This is me, being Wench Tossed by my buddies, the Yeomen of the Guard..well, a few of them anyway. I love this game!!!!!!

O my love
I stand on a distant shore
The turning tide breathes all the mystery of you

O my dreams
are lost with the Autumn Leaves
that turn to gold and fall in the memory of you

Mysts of Avalon cover my heart
carry my voice on the wind
over the waters that keep us apart
I will remember you still
I will remember you still

Oh my heart returns
to the sweetest morn
That was the spring
time for the loving of you

Oh my life
I weep for the drifting years
and for my soul that longs for the comfort of you

Mysts of Avalon cover my heart
carry my voice on the wind
over the waters that keeps us apart
I will remember you still
I will remember you still

I will remember you still

Aeone

What's the first thing you think of when you hear?

Beer: Joel
McDonalds: French Fries

Purple: Rain

Steroids: Big men
Cartoons: Rory
Tupperware: Old ladies

Florida: humid
Santa Clause: Tim Allen
Halloween: Kicks ass!
Alice: What???

Myspace: Better check it
Clowns: Creepy
Paris: Pascal

Patty: Peppermint?

Donald Trump: Bad comb over 

Pixie: Dust
Word: Up

Vanilla Ice Cream: On a brownie
Hooters: Dean loves 'em.  The actual ones, not the restaurants.
High School Musical: Halloween.  Dont ask.
Pajamas: Antonia

Big Bird: Snuffaluffagus
Christmas: Thank the gods its over

Parenting: Best hardest job ever

Drugs: for what?
True Friends: Worth everything

Well, how trick-boogey is this?  My buddy DeeDee, most of you on MySpace know her as Green Briar, started a fan club for me.    Now, DeeDee has known me wayyyyy too long to be any kind of fan of mine. I mean her mom is my second mom and vice versa, and she's had to deal with my zits as teens and cranky moods as adults, so I hardly think she can see anything in me anymore to be a 'fan' of. But still she loves me and I love her and she is the closest thing I have to a sister in this world.  So...technically the fan club is for you guys.  Its a group set up, so you can talk in the forum, tell your favorite Jacq stories, ask me questions ( and I might even answer!), share your fave art or pics from a Faire or of my horses, or whatever you like.   DeeDee has convinced me to do some special group only sales, and things like that to make it a bit exciting now and again too. So come on over and lets have some fun, eh?

http://groups.myspace.com/jacquelinefanclub

PS, I just put my mood for this blog at "Voluminous".  I have no earthly clue how that word can be attributed to a mood really, but I just LOVED it and wanted to have it anyway...

Its 6 a.m. 

This is obvoiously no strange occurance, it is 6 a.m. everywhere at least once a day. 

But for those of you who know me more than just in passing, you'll know that it is indeed a VERY strange occurance for me to be awake to see it.  I am not a morning person.

But today I have alot on my mind and found myself awake at about 5:15 wth no shot of getting back to sleep.  So I figured it'd been a while since I last blogged in here..why not catch up on it a bit while I drink my morning coffee and watch the sun rise?

Frankly guys, I'm wiped.

And doesn't it always seem like when you are the most tired is when you can't sleep?

The Universe has decided I needed a challenge so I'm playing it's game waiting to see what becomes of it all....

I have added a ton of new shows to my schedule.  Which I'm glad of because I adore doing the Faires.  It was of course, predicated by the economy.  I always do well at the Faires, very well, in fact.  Online, while my customer base has jumped much higher in the last year or so ( yay!), the orders have been necessarily smaller as folks batten down their own hatches to weather this recession.   So the added faires will balance out the smaller orders while giving me more of what I love to do!  So yay! But it's been a ton of work getting these new shows up and going.  I had two running consecutively on opposite ends of the country for a couple of weeks in October.   

My next show, Dickens Faire in San Francisco starts the end of November, on the Friday after Thanksgiving.  I signed up for this show which I had some misgivings about ( Its a smaller show and a bit shorter, and the drive is longer than I normally like to do for a several weekends long show. ) , because a dear friend had promised me the loan of his 'cart' for a booth.  This would give me a chance to see how the show did for me for a year before committing to building a booth of my own and spenidng that money.      Well, my friend, for personal reasons, which I respect, had to back out of lending me his cart.  But, it's only 3 weeks from the show!!! 

Thank God for my dear friend and hero of the day, Joel, who is meeting me on Monday to build me a cart, or I would have been boothless at Dickens!    So, the down side?  Scrambling last minute to build a cart and having to put money into something I am not sure I will continue to do down the road--which of course eats into profits I really really really need right now.  The up side?  Having my own booth done exactly the way I want in the TF style to which my customers have become accustomed, lol, which I will be able to use at other shows eventually anyway. And a lovely excuse to spend some time with Joel. Oh..and another blank surface to doodle on...hehehehe...the cart, that is, not Joel.

The move I mentioned in the subject line?  Well, early in October I got a call from Sand River Ranch, the ranch I moved my horses and my clients horses to two years ago.  They gave me 30 days notice.   Ack!! Why???  Turns out, it was nothing personal. They had a trainer with more horses ( and no stallions or fewer stallions anyway) they wanted to bring in, so the rumor goes, anyway, and since there was not enough room for us both I got the boot.  Of course, I wanted to move right away once I heard this, so within about 8 days  was back at my old haunt, the LAEC with Barb. Thank the Gods for her because she moved heaven and earth to get me right back where I used to be.  So, the horses are completely settled in. In fact, it took only about 3 days for them to just relax totally.  They are even back in their old stalls! So they are happy and I'm back to being less than 5 minutes away from the stables, which is nice.

But geesh!!!  Thats an awful lot for even a Superwoman Type A personality like me.  And the horse board is still not caught up yet....

Come on guys...order...

Seriously, let's hope for a good Holiday season now with the election over...I know we can all use it.

Woot!

I am very very pleased to announce a brand new video created especially for me!  The incredibly talented ladies at Horefly Films put together a video featuring my horses and myself and it is available to be seen at YouTube.  A high res, quality version will also be going on my websites just as soon as I can get in there to make updates. 

And since I already know the questions I'm going to get ( cuz I've gotten them via email already from my buddies who have the sneak peak version), I'm gonna go ahead and answer them in advance.

1) Yes, Pagan is 100% completely loose on the beach. No fences, no leads, nothing. 

2) No, I did not train him to do that.  We are just bonded. True Love.

3) The other horses are...Krist, the big Friesian stallion alone on the hillside.  Finnvarra, the black and white Gypsy Cob, running with Prophet, the smaller Friesian stallion.  Both Prophet and Finnvarra are also featured alone in the same grassy pasture.  Tuck is the grey pony you see in some photos. 

4) No, there is no moving film footage of Tuck.  This video was a spontaneous thing and was put together from bits and pieces we already had.  There was no existing film of Tuckie. 

5) Yes, I will do another which will include film footage of Tuck as well as lots of other stuff made specifically for this purpose.

6) Yes!!! Please do share!  The more who see it, the better for me and the horses!

7)Yes, I'd love it if you left comments on youtube or here or both.  It makes me feel special.  :)

Anyhoo..without futher ado...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_8QO2D7oi4

Enjoy!!!