Not sewing lately

I got a guitar last week! A parlor guitar, to be exact. I have never been able to play regular guitars comfortably because my torso being so short means that they're too hard to get my arm around, especially sitting down - but this is closer to a ukulele size (though still bigger than a ukulele) and fits me perfectly. I'm taking "lessons" via JustinGuitar.com, and have done A-D-E, as well as the corresponding minor chords. It's a great site! It's also pretty cool to come to learning an instrument as an adult, when you have the self-motivation to practice, particularly exercises - one of the JustinGuitar things is to do changes between two chords back and forth for a full minute, which is the kind of thing I would have found painfully stupid when I was 12 but I can see how much I improve every day from it now. Just this evening I transposed "Look For the Silver Lining" into A from E-flat and accompanied myself. So much easier than trying to do that with a piano!

I attended the opening of the Schuyler sisters exhibition at the Albany Institute last week, and it was great, but I was a bit sad to see the underbust stays from Historic Cherry Hill on display labeled as ca. 1760. Howevs, HCH posted on IG about the stays with my research, crediting me, which was very nice. You should definitely see the exhibition if you're going to be in the area.

Last Sunday, I went to Klea Blackhurst's one-woman Ethel Merman tribute show, "Everything the Traffic Will Allow," at Glimmerglass Opera. It was fantastic! I got to tell her afterward how much I love this music when she signed my CD booklet (yeah, I bought the CD - that's how much I liked it, I'm a Spotify Millennial), and I felt like we connected.