Back when I worked at a summer childrens’ theater, we did a production of the Three Billy Goats Gruff. Because I had a friend (through my dad) who was from Romania, we had her translate the goats’ dialogue in to Romanian. The troll spoke English. It has always been one of my favorite shows. It was silly, but so fun. The story has a happy ending where they all order vegetarian pizza. We built a huge bridge set piece that we could walk over. We spent a few minutes at the beginning of the show teaching the audience a bunch of the Romanian words (iarba is grass!) and they helped the troll figure out what was happening. I got to be the “Great Big Billy Goat”, which if you know me is pretty comical all by itself.

So when I saw this “O Capra Mititika” (Little Billy Goat), I HAD to have him. He is crafted by Mark at MNSCeramics.etsy.com. ( I also have a verdegris colored rhinocerous by Mark and my sister has a pair of bears)

Spent a little while in the “cupboard under the stairs” (aka enamel studio) working on some new designs. Sewing machine, mad scientist, trout and groovy vinyl.

I have narrowed it down… Which ones do you like best? I already have a pair of brown and a pair of black, so I am looking for some color.

I started Sunday with a list of things to be accomplished.
– buy new sandals
– get new capri pants
– find electric tea kettle
– get fabric for special project
– prototype new finger puppet design

I accomplished exactly zero of those things, but not for a lack of trying!

Sandals – not only didn’t find any, but didn’t even find any I wanted to try on. Pathetic. I don’t like thong style with things between my toes or super high heels, but otherwise I am pretty easy to please. Time to check out zappos.com

Capris – This season the colors seems to be white, pale pink, khaki, taupe, black and screaming raspberry. I don’t wear any of those colors. Hello sewing machine.

Tea Kettle – Chintzy plastic or badly designed stainless. Still looking.

Fabric – Favorite store which used to carry cute retro prints no longer carries them. Project demands 30’s reproduction fabric. Reprodepot, here I come.

Prototype – Great idea to save myself lots of time. Prototyping involved bonding paper to silk screen in a manner which was not as designed. Operator error. Sigh.

On the other hand, Andy had a fantastic kayak adventure with a friend and then this morning went and took pretty artsy shots of my flowers which are finally blooming!