Jiggywinks!

I was just paid $20 to embroider a child's name on a tai kwan do uniform. It turned out okay, but don't do what I did--go buy a protractor and actually measure the angles! I did a little bit of general measuring to make sure I drew the letters about the same size and spaced them out a bit evenly, but for the love of mike I just lucked out. Four rows of chain stitch in black, instead of the more traditional satin stitch. Not only was it faster, but it will be easier to rip out when it's the sibling's turn to wear the jacket (the real reason for embroidery as opposed to a black magic marker). Cost: Nothing to me, I had black floss laying around. $20 for my time.

Greetings Lovely People! The big question (for whoever ends up reading this blog) is why such the big gap? Did I not work on any projects? The answer is of course I did! Since July of 2019, I was cast as Christine Penmark in MTG's "The Bad Seed", a 1950s horror-type play about a young mother whose world spirals out of control when she realizes there's something sinister about her 8-year-old daughter Rhoda. So, I was busy rehearsing my first lead role (!) until the show ran for the first two weekends of October. Not only that, but I was busy with preparations for MTG's "Beauty and the Beast", which is scheduled to run the first two weekends of December. At first I was stage manager, but then I ended up helping play piano and rehearse with actors for their auditions, and I played piano for all the auditions, which were in August. Encouraged by an email to audition "just for the heck of it", I did. Never expecting to be cast, merely wanti