Augh!

[gracedpalmer]

So, when I moved into this apartment, I carefully stored my matboard and cutter in my closet, behind my dresser trunk and everything else. I put the cutting heads into a bag with their blades, so they wouldn't get lost. I currently haven't the faintest idea where that bag is. I've been searching for it all day, and have been through pretty much all parts of the apartment. Without packing up, I'm not sure I can find them.

This causes some real problems for doing a show tomorrow. After all, as much as I hate mat cutting, it's a world less expensive than buying precuts. And most of the pieces I wanted to take aren't standard, either. Even the standard ones want a margin just a tiny bit smaller than the one on a standard mat. There's a Dick Blick five miles from the con, which could provide precuts, but it'd be expensive and the end result would be suboptimal. Argh!

I am trying to decide what to do, now. I may give one more search for the heads, though the only place I can think to look involves moving furniture and a lot of other things. I may be stuck taking old art, which is disappointing. I can see huge numbers of things wrong with all my older pieces, and the brain monkeys are convinced that no one will want to buy them. After all, they've been passed up for this long, no?

samadi brought me chocolate, which makes her a goddess. I'm also trying to figure out what I'm going to wear. I could go in everyday stuff, but that's kinda dull, though brightly colored. This is an excuse to wear my victoriana, after all. If only it didn't take so much effort.

Geh.

- Also, I'm unlikely to be able to finish the Pygmalion. If I'd been able to find the mat cutter and cut everything while there was still daylight, yeah, I probably could have speed painted until I fell over. But there's another big shiny thing what won't be going. I spose I could take it and work on it there. However, it's big and has boobies, and the con crowd, like the SCA, has recently gotten much more "Think of the children!"

Comments

[catalana.livejournal.com]

If I didn't say elsewhere, of course take my piece to exhibit NFS. I see the Ropers in January if they're willing to mongol it. I think I didn't email you back; I'm so sorry about that. Tomorrow's the last day of class and my brain is nonexistent.

[sister-bluebird.livejournal.com]

No, I didn't hear back from you. Unfortunately, this lack of mat cutter means that it can't go in the show (6.5x9 is not a standard size - usually that's not a problem). It also means that I can't hand it off unless you're okay with it arriving naked and matless. It should mat up to a 9x12 just fine, but the window needs to be bigger than usual.

Let me know - I'll take the painting with me in a bag, and will have my minicomp on me in case you can't get an email or reply out before I leave. I can even bill you via Paypal if you're willing to pay with plastic. :)

[catalana.livejournal.com]

I'd rather get you to mat it; I find that the things I don't manage to actually get matted before I get them end up sitting around sadly unframed forever. We can arrange another handoff I'm sure.

I shall drop you email! (And plastic is highly acceptable for billing. I shall email! Now before I forget!)

[zimboptoo.livejournal.com]

Did you check with the scissors?

[sister-bluebird.livejournal.com]

*laughs* The scissors are spread everywhere, as they get regular use. I can most definitely say they are not with the scissors.