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Yesterday started with a fog so thick I couldn’t see my hand in front of my face. I nearly missed my turn to get on the highway because I couldn’t see the traffic light! The fog lifted as I drove north and by the time I reached my partner’s house to pick her up, it had dissipated. We loaded her folding table into my car and headed off to the park for PPD.<\/p>\n

I had the very last booth on the row. (Actually there was another vendor with a booth after mine, but they showed up in the morning while we were setting up and loooked at their spot and left. We didn’t see them after that!)<\/p>\n

The weather was perfect. High 70s with a mild breeze and sunny! After 3 days of heavy rain it was very welcome. The Gods must have been smiling on us because it started raining again last night and it’s still raining now.<\/p>\n

I sold 12 books. What a rush! Plus, I had a suprize visit from the author of my foreword \u2013 M.R. Sellars<\/a>! While he was there chatting with me, a few lucky book purchasers got BOTH my autograph and his autograph in my book<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I feel like I have done exceptionally well for my first outing with my book. Plus when I got home from the fair I had fan mail in my inbox!<\/p>\n

Hi Lyon!
\nI was hoping I’d be able to buy your book today at PPD — and thanks to my friend Tracey I did.<\/p>\n

Wow — holding a copy of your book in my hands and reading through it–it is so much more impressive than I thought it would be after looking it up on your website and on amazon.<\/p>\n

I have only read a little bit of it to my 4yo daughter (Evangeline) — but she adores it so far. And I myself have gotten many ideas from it — and I haven’t even read it all the way through yet. But I’ll have that done by tonight — after the kids are in
\nbed.<\/p>\n

Thank you so much for writing this book — and for signing it as well — my daughter thinks it is so cool that you wrote her name in it for her. That made it even more special for her.<\/p>\n

Thank you.
\nBirghtest Blessings,
\nTabitha<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Plus to top that off, my rating on amazon.com jumped under the 100,000 mark to 95,000 something.<\/p>\n

I was invited back to PPD next year to give a workshop. I was also asked if I would give an interview for a well trafficed web site. I expect to hear from them next week regarding the details.<\/p>\n

Obviously, I was so busy yesterday with the fair I didn’t have time to sketch but I will definetaly need to get going on some fine art paintings for my upcoming one person show at Chique Gallery<\/a> in Arnold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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