Re: A tale of two events - a mini-story


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Posted by Lisa K on October 29, 2001 at 23:22:25:

In reply to: A tale of two events - a mini-story posted by Alissa on October 28, 2001 at 01:12:59:

Enjoyed the tale and was eager to hear it. Crazy sometimes. You
never know. Don't feel too bad about the snail. The only thing my
best friend lets me do is a chicken. She is my best friend and not
that I have anything against chickens but cmon help me out here!!!

Kudos on the library gig!!!! The performer shined! Great job on the
FDA also. I need to do that. I bet you will get more calls for
repeat henna than you think. Thanks for sharing the good and the not
so good tale. Makes me feel not so alone when it doesn't go as
expected.

: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...
:
: Last night I had a free mehndi demo at the local granola-happy-all-
: organic-free range-everything store. And given the fact that it was
a
: free event, and I ran some calendar listings in the newspaper about
: it as well as the store's newsletter, I expected a big turnout.
: *WRONG*. I did 2 designs, both of them on employees of the store
who
: took their breaks to come and get henna. Besides that, I had 2
people
: stop by and chat for all of 2 minutes, somewhat disinterestedly,
and
: take my business card. *Sigh* ah well, it was only an hour, after
: all, and some time out of the house, even if it was spent doing a
: henna snail (yes, a snail - she wanted a snail) on an employee's
arm.
:
: Today's library program went much better. I had about 15-17 people,
: all hennaed in an hour and 15 minutes time. I lecture while I
henna,
: and today's group was about 3/4 adult - even though the program was
: billed as a "young adult" event. Well, young at heart has to count,
: doesn't it? They were a great group, very receptive to me and my
: schpeel on henna, lots of questions and happy to be decorated.
:
: I got lots of signatures on the FDA petition, and was able to
educate
: them all on the evils of PPD, while sharing basic info on henna
lore.
: One woman in particular was quite chatty regarding her work as a
face
: painter, and was quite interested in harquus (I told her I could
: refer her to more informational sources beyond myself... so if she
: follows through, you might expect an email Catherine).
:
: So there are good ones and there are not as good ones, but it's all
: good in the end I suppose.

 


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