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    <dc:creator>carol@sweetjelly.com</dc:creator>
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      <title>Live Music Tomorrow Night!</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m back from the dead to fill these pages with many things. First thing on the agenda after a long summer sabbatical of radio silence on this blog is making sure everyone is aware that there&#8217;s a gig this Friday (tomorrow evening) in Cross Plains, WI at the Crossroads Coffeehouse. Owner Mary Devitt has graciously opened her doors to us once again and we&#8217;re excited indeed. Special guest and What The Duck superstar Aaron Johnson  will be joining Mark Miskelly and I on upright bass and we&#8217;re super stoked that he&#8217;ll be there and you should be too. We&#8217;ve got two action packed sets prepared along with some pyrotechnics and the release of doves at the end of the show.

	

	November 4th, 2011
Crossroads Coffeehouse
7:00PM &#8211; 9:00PM
2020 Main Street
Cross Plains, Wisconsin
608&#45;798&#45;2080

	To entice you further, I grabbed some teaser clips from one of our rehearsals of some tunes we&#8217;ll be doing. Please come out, enjoy some good java, and let us entertain you.

	Lady Gaga&#8217;s &#8220;Bad Romance&#8221; all acoustic style:
Bad Romance mp3 

	Alanis Morissette&#8217;s &#8220;Hands Clean&#8221;
Hands Clean mp3 

	Lisa Hannigan &#38; Damien Rice&#8217;s &#8220;9 Crimes&#8221; (hope I make it through this one alive)
9 Crimes mp3

	And my personal favorite &#8220;Lille&#8221; again by Lisa Hannigan
Lille mp3]]></description>
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      <title>Adult Alphabet: The Letter I</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Back by popular demand is the Adult Alphabet series. We last left off on the letter &#8220;H&#8221; then life happened and production of this series halted. Halted, but not abandoned. Work has begun on the rest of the alphabets so please stay tuned.

	

	For now however, may I present to you: The Letter &#8220;I&#8221;

	

	Series: Adult Alphabet
Title: “I is for insomnia” (9 of 26)
Dimensions: 2 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in
Media: Acrylic &#38; Vintage Collage on Canvas
Year: 2011

	Special note: Please remember you can always purchase prints of this series (and others) over on redbubble if you so desire.]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2011-04-21T17:01:01-06:00</dc:date>
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      <title>An Art Show? Where?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Some exciting news to share! I&#8217;m sharing wall space over at Willy St Co&#45;op for Madison&#8217;s May 6th&#8217;s Gallery Night! Such a huge thanks goes out to them for this opportunity.

	

	This weekend I spent a good deal of time over at Willy Street Co&#45;Op hanging my art pieces on their wall. My dear friend Teresa was a lifesaver helping me every step of the way and I thank her for her patience and quick MacGyver&#45;like skills. After, we treated ourselves to some amazing Thai Food down the street at Ha Long Bay. Good times all around. Eating there is an absolute must. Next time I&#8217;m ordering from the Vietnamese side of the menu. It&#8217;s always a tough toss up between the two when there.

	(more)
The buildings on Willy St. are so cool. Willy Street itself is the life of the party. I love it there. I love the energy.

	
What resides inside these triangles is delicious creamed cheese madness.

	As for the the artwork, that will be up during all of April and May, so swing by and take a peek in the community room on your way outta the grocery checkout if you can. Two of my favorite things combined. Grocery stores and art! I&#8217;ll be there for Gallery Night on May 6th, so stop by and say &#8220;hi&#8221; then if you prefer. Or if you just want to see what it is I&#8217;m going on about from the comfort of your computer, I took some phone pics and you can enjoy the show that way.

	
This is what the wall looked like before we descended upon it.

	
I came prepared, but decisions had to be made. One was taking off my green striped shirt.

	
After some trial and error, fishing line, sky hooks and some swearing: mission accomplished.

	
The thing I dig the most about the wall space is that it looks like the outside of one of the buildings on Sesame Street.

	
Artwork tags applied to brick wall with foamcore and blue ticky tacky.

	
More tags, more foamcore, more blue ticky tacky.

	
Seriously, foamcore has it all going on.

	
I also utilized the windowsill. It&#8217;s a great place for canvas board pieces to rest.]]></description>
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      <title>The Best Sister In The World</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Today is my sister&#8217;s birthday. I remember when my grandmother handed me the phone and my dad was on the other end telling me I had a sister. That&#8217;s good because that&#8217;s what I put my order in for (having absolutely no idea how that sort of thing worked). What nobody prepared me for was the fact that this was going to be a baby sister and not an already made 5 year old like myself like I had envisioned. Still, April 1st, 1977 was the day I didn&#8217;t just get a sister, but a best friend and I&#8217;m sure without a doubt that *NOBODY* on this globe has a better sister than I do. 

	Happy Birthday, Cindy!

	Let&#8217;s celebrate with some photos, shall we?

	
Yes. This was our couch for many years. That&#8217;s the way things were back in the old days.
Here we are at the Milwaukee Public Zoo with my mom. My poor sister looks a little distressed. Wonder why?

	
I was always jealous of my sister&#8217;s naturally blonde hair. Was? I mean i still AM. Same parents too. What gives? That little boy in the photo is my cousin Mike, btw.

	
Those sailor suits rocked the casbah.

	
Here&#8217;s what we did a lot of together growing up. I&#8217;m glad this picture exists.

	
Ah. The family money shot. We were on our way to my All City Choir concert (those big blue ties were mandatory btw) My sister&#8217;s facial expression really and truly says it all.

	
And here we are in modern day times! Happy Birthday, Cindy!]]></description>
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      <title>Horn Tootage</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I was quite excited to discover that the folks over at Redbubble have featured one of my pieces, Secret Lives Of Mermaids, on their homepage today! Wasn&#8217;t expecting that whatsoever and I&#8217;m quite grateful.]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2011-03-09T15:05:00-06:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Studio Update: March 2, 2011</title>
      <link>http://carolkroll.com/blog/entry/art_update_march_2_2011/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[I said I would update with an art and music post specific. How about just an art post for now? For fans of the alphabet series, I promise you I have not abandoned it at the letter &#8220;H&#8221;. I just have had quite a demand for art cards and watercolor pieces and have been quite busy with those. That&#8217;s a good problem to have and I&#8217;m super thankful. The alphabets will come. I promise you that. And the alphabets will not be happy ones either. I promise you that as well.

	Rather than yammer on about all I didn&#8217;t do and have yet to do, I&#8217;ll just fill this empty space with what I&#8217;ve been working on. All of my pieces are always available as prints and cards over at Redbubble. Art cards (ACEO&#8217;s) and original art are available over at my Ebay store . Currently I&#8217;m trying to stock my Etsy store in case you go over there looking so please stay tuned. If you want to wear my art, or drink out of it, or need an iphone case(?) I&#8217;ve been slowly adding to my zazzle store as well. Feel free to always access these places from the ads or links provided on this site.

	And then there is the matter of new music. Hopefully that will show up in the next blog. I know some of you have been asking which always boosts my spirits.

	That&#8217;s it for now. I got some new yellow fish for my box of water last week, but that isn&#8217;t really noteworthy. Still, now you know.

	Enjoy!

	

	(for additional images click &#8220;more&#8221;)]]></description>
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      <title>Capitola Show: Saturday February 26, 2011</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hello again true believers! Sorry for the long pause in&#45;between blog posts here. I&#8217;m trying to protect myself and recover from the world&#8217;s ridiculousness by hiding in my studio and making art and music. That&#8217;s about as nicely as I can put it. Email me if you want specific examples. I&#8217;ll be glad to provide them.

	Next time I&#8217;ll update with a Carol Kroll art and music specific post, especially since I just purchased a DVD of 700 GarageBand loops that I&#8217;m super excited to start using. I needed some motivation and that was it. Sorry. That&#8217;s best I could muster lately.

	But today is all about The Capitola Review. The Capitola is putting on a gala event at the Coppertop Theater on the Richland Center University campus. I&#8217;m really looking forward to it of course. Yes, tickets are $20.00 at the door but please keep in mind this is a fundraiser for their arts program and we all promise to make it well worth your while. Quite the show we have planned, I&#8217;ll tell you that much.

	I&#8217;ll be performing Mary Gauthier&#8217;s Between Daylight and Dark along with providing backup vocals and harmonies for Mark Miskelly who will be performing Eric Bogle&#8217;s: Singing The Spirit Home and And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda

	And of course there are the many readers reading their beautiful writings that you won&#8217;t want to miss.

	Please come on out and support Capitola and the UW&#45;Richland Center Campus&#8217; arts program!

	Saturday, February 26, 2011
Time: 7:00pm
Coppertop Theater
UW&#45;Richland Center Campus
1200 Highway 14 West
Richland Center, WI 53581
608.647.6186]]></description>
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      <title>Capitola Show: Saturday February 12, 2011</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re in the Madison downtown area this fine February 12th, 2011th afternoon &#8211; come check out The Capitola Review at Avol&#8217;s Bookstore from 2:00pm &#8211; 4:00pm. I&#8217;ll be doing some tunes with the group including Jesse Sykes&#8217; ~ &#8220;Oh, My Girl&#8221; which is featured in Capitola&#8217;s current issue. It&#8217;s just a gorgeous song. Poetic and melancholy. Just the way I like it.

	

	There will also be another Capitola gala event at UW Richland Center February 26th, 2011. Details are still being firmed up and as soon as they are made available, I&#8217;ll post that info here there and everywhere along with where to purchase tickets.

	Today&#8217;s show, however, is FREE! Should be a great show. I&#8217;m really looking forward to it that&#8217;s for sure! Please come out and say hello. I&#8217;ll try snapping some pictures throughout the day. You can check that out in &#8220;real time&#8221; over at my twitter account if you are so inclined. Just a word of warning though. It won&#8217;t be as cool as being there (just sayin&#8217;)]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2011-02-12T15:45:00-06:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Hiding out&#8230;</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been hiding away from the world for most of 2011 making my things. It&#8217;s the only thing I&#8217;ve wanted to do lately (to be quite truthful) and I feel the trend will continue for some time. How long? No idea, but it&#8217;s what I need right now.

	Taking a brief intermission from finishing up the letter &#8220;I&#8221; in my Adult Alphabet series I&#8217;ve also been working on more art cards in the watercolor world. I think I&#8217;ve said before that going back and forth between the two very different mediums (not to mention subject matters) can be challenging but I think I&#8217;m getting the hang of the balance. The trick is not to have two much time in&#45;between the two (I&#8217;m finding out). Some of these cards are currently up for auction in case any strike your fancy, otherwise, enjoy! And stay tuned for the letter &#8220;I&#8221;.

	

	More&#8230;]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2011-01-20T21:58:00-06:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Adult Alphabet: The Letter H</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[New post for the new year. I waited a few days into 2011 because I was still hiding from 2010. And 2009. And part of 2008.

	In 2010 we left off on the letter G which brings us to the letter H. I also included a photo of what these individual pieces are starting to look like as a whole piece. I&#8217;ll take another progress shot around L,M,N,O,P. 

	Enjoy, and here&#8217;s to a brighter and more promising 2011.

	

	Series: Adult Alphabet
Title: “H is for hurt”
Dimensions: 2 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in
Media: Acrylic &#38; Vintage Collage on Canvas
Year: 2011

	Progress regarding the Adult Alphabet series as a whole. Click on photo to enlarge.]]></description>
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