Well, I’m plain tired. I have had a great time the last two days being a public person and now I’m going to do my best to be a private person for at least one. My voice is really wiped out, I can talk some but I can not sing at all. I am delighted to see that the temperature went below freezing about sundown. I’m praying for a good freeze tonight to help my voice.

Saturday morning and afternoon I went to Art for the Soul. I had a great time being with my artist friends. We had fewer folks browsing this year (last year there were times it was very crowded). However, the folks who came out knew what they wanted and bought what they planned. I had a better sales day than last year, with many fewer customers. I’m not complaining. It appears that my extra planning ahead this year did indeed net me better sales. I was pleased.

I sold my eyelash boa scarves (see pic of one familiar customer who got two scarves, one for herself and one for a daughter), one set of wristwarmers, a fulled beret and a good selection of yarn. (Next picture is of Marlene Cameron who I mention here a lot… in front of her handainted silks, and our friend Nell wearing a purple beret she got from me.)

After the sale I rushed over to Foster Community Center where Ulyana was having her birthday bash. Brian and I performed for about a half hour. I couldn’t sing at all so Brian sang my most-requested song, Paper Moon. We did a few vocal pieces and a few instrumentals. It was well received.

Then I did a very short belly dance for Ulyana as well, just a little special girl-to-girl gift. She said that was the icing on the cake. It was too big a crowd and the tape player wasn’t very loud so some people didn’t see me dance, but Ulyana did and that is what counts.

I didn’t stay for the contra dance. I didn’t have dancing shoes with me, just rubber-soled boots (I did my solo dance for Ulyana barefooted but that does not work for contra dancing). I actually had been fighting a headache all day, probably from a lack of sleep in addition to the allergies, and so I headed home… well, I stopped at Altu’s restaurant for 5 minutes to congratulate Temesgen Hussein on the nice magazine article about him, and then went home. (Altu said it was busy tonight and she thought the article probably was a contributing factor… I’m glad it worked out well for both Temesgen and Altu.)

*Then* home for a cup o’tea and a hot bath. And an early bedtime for the first in a long while. I hope to sleep in tomorrow, and if I’m lucky I’ll connect with my knitting friend Tony who has been out of town for a week. I’ve been missing his company.