User talk:Anne
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How do you use the snake templae
I'm not really clear on how the templates work! Ed did mine, so I'm just winging it. Since it's already uploaded, you can just add {{tiny_snake.gif}} (look at the code so you can see what you have to type) after what you write and it will show up like this. {{tiny_snake.gif}}
The instructions above no longer apply, because I’ve deleted the {{tiny_snake.gif}} template and replaced it with 
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Oh, and by the way! Welcome to the Gumnickopedia Addiction Society (GAS)! Anne
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Go HERE for how to use the snake template.
Random image
Okay, I think the problem was the fact that I had “protected“ the page (to keep our younger editors from messing with it too much). Apparently, the protection was incompatible with the random image function. I’ll just have to keep an eye on things with the “watch” function instead.
Tootle-e-toot
Bring your camera today so we can have a photo shoot. I have a tootle-e-toot we can use. (Alternate spelling: toodle-y-toot?)
I would spell it tootlie-toot. And I can't wait for the picture. 
I am still alive, I swear.
Anne and Ed--
Sorry I have been out of pocket. I am in the midst of what is probably the busiest time of year for me. I am in the last two weeks of one school play (the one I do lighting, sound, and props for) and the first two weeks of another (the one I direct). I am not sure how that works, being in two places at once, but the school seems to think it's possible, so who am I to say it's not? Anyway, it makes things insane right now, and every moment during my workday that is not in the classroom is now involved in finishing up stuff for the one play and starting up stuff for the other.
I am also in "festival season" with my art, meaning I am doing art festivals three weekends in a row, and preparing and painting like crazy when I am home. This is my first venture into festivals, and it has been up and down. I did great at the one at the end of September, sold about 6 pieces, but the one last weekend was another story. The Cleveland Apple Festival (Or as I have nicknamed it, the Crapple Festival. That'll teach me to sign on for a festival I have not researched better.)-- At the two day festival I sold.... Are you sitting down?? I sold ONE MAGNET. ONE $5 magnet. That is IT. Spent the whole friggin weekend in Cleveland, TN, paid $60 for my booth and that is all I sold. Bunch of cheap rednecks who don't know art from arse. It taught me a lesson though, not to do anything other than ART festivals. No more county fair type deals where the people are there for hayrides and deep fried oreos. I need events where people come to see/buy art. I was a bit of a black sheep at this festival. I thought there would be more artists, but it was all country craft type stuff, or as Rich and I like to say, Country Crap.
If you are not sure what I am talking about when I say Country Crap-- one lady was selling (I am not making this up) teddy bears dipped in wax. Jane and I first thought maybe they were supposed to be a creative way to start fires (that's probably what we would use them for). But no. My friend Kathy actually asked the lady why one would want to dip a teddy bear in wax. The lady responded (obviously offended and surprised at the question), "They're scented." And we all were thinking, yeah, but after the scent fades, then all you have is a nappy-looking highly flammable toy that you can't really play with. Not to mention how hard it is to dust things that are made of wax. Have you ever tried to dust candles?
I mean, how could I have competed within a market where the customer buys THAT product??
Fortunately, the festival I am doing THIS weekend is actually an Art festival, and it has a decent reputation around here, so I hope I'll sell SOMETHING at it. If I don't, I may just pack it in and forget the festival idea and let the gallery sell my stuff. I don't know. I do know I will be going out of the festival business after this weekend until at least the Spring. (Hey! Are there any art festivals in Houston? Maybe we could road trip next spring and visit and do that too!)
Anyway, as I said, I am kind of swamped right now. Things will ease up some after next week. I can't wait. Until then, my presence on Gumnick.com will be spotty at best. But after that I will be back in business. Just in time for my birthday. :-)
