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9 years ago @ The Toast - Asking My Four Questio... · 0 replies · +11 points

Your seders sounds amazing! We have recently started to incorporate finger puppets, plastic frogs and bugs, and seder-themed American songs such as "Don't Sit on the Afikomen" (sung to the tune of "I've Been Working on the Railroad"). And it's worth noting--again--that there isn't anyone under 30 at these seders.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Asking My Four Questio... · 0 replies · +5 points

I honestly did try to fit in an anecdote about the fingers/hands multiplication, because it makes us all double over in laughter every year, but I just couldn't, so Thank You for bringing it up!

9 years ago @ The Toast - Asking My Four Questio... · 0 replies · +10 points

No, no, see, *you're* crying, and *I* was trembling with love-for-Toast-commenters at my bus stop this morning.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Asking My Four Questio... · 0 replies · +15 points

Thank you all for the kind responses. I'm glad I could kick off the internet-crying early today, before the midday crying happened.

10 years ago @ The Toast - Feel the Burn: The Dou... · 2 replies · +3 points

I used your mp3 and it was perfect! I started responding to you in rounds 5 and 6. "Rest", "Yes ma'am!" "Go" "But, but I wasn't done resting..."
I also suspect you're a little too peppy about those push-ups...
Thanks so much!

10 years ago @ The Toast - Feel the Burn: The Dou... · 0 replies · +1 points

Seconded -- I am just not sure what I'm doing with that exercise. Is it an arm-raise and hold for twenty seconds, or alternating arms over twenty seconds? I can do either, but not sure which is right.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Art Galleries: Yes, We... · 0 replies · +2 points

We do! The big downtown one is First Thursday, but each neighborhood in Seattle has its own Art Walk, so there's almost always one going on within the first two weeks of the month.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Art Galleries: Yes, We... · 1 reply · +10 points

Thanks for bringing this up!

Chances are that an artist who is showing at a fair, on Etsy, or at a very public venue (like a cafe) does not have a gallery, and is representing themselves. Buy away!

But if they do have a gallery and you are seriously inquiring about their work outside of the framework, the onus is on THEM to tell you, "great, please call my gallery and they can take care of payment arrangements." I am definitely not asking you to Sherlock out whether they have a gallery -- it's part of an artist's contract to direct you to their gallery.

My main frustration is when people are surfing the web, see a gallery site (or something on Pinterest, Facebook, etc), and then try to contact the artist directly in a misguided apprehension that the artist will receive more money that way, or that the gallery is somehow taking money from the artist and that direct purchasing is better.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Art Galleries: Yes, We... · 0 replies · +5 points

Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed.

Really good question. Framing is super duper expensive if you are doing with high-grade materials. Those high-grade materials are absolutely worth it--to protect your art for your lifetime and beyond--but they are crazy spendy. Therefore, it's good to keep in mind that even though the print you're buying is a steal at $100, it will cost as much (or double) to frame it professionally.

For my own collecting, I often try to circumvent framing entirely, and I look for works on canvas or on board. Pay for it, get it home, bang a nail in the wall, DONE.

If you're in love with an unframed work on paper, see if the gallery does its own framing, and then roll the cost of framing into your layaway payment.

You can also look at purchasing the art and then framing it as two separate expense projects: pay for the piece, then save up your pennies for a few months until you have a chunk of change to pay for the framing (as long as you or the gallery can keep the art safely until then). You may even want to find a framer who can shrink-wrap your piece for safekeeping, and then it can go in your closet, under your bed, etc. while you save up for framing.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Art Galleries: Yes, We... · 0 replies · +4 points

MOVE ALONG, NOTHING TO SEE HERE.

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