I knew someone would be coming to the door sometime today. As I scrubbed off the last vestiges of yesterday's mascara (it's waterproof and TAKES two days to get it all off), I was chanting in the bathroom, "I just know this is when she's coming, I just know she won't call first as promised." And voila, the doorbell rang. You have never seen a woman slather on foundation to cover up those dalmatian spots so fast in all your life! I had no choice about answering the door. This was the designer picking up our living room chair for re-upholstery, coming on her day off from quite a distance. She'd forgotten our phone number back at the office and couldn't warn me she was coming. Harrumph. I told her that I was trying to play along with the folks from the Today Show that a week or so ago decided to do a day of broadcasting with no makeup for anyone. I was just a little late. I figured I'd get distracted and just forget after awhile and relax. Nope. I look very much like my husband with no makeup. Haha.
In Studios magazine, I saw something about whether or not artists dolled up to work in their studio, or just staggered in wearing pajamas and crazy hair. The responses were quite varied. I always figured that if I went totally natural, I'd scare the bajeebers out of anyone that came to the door. Blech. The transformation that occurs with a little mascara and blush for me is significant. I refuse to give it up! OK, unless on a tropical vacation. Then it's just sunblock and more waterproof mascara ;-)
Today I have shockingly little housework to do, so I'm going back into the studio to try to rebuild (or at least just start again) the clay face that I had to chuck when my son embedded the entire clay surface with the black embossing powder. Oh, and the savage little friends also stopped in to visit the studio (uninvited and unescorted) that week and draped a damp towel from their swimming excursion over the same sculpture and my sketch book! Teens have been banished from the room! I know they like coming in and checking it out, but what little beasts to be so careless. It will be an "Artists Only" zone for now.
