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The Charming-Yet-Infrequent Newsletter, in case you missed it…

Hi Friends!
Time for another installment of the Rhymes With Orange Charming-Yet-Infrequent-Newsletter!

Today’s Headlines:
-Visit me at my studio Nov. 14th & 15th
-My amazing intern lights up Times Square
-I drew on someone famous’ dining room wall and did not get in trouble.

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OPEN STUDIO & HOLIDAY SALE- SAT & SUN, NOV. 14th & 15th, 10 am to 5 pm

It’s that time of year again, time to throw open my doors and say, “Get in here!” Mark your calendars for November 14 & 15, 10-5.
I’ll show you around the studio, we can sip wine out of teeny cups, and you can pick up your favorite postcards and prints and books for holiday gift giving.
I will be one of many artists participating in my building’s Open Studios Event, so give yourself time to meet the potters, painters, weavers and sculptors I share the building with.
The address is 221 Pine St. Suite 414, Florence, MA 01062.

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MY AMAZING INTERN

My only regret with my amazing intern Juana Medina is that I had her sign the two month agreement versus the fifty year indentured servitude agreement.
Last weekend her animation for the organization www.350.org lit up all the screens at Times Square as part of the worldwide event to reduce carbon emissions.
HER ART…TIMES SQUARE! This was MY intern! I asked her today to tell me what it was like to see her work up on all the screens. She said, “It was like being a little kid and flying a kite for the first time.” …Isn’t she cool?

Since you might not have been in New York city to see it, I bring it to you: http://www.artistascitizen.org/competitions/burningembers/AAC_JMedina_Entry082309.swf

To see pictures of all the events that happened all over the world that day, check out http://www.350.org/

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I DREW ON SOMEONE FAMOUS’ DINING ROOM WALL

If you have children under four feet tall, or have read to other people’s children of approximately that same height range, then you have read them books by Mo Willems.

In addition to the ornithological best seller “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!” and the hare-raising “Knufflebunny: A Cautionary Tale,” he writes and draws the pachydermal/porcine beginning reader series of “Elephant and Piggy” books.

On an evening when he was not tending to his imaginary zoo, I joined his family for dinner. The other lucky guests were young adult fiction writer Holly Black and her illustrator husband Theo Black

After plying us with wine, Mo and his wife Cheryl and daughter Trixie handed out chalk and we all headed to their dining room, which is painted to the ceiling with green chalk board paint.

The evening’s theme was “Circus” and we went to town. There were tight rope walkers, people flying out of cannons, poodles on unicycles– the whole three-ring business.

Then we dined among our creation. What a night.

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Thanks for tuning in to the newsletter! See you at the studio in a couple of weeks!

Hilary

Even Better than the Sound of Silence… The Aroma of Absence

Here’s the abridged version of the August 2009 Charming-Yet-Infrequent-Newsletter.
Next time, you can sign up and have it sent to you.

–Twittering…really!
–My extremely talented intern
–The Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival
–The Aroma of Absence

TWITTERING…
I’m doin’ it.
See artists like Michael Leunig that really struck me. See little amphibians I come across and take pictures of. In the near future, these blog posts will turn into Tweets. I add to the blog once a week, so check it out when you’re procrastinating.

If you’re a Facebook addict, you can spend more time away from a productive workweek by joining the fan page. The tweets post there too.

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INTRODUCING…JUANA MEDINA, a.k.a. Intern Extraordinaire!
I landed the best intern in the universe this summer– Juana Medina, cartoonist, graphic designer and RISD student. At this very moment, she is giving the website a spanky new look (coming soon!) and is working on a 360 degree studio tour.
I LOVE her artwork, and you will too.
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THE MICHIGAN WOMYN’S MUSIC FESTIVAL
This Friday I head to The-State-That-Looks-Like-A-Mitten for three days of music and camping at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival.
From all I’ve heard, it’s Music-Festival-Meets-Burning Man-Meets-Female-Empowerment…I’ll be sure to report back!

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THE AROMA OF ABSENCE
Hints from Hiloise…
Let’s say it’s midnight on a humid Thursday summer evening and you’ve just gotten into bed with your golden ticket to Snoozeland… when suddenly you detect a stinging, musky smell wafting up through the window. Seconds pass. You hear the cat door swing open on the first floor and the quick steps of your kitty sprinting up the stairs.
The last thing you remember is your cat leaping onto the quilt toward you–his haven of safety–before being broadsided by the intense rankness of skunk.

Fear not.

What you need is this:
1 qt. of Hydrogen Peroxide
¼ cup of baking soda
1 tsp. of liquid dish soap.

Mix it up in a bowl and lather it on your beloved while chasing him around the locked bathroom. Rinse with tap water while he howls bloody murder at you.

This magical mixture actually breaks up the skunk oils and gets rid of the stink. Kitty will be SKUNK FREE!

You, on the other hand, may be covered with scratches. Hopefully there will be a few drops of hydrogen peroxide left in the bottle for your injuries. All the same, you will bask in the aroma of absence…

(This nugget is from the Texas Agricultural Extension Service Newsletter. They warn that you can’t bottle this mixture because it could explode.)

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That’s all the news for this rainy August day. Thanks for reading!

Hilary

October 9, 2004