The Slopera

Here's my life as it currently is. I just got back from visiting Josh's family in Idaho, which was a blast. I got to meet Joe and Mandy (his brother and sister in law) as well as their three kids Katie, Alyssa, and Presley. Jake, Rachel, Chris, and Larry were there also with Jake and Rachel's kids Brynn and Eli bringing the grand total of people in the house to 13. It was crazy but really fun :) Can't wait until we get Annie there with her husband and four kids, then we'll really have a full fledged part going on.

So now that I'm back from my fun weekend it's back to work. I'm the assistant makeup designer for BYU's production of the Opera "Tales of Hoffman". We're in dress rehearsals all week and we start the actual show this saturday. It runs until next saturday which actually isn't really a very long run but with seven hour rehearsals all week this week it sure feels long. Luckily we don't have a whole lot of makeup to do like we did on Macbeth, this show we just have 35 people to wig and some hair to whiten. Nothing I can't handle :) Plus we have tons of people to volunteer with the wigging process so that helps a lot.
Olympia the mechanical doll in "Tales of Hoffman" I really like her makeup design. Every time she blinks those eyelashes I get whiplash!


Dr. Miracle in "Tales of Hoffman"



As far as the book goes I'm still doing my final revisions that Mike Eberhardt gave me to do and then I'll send it off to him and see if he wants to send it to his agent. If not I'll send it off to Michele Bell (An author in Utah) and she said she'd love to market it regionally. So keep your fingers crossed and we'll see what happens!