{"id":956,"date":"2012-03-03T23:59:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T05:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/?p=956"},"modified":"2012-03-04T11:36:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T17:36:45","slug":"sisters-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/2012\/03\/03\/sisters-sisters\/","title":{"rendered":"Sisters, Sisters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last night was a very special First Friday event at <a title=\"Lakeside Legacy Arts Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lakesidelegacy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lakeside Legacy Arts Park<\/a>, called Art in Action, where a number of the resident artists set up tables and did demos in front of their artwork displayed on the gallery walls. \u00a0I\u2019m still in the process of debriefing Max and Flora Mouse, to see what their experience of the evening was, and hope to tell you more about that in the Sunday doodle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the meantime, though, I wanted to give a quick shout-out and say thanks to my sister Carol, who kindly drove down from Wisconsin to keep me company at my display table.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-968\" title=\"Carol and Jean\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/larger_jeancarol_6401.jpg\" alt=\"Carol and Jean\" width=\"640\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/larger_jeancarol_6401.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/larger_jeancarol_6401-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here are a few snapshots of the two of us from the event\u2014Carol on the left, me on the right\u2014both wearing our lovely <a title=\"Dorothy Designs Etsy Shop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/dorothydesigns\" target=\"_blank\">Dorothy Designs<\/a> flowers. \u00a0One can never have enough photos of oneself and one\u2019s sister, right? We took a couple of extra shots, just to make sure that at least one of them turned out.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-970\" title=\"Composite of Carol and Jean Photos\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/newcomposite_jeancarol_640.jpg\" alt=\"Composite of Carol and Jean Photos\" width=\"640\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/newcomposite_jeancarol_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/newcomposite_jeancarol_640-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Carol and I had a wonderful time hanging out, drawing and doodling, and chatting with all the nice people who came by to say hello\u2014including our extra special surprise visitors, Cousin Sandy and her husband Mark. Thanks so much guys for dropping by, and thanks again, Sis, for all the help and your great company!<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: left;\">Additional Thanks<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">While I\u2019m at it, I also wanted to say a big thanks to everyone on the Lakeside Legacy Arts <a title=\"Lakeside Legacy Arts Staff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lakesidelegacy.org\/contact.html\" target=\"_blank\">staff<\/a> (&amp; the volunteers) who made this evening \u2014and make every First Friday event\u2014work so well, and be so much fun: Erin, Terry, Amber, Ingo, Kevin\u2014and of course Ginny, whose special touches and attention to detail are in evidence everywhere throughout the Dole mansion and annex.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thank you <a title=\"Exclusively Napa Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.exclusivelynapawine.com\/nosh.html\" target=\"_blank\">Exclusively Napa<\/a> for the lovely appetizers (especially that yummy olive tapenade bruschetta).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hello and thanks to the other resident art partners who exhibited and demonstrated their (and their students&#8217;) work on Friday: <a title=\"Jeanine Hill-Soldner's Web Site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.soldnerfineart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeanine Hill-Soldner<\/a>, <a title=\"Johanna Gullick's Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.johannagullick.com\/Johanna_Gullicks_Art_Gallery\/Welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\">Johanna Gullick<\/a>, <a title=\"Amber Larsens's Creative Artistry School\" href=\"http:\/\/www.creativeartistryschool.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amber Larsen<\/a>, and Steve Ponio. So many wonderful things to look at on the walls, as well as on your easels and table displays, and so fun to participate with you all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And lastly, thank you to the intrepid art-lovers who ventured out on such a snowy night. I really enjoyed meeting and talking with all of you\u2014many of whom are artists yourselves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For anyone reading this who lives in the Chicago suburban area and would like to see the Art in Action exhibit, the work will remain on the walls of the Dole Mansion and the Sage Gallery at 401 Country Club Road in Crystal Lake through the last week in March. Call Lakeside Legacy Arts at 815-455-8000, or visit their <a title=\"Lakeside Legacy Arts Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lakesidelegacy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night was a very special First Friday event at Lakeside Legacy Arts Park, called Art in Action, where a number of the resident artists set up tables and did demos in front of their artwork displayed on the gallery &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/2012\/03\/03\/sisters-sisters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artistic-endeavors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}