little shop photos

here are the photos my friend sent to me of the homeschooling production of little shop of horrors. i love the purple and green janet chose for audrey, and how it played out in the rest of the show.

rainy days and wednesdays

kaas glassworks has beautiful glass dishes and coasters for holiday gifts. i love walking in and looking around for gift possibilities at this time of year. and the store is always decorated so lovely at holiday time.

when we woke this morning the rain was pouring down. chanda and i were tempted to not attend the afternoon dance class, but morgana was determined. so, after our morning reading, i walked them to the Y for their duncan dance class. then i walked to the library to return some books. i was about two blocks away when the sky just poured buckets of water on me. i was drenched.

at last the rain abated for the walk home from the library, which is when i took these pictures. the light was grey and subdued. i love the aftermath of a rainstorm.

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after picking chanda up from the duncan dance class (morgana and korrina were at HB studios for tech work on the christmas production), we stopped at the wings theatre to see how janet was doing with the nychea production of the little shop of horrors. she has been working on the costumes, set AND props. last week she told me she thought she was in over her head, but she has persevered and has really outdone herself. the costumes are colorful, fun and just . . amazing! especially the audrey plant. the colors she chose that run throughout the show help to pull the entire production together and help to make everyone feel great and look great singing. i hope i can get some photos that do justice to the handwork that has gone into the skirts and jackets, and the colors that were picked. this evening chanda went around with the camera while i ironed backstage and helped pin scarves on actors. chanda and i went to help sew . . we didn't realize it was opening night!!! all of a sudden actors were taking places! we ran out into the audience and took seats next to some friends. it was a fun show.

here's a photo of camille and caslyn putting a last minute brick wall on mushnik's office windows. caslyn also added some window bars, just to make it skid row authentic.

after documenting the set work that was being done, chanda came and took over the ironing. we both like to iron, which is good, since janet abhors it!