Ms Ficklesticks had to take one day off to clean up. Scraps, bits of sparkly eyelash fabric, fluff and stuff all over the place. After that we all enjoyed a dinner out at a new restaurant in Oakland named Camino. All local ingredents and unpredictable and unusual offerings, including cachaca with basil and lime for a cocktail. It was great, and my official celebratory dinner on the occasion of the publication of my book! Both daughters and their families were on hand and so were Angus and Janet Powelson, who greenly rode over on their tandem, and Terry Schoop, actual Burning Man employee. Everyone at the table wore ficklesticks, except for one adult male (Terry) and my baby grandson(who had some sticks to play with instead) Each had on a necklace or a necktie made from Ficklesticks. It was fabulously freakentastic. As far as I know, no one dribbled any cherry tomato soup on them. We picked blackberries and picked up ice cream. At least the blackberries were local. HAR
We're making kits today for the show coming up in Long Beach: Booth 2156 under Stickball, my company name, fyi. Grandsons Josh and Nathan will be helping me by packing tulle and ballerina parts this morning. They are convinced that it is going to be girly. Probably more blackberry picking this afternoon.Must eat seasonally and locally, dontcha know.
Off to Denver via Kansas City on Thursday. I will be signing books in the booth of The Creative Needle at the Sewing and Quilting Show in Denver this weekend. Saturday only, I think. I am attending a family reunion of a long time "family friend". So-called boyfriend, actually. Another discussion for another post. Kind of a long story.
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