I don't know how long this will last, so I just wanted to state that if you google "freshie", my website is number 2!!! Right under the urban dictionary's definition for "freshie", which by the way was not in the popular vernacular until way after I got my nickname.
AND if you search for "freshie" on Yahoo, I'm number ONE bitches!!!! That's so cool!!!
while i'm at it...
I'm #3 on msn.com
I'm #7 on ask.com (which I had never even been to before)
I'm #1 on aol.com
I'm #1 on dogpile.com which apparently groups all search engines together
Cool.
June 16, 2007
May 16, 2007
honeymoon!
The honeymoon was awesome!!! Cinque Terre is just as beautiful as I remembered it, and so much better when not only do I have a new husband (mio morito in italiano) to share it with, but we had such a nice hotel to stay in. Much nicer than the sketchy hut where I stayed last time. Actually, we walked by the "huts" that were referred to as lodging, and they have apparently been abandoned, including the awesome
beachside bar I visited twice in the past. Sad.Anyway, Greg and I enjoyed as much Italian food as we could take, which was a lot...
mmm. caprese salad and mozzarella y pomodoro panini
yummy!! We were in Vernazza on a food holiday - what luck!! I had a spicy spaghetti dish and Greg had some mussels that were delicious...
cappuccino!!! so good when it touches your lips!!
We especially enjoyed the wine & cheese and I learned what "scampi" really means... (prawn - a small lobster/huge shrimp - not olive oil, butter and garlic)
a pause on the hike
We hiked along the vineyards of Cinque Terre while overlooking the Mediterranean, which was a tough hike but so beautiful!
Our last night in Milan! We're both a little tan and scruffy. What a fabulous honeymoon and vacation!!!April 30, 2007
wedding!!!
(photo by Arlund Imagery)Wow!!!! I just wanted to say THANKS to everyone who came to witness Greggles and I get married on Saturday!! Greg and I just keep talking about how magical it was, and it wouldn't have been that great without all of our AMAZING friends and family who helped out that night, who took fabulous polaroids, who wrote typewriter messages, who told me their version of the wedding (I want to hear them all, people), and who danced the night away!
We're off to Italy today but I couldn't resist writing one last little blog before we took off! I'll see you all in two weeks! Muah!!!
Oozing with love and happiness,
Freshie
P.S. if you uploaded photos anywhere, please send me the link!
April 17, 2007
rejection sucks
I'm getting married in 10 days and I'm totally overwhelmed with last minute wedding details, including rescheduling all of my hair & makeup appointments with a new salon (don't EVER go to Trim in Nashville - they treat their customers like garbage).
I did, however want to blog a tiny bit about the American Artisan Festival. I applied to it, wrote a nice cover letter, sent a resume, slides and crossed my fingers. It's a great show - it's here in Nashville, and I've been going to it as long as I can remember. Well I got my answer yesterday after a generally crappy weekend in Knoxville - rain mixed with sleet and thunder and lightning do not yield a successful 3 day outdoor craft show and they dismissed us all early since there were no customers and so many crafters had already left. Sitting in this freezing weather for 3 days also produced a nice pre-wedding cold sore. Lucky me.
So anyway, I opened my letter and knew what it would say - yep - I got denied. I didn't cry or anything but I sure felt like it. I don't take rejection too hard or too personally because I know that shows, especially one this great, have a ton of vendors that come back year after year who are practically guaranteed a spot and that leaves very few spots open for new people like me - especially in the jewelry category. There was even a nice note that said my work was great but that they had too many jewelers.
Plain and simple, it just sucks, and I sort of got that "woe is me" feeling because I have gotten denied for every show I've applied to in my own freaking hometown (with the exception of the Nashville Craft Mafia show). It sucks that I have to haul my ass all over the southeast, pay high gas prices and stay in hotels in order to sell my jewelry at a show. I can't seem to ever just drive down the road to do a great show just miles from my home. I don't think these promoters are snobs (well, I think some judges are snobs since i see so much of the same scary and horrible albeit well made and expensive yuckiness at big fancy shows that I would never buy and when someone new and modern like myself comes along, of course I'm rejected because I don't make gigantic forged/fused hideous sculptures to wear around your neck.... do I sound bitter?), I just think they are loyal to all of their past vendors.... for year after year after year...
I guess I'm just kind of down because I have been rejected from a lot of shows this year, probably because I'm applying to better ones than last year, but currently I've been rejected from more than I've been accepted - several of those I really wanted to do. Hopefully one day these people will shake it up and let the new, young, hip generation of crafters in their club, and possibly expand their buying audience who will be pleasantly surprised to see something different.
I did, however want to blog a tiny bit about the American Artisan Festival. I applied to it, wrote a nice cover letter, sent a resume, slides and crossed my fingers. It's a great show - it's here in Nashville, and I've been going to it as long as I can remember. Well I got my answer yesterday after a generally crappy weekend in Knoxville - rain mixed with sleet and thunder and lightning do not yield a successful 3 day outdoor craft show and they dismissed us all early since there were no customers and so many crafters had already left. Sitting in this freezing weather for 3 days also produced a nice pre-wedding cold sore. Lucky me.
So anyway, I opened my letter and knew what it would say - yep - I got denied. I didn't cry or anything but I sure felt like it. I don't take rejection too hard or too personally because I know that shows, especially one this great, have a ton of vendors that come back year after year who are practically guaranteed a spot and that leaves very few spots open for new people like me - especially in the jewelry category. There was even a nice note that said my work was great but that they had too many jewelers.
Plain and simple, it just sucks, and I sort of got that "woe is me" feeling because I have gotten denied for every show I've applied to in my own freaking hometown (with the exception of the Nashville Craft Mafia show). It sucks that I have to haul my ass all over the southeast, pay high gas prices and stay in hotels in order to sell my jewelry at a show. I can't seem to ever just drive down the road to do a great show just miles from my home. I don't think these promoters are snobs (well, I think some judges are snobs since i see so much of the same scary and horrible albeit well made and expensive yuckiness at big fancy shows that I would never buy and when someone new and modern like myself comes along, of course I'm rejected because I don't make gigantic forged/fused hideous sculptures to wear around your neck.... do I sound bitter?), I just think they are loyal to all of their past vendors.... for year after year after year...
I guess I'm just kind of down because I have been rejected from a lot of shows this year, probably because I'm applying to better ones than last year, but currently I've been rejected from more than I've been accepted - several of those I really wanted to do. Hopefully one day these people will shake it up and let the new, young, hip generation of crafters in their club, and possibly expand their buying audience who will be pleasantly surprised to see something different.
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