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March 18th, 2011

2 a.m. - I’m emailing pictures to my Power-Point client.
9 a.m. - Ring, ring -
me: Good Morning

client: “fantastic job. listen, because of snowdates, I have another day before the presentation. Can you do another picture?”

me, thinking that I have a 1:30 appointment at the spa, and a 3:30 appointment with my trainer, and I’m on to cook dinner for company tonight….: “Sure. What do you have in mind?”

client: “one face leaning forward on muscular arms……”
My client is UP. Talking faaaast.
Snap snap, so many ideas…… “Good Morning……”

We hang up, I go to wake up, morning routine…..
Luckily I didn’t start the picture yet, when,

Ring, ring - “Hi! What’s up?”

client: “Could we make that a 2-person Caricature? The first guy leaning over a brick wall. He’s in the U.S. - talking to our associate in the U.K - You’d have the Atlantic Ocean in there, and a phone in his hand
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then later, middle of the night - I draw the picture first in pencil, then in marker.
While erasing the pencil for this upbeat picture,
I flip on a movie - Ahhhh “Escape From Alcatraz”.
Point, Counterpoint.

Crazy day, Wild night, and I’m just sitting here alone.
It’s a good life:

Update: Aaaahhh, it’s all worth it. Here’s the email that I woke up to today:

“Alison, I want to thank you for an extraordinary job. My presentation went brilliantly and your slides were gut busters. That you so much for your professionalism and talent.”

Me: Smiling

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The Clown’s Coloring Book

March 15th, 2010

Yeow - A woman called me about a Coloring Book this week - just a regular party-prop based on the Party-Girl. I wanted to send her to see a Coloring Book that I created as a business ‘advertisement’ recently - but I couldn’t find the post. Is it possible that I hadn’t posted it?

Well, here’s a sample of it now - some of the pages. It’s a lot of work to make a Coloring Book, but it’s so worth it. Since my childhood was Coloroing Book, it was so much a part of me, I’m excited to think of the kids who would be carelessly taking for-granted the ones that I create for them. So much a part of their lives, and they probably won’t even realize it.

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(516) 579-4706
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