as i click on NEW POST" i wonder should i even consider going down this road! without intention to the topic of this blog i constantly say that!!..

well it was a day.. set up between 2 jewelers, i didn't care, i do something different. Up Your Ear Earrings.

Frankly, id so like to take this in a different direction.. either everything needs to go in a very exclusive high end, or manufacture and sell it for dirt cheep.. either way it might be better. any ideas? welcome the advice. never know one of u genius' might have an idea.

ah the problem i have with dirt cheep is the lack of self pride in a job well done. ordered a salad, at the this restaurant, near by the booth. took it back to the booth, then noticed nothing on the menu description of the salad i'd ordered was on the salad, so i waisted more time, bringing it back. (by the way, i was starving, and cranky, not a good thing!) and then they had packaged salad dressing, of all things diet, oh i hate that... too much, me that is, they corrected the salad and i waited. can't anyone get it right? loosing precious time at the booth..

oh no .. thats not all.. after nearly the day had past yet another menu arrives, and they will bring it to your booth, chinese, not really, lets face it. once u've had real chinese, like in new york, can u imagine what it must be like in china. oh god.. yum.... so knowing this was going to be mediocre, i opted for food, feed kids. in a flash the food..( loosely ). arrived.. id ordered moo gia pan, ugg, chicken fried rice, wonton soup. and beef lo mien and the fantastic freshly made crispy noodles!! stale,( no less) what was i hoping for u ask? just something with some flavor, oh dear god.. the soup, was no different from plain hot water, and they brought it to us with out plates, then i called them back, to bring plates and he arrived with cake plates!! what the fuck. so when the young chinese fellow arrived with the plates i told him that i didn't expect a great meal or anything but that the soup, was like hot water... i was so disturb by the whole thing i actually waisted more time bring it back to the restaurant, and air my observation, gees in a taste test no one would know the difference. he had all these excuses.. i was like come on... ben franklyn said when u loose ur reputation u loose everything.. think that goes for morals also. no self pride. no one seems to care.. Well i do...

and i'd like to make Up Your Ear a house hold name.. that's my goal.. with integrity.. for all i do.. it's just not about me, it's about the crew, what standards will they set? if we set our hopes and dreams, as well as good intentions..to such low standards. how will they know to seek their inner dreams .. if we don't try ourselves. well here i am, the crew and i working at it..

and by the way it didn't rain.. though it didn't make a difference. oh well kinda got the picture, working on a rescript.

off to moro .. for work, another day another dollar.. and so much more.. who knows who'll i meet tomorrow. right? if nothing else.

well i just got a great good nite kiss, and with i say gnsd.. and for those reading this am.. gd!

andrea and crew

The hum of the generator, out side my dinette window, in the coach, all set up for tomorrows show. friday, sat. sun. ugg, tomorrow is from 12 to 8 and it always seem like forever. steady, usually all day. .. even though it's predicted to rain, coulda predicted that a year ago, it always rains on friday, in canandeguia...

got my hair cut . and miss madeline too.

with our new do's , we will, work the crowd!! and take Andres to the bathroom 3 times an hr!..

many friends here too, and a few missing, i was hoping to see... like john and mocca, his lab. i saw corky last week, but thought i'd see him again here. so many people, through the years of doing this. we all love it. have a passion for being in a new place every week. and yet craving home, missing the comforts of a house, or apt. . freely running hot water. electric everyday. not manufacturing it with a generator, pulling it's heavy ass out of the basement compartment, too tall for me!! making it that much more a challenge, no complaint. saw one lone fire fly and only for a flash.. met a black cat, with white socks. had ice cream for dinner with the crew, chocolate chip mint for Andres, cookies and cream for miss madeline, and i've given up chocolate, for.. cotton candy!! now that's just too funny when u think about it! in more ways than one!!...

spent a few days at a koa, eaten alive by mosquitoes, and attacked by flies, wrote a friend, "being attacked by fucking flies" response... "wow, there are FUCKING flies there.."

with that i bid adue.. (sp)

andrea and crew

Last night, i almost got to bed early, for me. 11:34 p.m. My sleep habits changed... last year when i went on the road. I started living in the bi-coastal. Taking to friends on the east coast till 9pm and then friends on the west coast till 12, 9 west coast time. for one i was on the road, with the crew, alone for the first time, and then there was my others impending health issues.

Then when i arrived in L.a i was up all day and night. never went back to that routine of in bed by 9 asleep by 10. now i can't seem to shut the brain down, but at last, i was asleep early to the sound of rain drops drumming at the roof of my coach, and the tapping on the awning, i put out for the first time, since we left L.A.

I'm still exhausted, maybe too much sleep, or is it i may never catch up from the long drive, the early morns just as i arrived east to work and then the long drive to rochester, 8 hrs. fortunately it was a quick journey to Canandaguia, where we set up camp at the KOA, for a few days before the show this weekend. was moving at a snails pace yesterday, took my time, slowly emptied the holding tanks from the weekend, and parked the coach. then reread some texts from the day/night before, smiled, and took a pathetic shower with no water pressure. and then off to get supplies. God awful Walmart. we had a lot of fun though, hadn't been in a store in a year. put things in the basket, then put them back. nope, don't need that, went through my head. came home with nothing but the necessities.

Plan on working on changing my work schedule, and then looking for a local thrift shop, found out from a camper here, that there is an encampment, just a few miles away that we can visit, from the 1840's. love that kind of stuff, and love to go back in time. and have done so many times before. If we dress the part we can go into the special area, completely out of this time. a good reminder of how we got here, in 2010. evidently those moccasins we found in new mexico r gonna come in handy!! think i'd better find a hat to cover my colorful hair, or they'll know we r time travelers, don't want to be discovered!

If u were to go back in time when and where would u go? who would u most like to meet? I'd like to go to new york, and visit with Tesla, i'd follow him around like a puppy dog. I tell him that no matter what anyone says don't listen to them. I beg for a ride in that car he built, with westinghouse. and to show me how it worked off of the frequency of the earth. I think i'd like a visit with jefferson also. A time when we were really inventing ourselves . . . our future, one we seem to be really fucking up now. or at least governments. We the people will have to do something to about this... I appreciate capitalism but not at the expense of the people. The plans they have for us.. not too good, and there aren't enough Walmarts, home Depos, and the like for us to all work at anyway. I will NOT GO DOWN THAT ROAD!!

so here's to art, and the endless imagination.. anything is possible, and there's no such think as can't. I can, i can... we all CAN... R U WITH ME?

till tomorrows thoughts of yesterday.

andrea and crew

It is a sunny morning, in rochester, high cirrus, whitening the sky, quite different from the Maxfield Parish blue sky at sunset last nite. In the parking lot of an iceskating rink we've stayed in over the last 8 years, for the art show in Cornhill. The weekends weather was outstanding, compared to the full on rain we'd incurred last summer. 80 degrees nearly no humidity, under the shade of the tree where my booth has been for 4 of the 8 yrs i've sold here. The crowd was lighter than in years past, a sign of the times, as we all wonder, is this it, is this kind prospecting for gold over, like the days in california, during the gold rush. suddenly towns closed up and left ghosts behind. I see main streets, with empty stores, signs for lease, just the beginnings of ghost towns of our futures. sounds dim. but it is a coarse, and when one door closes, another opens...

I've found that in my experience it has always been tricky as one passes through, but once through it, it has always been by far better than what was left on the other side. so we can only hope that this too shall to be for best.

surrounded by artists, i find less of them have an exit plan, many r not really artists, and r looking to figure out what it is they can create that will sell, in this currant environment as we all buckle down to spending less as do the customers. selling things that people don't need, I sold one necklace, and bracelet to one of those customers from days past, evidently there's at least one out there, i'd originally asked $225. and was happy to find it a home for $145. and a bracelet once $135. for $95. and was glad to have it. what was once icing on the cake, is now the boost that helped keep the days sales in check. sold earrings, but just one to each person that, was up for the parting of $$, where once they would have likely done all their christmas shopping, at Up Your Ear. past out a lot less cards, of the 5000 I'm prepared to part with this year. often 200. now maybe 1/2.

I had the privilege of visiting with friends i parted with, now a year. loved ones whom over the years became family. Hugs and kisses, embraces hard to let go. as so many have kept up with our lives and it's sudden changes in so short a time. The brave, one might say, exit from a marriage, filled with negativity, no hope. and my mothers illness, taking from us, her presence, in the physical form. A privilege i could have never known had i not just up and left it all behind, and driven out to california, where i still have to get used to calling home, after staying on. to find a new future.

Plans of art projects, i've put off for a life time, will be my exit plan, have many ideas but have a sure focus on one I've always wanted to do. and now, with the grace of god, i hope to persue when L.A i return.

Till more thoughts manifest i bid u all a good day...

with all our love, and wishes for a profitable summer, in love and $$.. (:

Andrea and Crew