I don’t believe it …. My jeweller blew me out AGAIN!
She e-mailed me the day before setting up, saying she was sorry but she wasn’t going to be able to show in my house. I was not happy, in fact I was well p*ssed off and I won’t be inviting her again!
The next interesting thing that happened was that my prints arrived ALL THE WRONG SIZE. (It wasn’t going well) but this was not the disaster it could have been due to the fact I still had the original paintings. They weren’t due to be hung in Terre a Terre until the following Tuesday so I hung the originals instead, and they looked great. So much so that I decided I would keep a few back from the exhibition in Terre a Terre during the open house. The prints finally arrived on Tuesday and are fine, so this weekend I’ll have originals the prints and postcards on show. I never said, did I, that the postcards have turned out wonderfully (See, you can do things last minute and they turn out okay). In fact they have been a huge success, flying out the door last weekend. I sold about 70!
But I’m getting ahead of myself. Getting the house ready took a long time, just lugging things around and tidying up all those piles of rubbish that accumulate in the corners of rooms and at the bottom of the stairs. All of it had to be put somewhere and then I had my false walls to make, which took me 3 times as long as I had estimated. I think that’s a good rule of thumb; estimate the time it will take you to do something and then treble it.
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