Playing with Colors - and Indulging My "Inner Hathor"

As of today, Unveiling: The Inner Journey has been available for a tad over a month. In fact, a month ago, today, was Amustela's Jewels show at Vespucci Italian Restaurant in Fairfax - a great show, and the first public release of Unveiling.

Just the day before, Nicole Cutts, who organizes women's Vision Quest Retreats and other life-transforming success-coaching and events for women, hosted a private party with a dozen of her close friends - all "Powerful Women." I had a chance to make a first introduction of Unveiling then - what fun!

Since then, I've had a chance to do book signings at Star*Nuts Gourmet Cafe in McLean, at McLean 1910, and at Anahid Sofian's 5-Day Workshop Intensive in NYC. (I was there for this last Saturday's session, taught by Eva Cernik - great insights into developing drum solos!)

And just last night, was at the benefit held to support our dear Shadiyah, which was hosted by our much-loved Gerson Kuhr, aka "The Fitness Pharaoh". I was tremendously impressed by the dancers Monday eve, especially our dear Caleena Tarantino, who did an awe-inspiring dance, and our very special Nimeera, who came in for the (nearly) last dance of the night, and managed to outlast the musicians - who were at their finest and into really long sets! Impressive, both of you!

In the midst of all of this - actually near the beginning - I had a chance to meet (very serendipitously) Carole Jackson, author of Color Me Beautiful, which I reference twice in Unveiling. Carole kindly gifted me with a copy of her now-famous book, and bought a copy of Unveiling for herself. (Thank you, Carole!)



So right now, I'm applying the "Color Me Beautiful" principles. I'm an Autumn, and have a gorgeous royal blue silk charmeuse skirt with matching silk cami. Gorgeous pieces, wrong colors. Trying now to take them into a more "teal" direction, with a dye bath I've just mixed up. (And am blogging and FB'ing between turning the fabric pieces so they get consistent color.)

Getting our colors right is a really important step. I write about it in a couple of different chapters in Unveiling.