Weekly thingy and embroidering faces again.

I probably need to change that to semi-weekly thingy with how my posting’s been lately, sorry.

Places to buy stuff!

• The Gamecrafter: your home for the new and slightly improved Neurotic Owl Tarot. AND Neurotic Owl’s Faerytale Tarot! https://tgc.link/Faerytaletarot
• TEEPUBLIC: mostly t-shirts, a few other products.  Watch for sales, when shirts drop from $20 to $14!
• REDBUBBLE: Just, I don’t know, a ton of different stuff.  T-shirts are more expensive than Teepublic, but there are a lot more options.
• AMAZON: Home of the Geeky Gals Coloring Book!  Daydreams and Whimsies!  AND NOW, The Neurotic Owl Compendium!
• https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/naralesser
• ETSY: paper dolls, a knitting bag pattern, and a bunch of vintage dolls of various sorts from my collection

Did I miss something?  I think that’s everything.

What’s making me happy this week:

Not a lot given the world right now, but I did see a very beautiful production of Ben Stevenson’s Sleeping Beauty last night with my Mom, complete with Desmond Heeley costumes, and it was glorious. I sometimes lose a little patience with the story ballets that are 10% plot, 90% divertissements, but between the sprightliness of the choreography and the charisma of the dancers this one never really dragged for me. I do think it was wise to have three intermissions splitting an admittedly long piece into 4 fairly even chunks, the wedding variations can start to feel long when you haven’t had a little break after the third act, and they deserve a fresh audience for the delights of the fairytale characters.

I’m especially fond of the bluebird variations – years ago in a rep class we learned the five fairy variations and the female part of Bluebird for a concert and I campaigned HARD to do bluebird because I loved the fluttery port de bras and my chunky lil feet were great at hopping on pointe (one of the few things that came easily). I was mildly astonished almost thirty years later to realize how accurately I remembered the choreo. It’s nice to have a happy dance-related memory every once in a while.