Jenny Mendes

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I should be in Kiev now.... I'll be posting costume ideas for Halloween until I get back!  Excited for the adventure!

These guys are headed to Kiev today for an International Doll Show....I am chaperoning Betsy Youngquist and her progeny ....goodness knows what this group would do unsupervised... .......

I'm excited about my upcoming workshop in Tucson.  This link has the details!!!!   http://www.southernarizonaclayartists.org/news-and-events/saca-workshops/

Finally got out to this show today!  There is some great work there, and a few pieces of mine too!  

Looking forward to being  home for few days before I leave again!  I really love this Japanese illustrators work, so playful, joyful and dear. 

I've got a lot of traveling coming up starting with a visit to Penn State.  Unfortunately, I don't have this kind of chariot!  

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Just finished listening to this book.  Only 7 cds, and it is fantastic, I was taken in immediately.  It won the Man Booker prize and is unforgettable.  Read it!! And for fun, an actual photo of a white tiger, totally unrelated to the book.  A magnificent looking creature.

One of my pieces in it's new home!  I love to see where things end up living.  Looks like it found the perfect place to land! Thanks Johanna for the photo!

That's the thing about Netflix.  Sometimes you watch a movie right away.  Other times, you forget, and a month goes by.  So it went with Life of Pi.  But after a month I finally watched the movie by Ang Lee of the book by Yann Martel.  It was great.  I had loved the book which I listened to a few years ago.  Here are a few memorable quotes for those of you who didn't read it, though I'd recommend at least a listen :) “I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks