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April 05, 2007

Home Again

Here, then, is the finished mural.

And here is the finished display, complete with bookshelf and books.

Apologies for making you wait. We finished around 3:00am Tuesday morning and didn't get home until almost 5. We've been in a daze for most of the past few days and are just now starting to feel human again.

To recap the waning moments of her work:

Robbi had saved the crowd of tiny screaming people for last.

She was so tired she could barely stand on the ladder.

But she kept painting.

And eventually, she was done.

There was no thunder clap, just a sigh of relief from Robbi and a gratified whimper from Iggy, who, by all accounts, was ready to go home.

Robbi looked like this:

And her favorite little paintbrush looked like this:

I, however, looked like this:

Which quickly turned into this:

Before I knew it, my resolve not to jump melted away. Forgetting the demoralizing Annapolis incident, I jumped.

And jumped.

And jumped.

And then suddenly stopped jumping, content that I had sufficiently demonstrated my joy at being done.

DONE, I SAY!

And from outside.

Though the date is not confirmed, we are going to be doing a reading/signing/talk/chitchat event at H&F Fine Arts some time in May. We will let you know the exact date and time as soon as it is set so that you, our screaming DC/Baltimore fanbase may choose to be in attendance (or not, as the case may be).

In closing, we would like to thank the underwriters of the mural, Dr. Casey Londergan and his good wife Anne D. Pitts for donating the $50 True Value Hardware gift certificate that made the paint we used cost $50 less than it would otherwise have cost. Thank you Pitts-Londergans. Bless you and your child(ren).

Posted by bogenamp at April 5, 2007 02:28 PM

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Posted by: Ko-ris-u-chan at April 6, 2007 09:33 AM