So, this has been a weekend of all kinds of goodness!
Thursday evening, encouraged by another artist friend of mine, I wrote a query letter to a magazine and sent in a couple of photos of some work I have done. It's kind of a big deal, these magazines, and I didn't expect much to come from it. Boy, was I surprised late Friday night when I received an email from the editor of that magazine telling me she thought my work was fabulous and wanted to feature it in the next issue! Yow!
Unfortunately, I can't really tell you (right now) which magazine, or which work of mine they will have.
This makes THREE national magazines that will show my work this year, along with articles I have written. (I can't really tell you the names of the other two magazines, yet, either) Writing for magazines has been something I have wanted to do for a very long time. I am a decent writer, I think, and I know my style leans more toward the journalistic side of things, so non-fiction work is perfect. Plus, it generally pays at least a little something. My dear, sweet, very talented husband is also a writer, but his work leans way more toward the creative side of things. I have been telling him, though, that a number of blog entries of his have really been outstanding in the 'personal essay' genre, and he should think about shopping them around. Right now, he's working on a book. I can't wait til he is recognized for his talent by a publishing house.
Speaking of Travis, he was working most of the weekend, unfortunately, so we didn't get to spend as much time together as I would have liked. :(
Also on Friday, I ended up picking a gallon of sour cherries at the home of my ex-husband. I drop Kira off at his farm on most Friday nights, and in early June, the sour cherry tree in the front yard is usually bursting with fruit. I adore the color of the cherries, and spent some time Saturday pitting them and admiring the crimson red. They are actually the color of one of my favorite glasses, Creation is Messy's Sangre.
Isn't that just a lush, gorgeous red? There's definitely a pie in our future.
More goodness on Saturday....a trip to the South of the James Farmer's Market was a HOT and scooterific affair for me. I took my scooter over to pick up our weekly share from Victory Farms. It was unbelievably hot; I could not bring myself to put on jeans, so I must confess to riding in shorts. I did wear my helmet and gloves and sneakers (ALWAYS), and I put on my (black) riding jacket, figuring if I crashed, at least the top half of my body would stay decently protected. Heh.
I couldn't figure out why some guy was honking at me at a stoplight, until I realized my riding jacket is long enough that it covered my shorts when you saw me from the side and front. D'oh! Longer shorts next time...
I wrote a post on my ScooterMom blog about my market run, and a local neighborhood blog picked it up and featured it in THEIR post about the market this weekend! They even used one of my photos and everything! (they credited me, so it's ok). Go here to check out the article!
Lastly, today after church, we took the kids and went to the Richmond Greek Festival for lunch. It's a huge deal here in Richmond, and we love love LOVE some Greek food, so we try to go every year. The festival is so big, they have a drive-through lane for food orders, so if you don't want to walk around the festival and you just want some food, you can do that! It being ridiculously hot today, we opted for the drive-through. Yum! Souvlaki, pastichio, baklava, galaktoboureko and dolmades....oh, it's heaven!
Now, I am washing clothes and writing, and doing some work, and setting up the coffeepot for the morning and deciding whether I am going to walk or do the exercise bike at 5:30 in the morning tomorrow.
Summer schedule has started for this household; no more preschool for a few weeks, so not a lot of free time around here for the Mommy. Gonna have to cram all my extracurricular writing, glassworking, jewelry-making and metalsmithing into the evening hours and naptimes. Yikes!
The Good Stuff, though, is that there is lots of time to be with my kids. And that is a Very Good Thing. Love that bunch so much!
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