It has been a crazy good week. I got kudos and a good review at the day job. I also managed to repair and upgrade my laptop to hold out until I can get a new one later in the year.
And today I FINALLY can release the BIG NEWS! I got a peek of my feature with St. Louis Magazine!! I’ll be posting the link and more info as it becomes available. Here’s a sneak peek at the article coming out shortly:
I have a most interesting job… In the morning room.
And speaking of the magazine, I would appreciate your nomination for St. Louis Magazine’s A-List in the author category (type in Victoria L. Szulc please)! https://www.stlmag.com/alist
More exciting things going on. Watch this space!
As always, thank you for reading,
–Victoria
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First, as always, I am so grateful that you’re following my blog and supporting my art and writing.
It’s hard work being a creative; a constant struggle of making concepts come to life, promoting them, and hopefully, someone enjoys what you do and buys that painting, that book, that CD, sees your performance, and gives you a stellar review.
Early last year I put out some pieces for competition that I liked, but didn’t quite have that full treatment or polish. But by the end of the year, I’d finished one of favorite pieces ever, “A Dream of Emerald Skies”. It’s selling okay, but getting really good reviews!
It’s in several competitions, one of which I’m supposed to hear something soon. So I appreciate your continued support and faith in my work. I am blessed to do what I love.
A little faith has brought me here. A lot of faith will take me farther.
As always, thank you for reading,
-Victoria
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Happy New Year! I did a 2019 top 10 things I liked. Share your top 10, fave song, movie, tv show, concert, book, event.
Here’s mine:
1) Song: “Circles” by Post Malone. I’m late to the Post party, but this song has a delightfully smooth cruising groove. I highly recommend the video as well, especially if you’re into Ren stuff. I also liked most of what Lizzo put out. And The Cog is Dead’s version of Billie Elian’s “Bad Guy” was amazing.
2) Concert: Panic at the Disco! Brendon Urie is ultra talented and it showed through his and his band’s whole performance. The stage lighting and graphics were brilliant and well executed. I also enjoyed Adam Ant.
3) Other Event: Wicked the Musical. I saw it for the second time at the Fox Theatre. This show inspires me in more ways than I can count. I was not disappointed.
4) Sport Event: The St. Louis Blues winning three Stanley Cup. It was their turn, and they won it in spectacular fashion, from worst to first. The US Womens WC win was pretty damn exciting as well.
5) Favorite New Food/Restaurant: Mayo Ketchup in Lafayette took over one of my favorites, Laredo. I was sad to see Laredo go, but Mayo is amazing with delicious food in a relaxed atmosphere.
6) Movie: Avengers. Yeah I cried. Several times. And Captain Marvel was so fantastic. A lot of people forgot about Bird Box. That movie scared the crap outta me, well done.
7) TV Show: A TIE! The Masked Singer was delightfully corny. And a steampunk fox revealed to be Wayne Brady, won the most recent season. Carnival Row was a knockout. Visually stunning with a cast of characters woven into a well polished plot. Said good bye to Poldark, continuing to enjoy Victoria and 9-1-1 on Fox.
8) Game: I’m not a gamer, but yep, I downloaded the Harry Potter app. Loved it.
9) Best thing that happened to me: moved and started my new position at the Museum AND making St. Louis Magazine’s A-List in the author category.
10) Resolution: start what I finish. Especially when it comes to books. I started no less then 3 books and am just now getting around to finishing reading them. Part of that is due to flu which gave me some needed rest.
I got type A flu on Christmas Day evening and have been in recovery since then. Starting to feel better. Yes, I’m sitting on some big news, but I’ll get to tell you all about it in early January!
I just wanted to take this opportunity to wish all my readers a Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas.
What ever holiday you celebrate, I wish you much peace and joy. I am so very very grateful for you my readers and patrons of my art.
I’ve got such a backlog of really nifty events. So I’ll be posting a lot of things out of order BUT it will be all kinds of fun photos and stuff. Very little promo!
Speaking of promo, thanks for your support! “The Body Farm” and “A Dream of Emerald Skies” both did well.
Thanks for the ranks!
I appreciate the reads and reviews! The Body Farm is in Amazon’s 2019 Pen to Publish competition, so any reads and reviews are appreciated.
So, other than Garden Glow and routine tours of the Museum, my special holiday tours of the season are over.
I promised a little more of costume #2 for Halloween which was a modified Victorian gown. It was a black costume Victorian dress. I took off the faux vest front, aproned the front, bustled the back, pleated the trim, added to the cuffs, and expanded the sleeves. I also altered a hat and a sleeveless shirt into a capelet. I had a ton of fun, especially standing in the kitchen and casually surprising guests in the kitchen. Details and then the resulting costume:
Then after Halloween, we went straight into the Christmas tours at Campbell House and Glow at the Botanical Gardens:
Full Moon over MoBot!
Me in a red costume Victorian dress showing off the stunning Campbell House Museum:
I also did another shoot in the Museum, however, I wasn’t the photographer AND the results are going to be a massive surprise for mid-January! So keep watching!
Many changes and good things are happening. Event dates for 2020 are coming as well.Thank you for your support!
And as always, thank you for reading,
Victoria
-BOOKS, all my books are on Amazon, but I am slowly going wide on Kobo, iBooks, Barnes and Noble online, Google Books, and others. Locally, some of my titles are at Dunaway Books.
I’m lucky to work for two great historical institutions. At the Campbell House Museum last weekend, we were part of a region wide house tour. We had two lovely ladies join us from the St. Louis Georgian Sewing Society:
Lovely in the parlor!
And MoBot has Garden Glow going on:
Full moon over the Garden!
And the Butterfly House has Winter Jewels with fairy gardens in the Observatory:
