tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84161353215902284062024-03-13T10:49:48.856-04:00Aya RothwellAyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03715967654003253006noreply@blogger.comBlogger183125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8416135321590228406.post-44702968998836193602015-07-11T19:56:00.002-04:002015-07-11T20:00:35.113-04:00New Tumblr blog and story about Rhinoceros beetles<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I have a Tumblr blog now: <a href="http://akadori-studios.tumblr.com/">http://akadori-studios.tumblr.com/</a><br />
So far I have posted comics and pictures of birds.<br />
The bird photos are from a bird banding job I had in Cape Cod this spring.... I am embarking on a career change of working with wildlife! Currently I am working in the mountains.<br />
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Here is an excerpt from a newsletter I wrote in Japan, about the time I raised sixty Rhinoceros beetle larvae. For a while. Then I gave the larvae to people as presents. Click on the page for more....<br />
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Ayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03715967654003253006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8416135321590228406.post-259837614841001302014-11-05T11:07:00.001-05:002015-07-11T19:39:46.471-04:00I am in the States again<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I raised some chicks, for a while, in Japan.</div>
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I traveled across America by train.</div>
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I am volunteering with bird banding.</div>
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Here is a Halloween jack-o-lantern I carved.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">The audience was a mix of people from Japan and people of
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mincomics are very slick looking, while the American indie comics are more
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Some examples of festival photos I showed include </span><span style="font-family: "\0022Helvetica Neue Light\0022"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://ayarothwell.blogspot.jp/2010/04/mocca-2010.html?m=1"><span style="font-family: Arial;">MoCCA </span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">and the </span><span style="font-family: "\0022Helvetica Neue Light\0022"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://ayarothwell.blogspot.jp/2009/06/cambridge-river-festival-2009.html?m=1"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Cambridge River Festival</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (one of my favorite shows).</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">A woman from the audience
mentioned that the photos of the US shows looked like there was breathing space
and that there would be a lot more interaction between sellers and audience. (I
mentioned that people have hawked to customers by offering free cookies). What she heard about the Japanese fests was that there were a ton more people, and people were sort of crushed and penguin-walked through the isles trying to move around, nevermind trying to interact with sellers.
"The festivals are just mental, says my friend!" (As a note, I
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comics festival here in Japan? I think that's a niche that needs to be filled,
a smaller comic fest outdoors or in another setting that's relaxed, and where
sellers can interact with the general public. And also, we need people
giving out cookies and muffins with comics, like in those photos you showed.
That part definitely needs to be brought to Japan."</span></div>
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Some original pages I will be showing!<br />
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More comics! (These will be for sale as books)<br />
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Some jam comics from Boston!</div>
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A comic about flying teeth that save the day.</div>
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I have books on Kindle now! And an <a href="http://amazon.com/author/ayarothwell" target="_blank">author page.</a><br />
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Also, I went to Tokyo and Nagoya and met a lot of people. Here are some photos.<br />
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Above: <a href="http://rome.or.jp/cafe/en/" target="_blank">Rome Int'l Cafe's </a>Party for Creative people, organized by comics artist Mokutan <a href="http://wwstudio.jp/" target="_blank">(Wonderworld Studio)</a> with guest manga artist <a href="http://ameblo.jp/davi-nathanael/" target="_blank">Davi Nathanael</a>.<br />
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People in the photos above include: <a href="http://towafromtokyo.com/?page_id=530" target="_blank">Towa Hiyoshi</a> (photographer), Davi Nathanael, Mokutan, Chinatsu Hirayama, Kaori Nakamura. And maybe Yamaguchi Shoutan, Kirisha Akanuma, Youhei Yamazaki.<br />
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Mokutan Angelo drew my face!<br />
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Where I met <a href="http://biguglyrobot.storenvy.com/" target="_blank">Adam Pasion</a>, Testuya and other folks, who are part of a Nagoya comics collective called Uzomuzo. (The space is <a href="http://www.mangakukan.com/" target="_blank">Manga Kukan</a>, a cafe where people can read and draw manga.)<br />
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Tokyo part 2: International Manga festival (Kaigai Manga Festa) and etc. <br />
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The day before the main event, there was a seminar at the Nihon Kogauin college about mainstream manga in Japan. There was an interpreter translating the event into English and Japanese. I thought the seminar was quite interesting.<br />
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* Two veteran manga artists (who make up the pen name Akira Himekawa) talked about their production process. In their case, this involves drawing out nemu (rough storyboards) until the editors of the magazine or whoever approves them, sketching out the pages, outsourcing the backgrounds via internet to an artist in Germany, the manga artists finish inking the characters, then combining the background and characters, adding ziptones digitally and polishing.<br />
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* Davi Nathanael, A 27 year old (or so) who hails from Germany, talked about how he moved to Japan when he was 19 with dreams of becoming a manga artist. After trying to get his work published and having trouble, he enrolling in the college (where the seminar was held) and debuted with a series about his life in Japan (called "Boku wa Tokyo de real").<br />
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* An editor for some magazines talked about the role of editors in manga, which seems to be much more involved then in other countries. He showed a picture of a popular anime he was supervising, one of those promo pictures of a young woman in an odd outfit in an odd pose. Not odd as in Cirque du Soleil interesting-odd, but as in, a promo picture vaguely insulting to women and which makes me look for another anime to watch. Anyway.<br />
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Some of the things the editor said included, "The editor's role is to help make your work popular. Write with your editor in mind! We are your first eyes. Learn to make short self-contained stories, under 30 pages, when you are trying to debut. We want to make an agreeable environment for you to work in. We will take care of your finances and fan letters. We will find out
what is popular and what sells, because you are busy. There is no set way for an author to work or for an editor to work. Also take only half my words to be true."<br />
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I have read one the magazines the editor is involved with. Listening to his presentation, I had several "ah, so that's why..." moments. But to be fair, I thought the bit about learning to make short stories was good, and he wrapped up his advice rather interestingly.<br />
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The editor's advice reminded me a little of a three-act screenwriting professor I had college. He was a a former screenplay reader and he gave advice such as, "If a joke or something is not working in the script, cut it out, the script will be stronger and you might see a better place for the joke later. Write with the screenplay reader in mind, because that is the gate-keeper for scripts in the movie industry. Don't break genre!" (The first bit of advice seemed all right. The rest probably helped push me towards independent arts.)<br />
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Note: In contrast, my first screenwriting professor was a woman who makes her own independent movies, and she gave advice such as: "Make sure you really care about your characters, enough that you are willing to wake up at 4am for them. Because you will, at one point, when you are shooting your movie." I have always thought this was very relevant (for many projects), since then. <br />
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After the seminar, I also stopped by a SCBWI (Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators) critique group. <br />
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I pose with books I am selling plus the Kaigai Manga fest booklet. (You can purchase my books <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Running-Through-Dreams-Comics-Rothwell/dp/0615814247" target="_blank">here </a>and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mark-Gillys-Volume-Aya-Rothwell/dp/0615887821/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1382615036&sr=1-1" target="_blank">here</a>.) I had English-language books as well as one minicomic I translated and re-printed, and I sold a few copies.<br />
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I should explain that the festival was part of a larger comics festival called Comitia, so the background is all that crowd. There were about 50 artists involved in the International Manga festival part, from the US, Phillipines, Bulgaria, France and elsewhere, with maybe 42 exhibitors in the artist alley and other artists involved in talks. <br />
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Above: vendors selling manga ziptones and general supplies. There is also a food stall. This seems like a pretty good idea. Do US comics fests have these? If they don't, I think they should. But instead of greasy event food, I think there should be, say, farmers markets selling local apples.<br />
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This is an area where you can read samples of the comics being sold. The area was chained off, and at least one staff member was standing on a chair and keeping watch. There are different tables; table N, for instance, has books from Row N. I thought this was a neat idea, and I thought it might be neat for shows in the US too.<br />
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I should note that many of my favorite minicomics I have picked up in US shows do happen to be folded-and-stapled books. Perhaps that was the reason why, faced with this large sea of glossy comics, I started vaguely hunting for the photocopied-and-stapled books.<br />
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Above, my neighbor Nao Yazawa, representing Coffee Party. She was very chill and fun. She has been drawing manga for 20 years and is currently drawing a series called <a href="http://www.google.co.jp/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCoQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dmpbooks.com%2Fbooks%2F720%2F&ei=tK1rUp-rFM2PiAefp4D4DQ&usg=AFQjCNFtmnHo8DnYnt-c8x5X_IfC1TXAVw&sig2=lYO-8rB91lffaj2a27HGhg&bvm=bv.55123115,d.aGc" target="_blank">"Moon and Blood"</a> for a publisher in the US. "The publishers asked me to draw vampires," she says, possibly with a slight shrug. "They said, they are popular right now in the US."<br />
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I met a publisher from Finland named Kimmo Ojuva, who said that Japanese manga (and possibly Japanese media in general?) is becoming very popular in Europe right now. Apparently, part of this is because people see it as a kind of counter-culture to US Hollywood movies. I think, nowadays, mainstream Japanese manga is pretty formula'd and editorially leashed as much as Hollywood, but this is a curious topic I would like to know more about.<br />
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Beware of kites! (The birds)</div>
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Tokyo Big Sight.</div>
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Me at the Kaigai Manga Festa (International Manga Festival). I will write more about this in another post.<br />
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This green little path in the middle of Tokyo surprised me.</div>
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An odd blocky building (HQ of Square Enix or something). If you had ropes and proper gear, it might be fun to climb.<br />
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These fish will eat at and clean your feet.</div>
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"Please try sampling these oranges," the sign says.</div>
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Bonus: also, upon returning, I met what appears to be my twin.</div>
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I will be tabling at the <a href="http://kaigaimangafesta.com/en/" target="_blank">Tokyo International Manga Festival</a> on October 20th 2013!<br />
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The festival is at the Tokyo Big Sight and I will be in the artist alley.<br />
I plan on selling <i>Running Through Dreams</i> as well as other books.<br />
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Also, I just put up an <a href="http://www.zazzle.com/red_bird_in_flight_keychain-256972154588517119" target="_blank">acrylic keychain for sale through Zazzle.com</a>.<br />
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<b>New book!</b> You can order copies through <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Running-Through-Dreams-Comics-Rothwell/dp/0615814247" target="_blank">Amazon.com</a> and <a href="https://www.createspace.com/4134273" target="_blank">CreateSpace.</a><br />
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<b> I am directly selling copies of <i>Running Through Dreams</i> during my upcoming visit to Boston, Atlanta and San Francisco</b>. I am also planning to be at the <a href="http://www.mainecomicsfestival.com/" target="_blank">Maine Comics Arts Festival (MECAF)</a> on Sunday May 19th 2013.<br />
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The book collects several of my past comics and two new short comics. The book is 8.25"x6" color paperback, 118 pages. See below for more samples and links.<br />
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"The Wolf and The Sun". Pages from here were also displayed at Lesley University's 2011 comics exhibition.<br />
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Kattan the Spider. Read the <a href="http://ayarothwell.blogspot.jp/2008/10/24-hour-comics-day-kicked-out-by-fuzz.html" target="_blank">blog post about the making of this comic</a> (and the slight fiasco that was my first 24 hr comic experience).<br />
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Ayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03715967654003253006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8416135321590228406.post-54531308792901427282013-02-11T05:14:00.001-05:002013-02-11T05:14:27.601-05:00Mascot<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03715967654003253006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8416135321590228406.post-38343323314277216202012-12-08T23:23:00.000-05:002012-12-08T23:23:06.613-05:00More clouds and an update<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03715967654003253006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8416135321590228406.post-40927467161033872682012-09-14T22:48:00.000-04:002012-09-14T22:48:13.064-04:00Fields<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Cycling through the fields.<br />
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Ayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03715967654003253006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8416135321590228406.post-50932576163929369692012-08-21T07:59:00.004-04:002012-08-21T07:59:49.345-04:00I'm in Japan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'm in Japan settling into my new apartment (handed down from former CIRs) and figuring out my new job at the city office. I'm still alive, just wanted everyone to know! I am going to another orientation tomorrow.<br />
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Ayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03715967654003253006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8416135321590228406.post-53927743797602005192012-08-02T18:13:00.000-04:002012-08-02T18:13:00.483-04:00Farewell to Boston, Hello to Japan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In July, I wrapped up work at MIT and left Boston. In a few days, I am flying out from San Francisco to Japan to work under the Japan Exchange and Teaching program. Whew! A lot of change! I will be in Kyushu.</div>Ayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03715967654003253006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8416135321590228406.post-61697907802646544532012-04-13T13:52:00.000-04:002012-04-13T13:52:16.918-04:00At Farmers Market April 21 and Boston Comicon April 22nd<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I will be selling books at the <a href="http://www.farmfresh.org/food/farmersmarkets_details.php?market=521" target="_blank">Cambridge Farmers Market</a> on Saturday April 21st from 10am - 2pm.<br />
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I will also have books available at the Boston Comics Roundtable table at the <a href="http://bostoncomiccon.com/guests.html#artist-alley" target="_blank">Boston Comicon</a> on April 21 - 22 at the Hynes Convention Center in Downtown Boston. I may stop by Saturday before the Comicon wraps up for the day. I will be tabling all day on Sunday at the Con.<br />
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<a href="http://bostoncomiccon.com/directions.html" target="_blank">Directions</a> or <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=hynes+convention+center&daddr=900+Boylston+St,+Boston,+Massachusetts+02115+%28Hynes+Veterans+Memorial+Convention+Center%29&hl=en&view=map&geocode=CdKSVH_j2ImzFa4uhgIdHlfD-yF7aQAwpvnmvA&t=m&z=16" target="_blank">Map</a><br />
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Enjoy the nice weather that has breezed in!</div>Ayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03715967654003253006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8416135321590228406.post-79612139318387803782012-03-18T16:21:00.001-04:002012-03-18T16:22:47.343-04:00Selling books at Cambridge winter farmers market<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I was at the Cambridge Community center's winter farmers martket yesterday, selling comics. It was a last minute tabling event. Pretty low key, fairly nice sales -- especially when the daughter of a comics collection curator (from Michigan; Michigan State University?) came across our table. She called her father and asked if he wanted copies of our comics. Getting a yes, she purchased one of everything, from anthologies to $1 minicomics.<br />
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These occurrences, which I think of as "A Patron of the Arts visits the table", do happen once in a while. Not at MOCCA or large shows, but I think more at smaller shows, or shows where an indie book maker stands out more (such as Boston Comicon, a few years ago). Or sometimes at friendly larger shows, where a visitor just decides they like your books and buys a copy of everything. It's fun and much appreciated, and I usually give a big discount.<br />
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Another interesting thing that happens (and this is more at Farmers Markets and craft shows) is when a visitor picks up a book and talk about it without realizing the person who make them is nearby. Usually it is funny, and a bit like being in a play; I secretly want to see how far it will go if I just smile or comment vaugely. But customers first, so pretty soon I clear up the misconception by saying, "Why thank you!" <br />
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Also, many visitors are curious that people can draw their own comics and print them into books themselves. I didn't know about "minicomics" until a few years ago, and I think they are a neat thing to know about.<br />
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Farmers Markets and craft shows also have fresh food nearby, which is great. I am a fan of tabling at these events.<br />
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"Comics and Society: Observations of Boston Comic and Cartoon Artists"<br />
Riverside Galley <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Riverside+Gallery,+Cambridge+MA&hl=en&ll=42.369769,-71.11124&spn=0.016456,0.031543&sll=42.367391,-71.111305&sspn=0.008228,0.015771&hq=Riverside+Gallery,+Cambridge+MA&radius=15000&t=m&z=15&iwloc=A">[googlemaps]</a><br />
Artists' Reception on Sunday, 26 February, 2-4pm<br />
* This event will be free and open to the public. I will also be selling books there, and I think there will be some kind of entertainment. <br />
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I will have pages from "Mark and the Gillys" there". <a href="http://ayarothwell.blogspot.com/2010/03/maa-comics-exhibition-and-boston-zine.html">These pages</a>, actually. The book is for sale at my <a href="http://www.ayarothwell.com/Store/Store.html">store</a>, or at the gallery reception.</div>Ayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03715967654003253006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8416135321590228406.post-44459670835377051412012-02-05T14:04:00.000-05:002012-02-05T14:04:17.513-05:00New portfolio case<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RuRPTqGoezU/Ty7QrWOgToI/AAAAAAAABM8/uk79WN5XrIc/s1600/folio1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="248" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RuRPTqGoezU/Ty7QrWOgToI/AAAAAAAABM8/uk79WN5XrIc/s320/folio1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
I have a lovely new portfolio case! <br />
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In fact, it is so new and nice, that I was in awe of it.<br />
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So I drew all over the first page in the notebook, and felt much better.<br />
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(But I will probably have to tear off that first page before using it for my interview.)<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4JzXcUbkMOU/TyalCUWrsvI/AAAAAAAABM0/EglxwI8BSCQ/s1600/icesculp20120005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4JzXcUbkMOU/TyalCUWrsvI/AAAAAAAABM0/EglxwI8BSCQ/s320/icesculp20120005.JPG" width="240" /></a></div>Our team designed a Jackalope.</div>Ayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03715967654003253006noreply@blogger.com0