Frugal Miscellany

Got through V Day frugally - printed out a card from the Internet - and added gold to is with a gold marker - and put it on my "virtual bouquet" - which was a decorative piece (of ribbon and feathers and a cupid, actually) which I cut out of one of my fancy free magazines.  Then I mounted it with spray adhesive to some cardboard I had saved, and cut it all out, making sure to keep "feathery" edges.  I embellished that with gold here & there, too.

Then I mounted it on a wire leaf holder that I have picked up at the Cost Plus sale for $.69 - and voila! a virtual bouquet. (As I said, I added the valentine I had printed out, too.)  I really like the idea and think I will use it some more.  You could even make one in pieces and send it through the mail.  Perfect for offices as no watering is required!  And really, any photo holder will do as a stand.

A large branch of the big old jade plant outside in the strip of garden broke off from its own weight - and since I couldn't bear to see it there lying on the ground, I broke off little branches and planted them.  I brought 2 upstairs and put them in empty pots in my garden sink near kitchen.  And then I put some outside in a few places, too.  I put some in a garden pot full of soil that has been on the edge of the stairs for ages with nothing in it  - and I also planted some in some bare spots in the garden.  Let them think the gardener did it! 

We will see how many of them "catch" and grow.  I have really never tried this transplanting before myself.  But I understand that succulents are VERY easy to take cuttings from and transplant.  And they certainly flourish in our bit of garden.

On another note - I read in a group I am in on Linkedin.com about the problems of leading a frugal acting career - I commented that since I have always been broke I know it is possible - and that I have honed my skills enough to write this blog.

Really, actors are such suckers and everyone out here is after their hard-earned $ - giving them the impression that that will solve their problems. The reality is that actors I have known who were working didn't have expensive pictures or anything.  They had talent, luck, skill and connections.  I for one will be starting my FREE acting class at Santa Monica Emeritus College with Barbara Gannen. - The only catch here is the drive over there and the fight with traffic at rush hour on the way back - That is exhausting.

Gee, I have done so much myself - my own PR - which I initially learned for the theatre I had - I have always typed out my own resumes - and lately my photographer friends have been nice enough to take pictures for me - so much easier now with digital cameras! I even edited my own reel using jumpcut.com! There was a learning curve, but it wasn't impossible to do - and I got as good a reel as if I had spent hundreds of dollars. on it. 

So MUCH can be done on one's home computer nowadays.  You can edit/crop pix using the FREE Picasa from Google - You can do video auditions using your computer's little camera....or your own digital camera - You can make sound files for voice work - And you can send all these electronically!  It's amazing.

There is a moral there somewhere about being as much DIY as you can manage - especially with electronic tools. But I carry over that DIY to as much of my life as I can manage - and it saves a LOT of $ for me.  (And the rest is BARGAINS.)

Oh, I am including the 2 Cents' pic which is from BlueQ.com indirectly from skirt.com today - so I am borrowing heavily - but it just felt so "right". (It really is a coin purse you could buy, too....)

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