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Those polyester bell-bottoms your dad wore in the sixties?&amp;nbsp; Still in a land-fill somewhere...&lt;br /&gt;
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It&#39;s time to come out of hiding.&amp;nbsp; Have a look in the dresser, in the closet or the coat-rack.&amp;nbsp; I found some clothing labels that didn&#39;t exactly fill me with joy, but with a sense of dread.&amp;nbsp; That moment when you realize many of your clothes might have been made by slaves. Yuck.&amp;nbsp; The following two posts bring home the need for more re-using, buying local, investment in higher quality clothing and reducing spontaneous purchases. The posts are very well-written and eye-opening.&amp;nbsp; Kudos to Shannon Whitehead! &lt;br /&gt;
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Just because I found myself with five minutes on my hands, I did this show in between &quot;Hobbys&quot;, &quot;Sugar Baby&quot;, &quot;Herta Hunderthosen&quot; and &quot;That Other Theater&quot;.&amp;nbsp; You can check out the trailer we did back in January for a little taste.&amp;nbsp; It opens this Thursday and plays for two weeks!&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.semi-circle.ch/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Click here for Semi-Circle&#39;s website.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Bern is a quaint seaside resort in the middle of a land-locked country.&amp;nbsp; Here&#39;s what I have in my bag I&#39;m taking to Bern: beach chairs, volley ball net, sand, bonfire, tent, sleeping bag, sand, towels, dirt, water bottles, beer cans, sun hat, sarong, sand, badminton rackets, birdies, wind-breaker, cut offs, roller blades, soccer ball and sand, tennis shoes, camera, computer, frisbee, script, notes, cob-webs, picnic blanket, inflatable boat, oars, apron, armbands and sand.&amp;nbsp; Sounds like a day off, n&#39;est-ce pas?&amp;nbsp; You have no excuse not to visit!&amp;nbsp; &lt;i&gt;Neue Hobbys Braucht das Land!&lt;/i&gt; is an original production written (in German), directed by and starring Michael Steiner, Andy Tobler and Katrine Veith.&amp;nbsp; The three grapple with starting a free-time association and their different hobbies with enjoyable and adverse déroulement.&amp;nbsp; FYI: I&#39;m doing the props and costumes so I think it&#39;s appropriate here to say thank you to all my friends and neighbors who generously helped contribute with the offer of the things they were going to give to the Salvation Army anyway.&amp;nbsp; Thank you!&lt;br /&gt;
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In the Keller Theater of the Schlachthaus in Bern, it premieres this Wednesday and only plays four nights: 11-14 April.&lt;br /&gt;
More info at the Schlachthaus website here:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.schlachthaus.ch/spielplan/detail.php?spielpunkt_id=2432&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Neue Hobbies Braucht das Land!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Wish you were here,&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs Crocodile&lt;br /&gt;
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One of the nicest things anyone has ever said about me was that I was  
able to think outside a box.  That&#39;s a fabulous expression isn&#39;t it?  I 
 would bet money that we all do most of our best thinking 
&lt;/style&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;One of the nicest things you could say to some artistic types is this:&lt;/span&gt; &quot;I really like how you think outside the box.&quot;&amp;nbsp; Be careful it might come out sounding like a pick up line.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/b&gt;I&#39;m willing to bet my hard earned artistic cash, that most of our thinking occurs &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;physically&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;   outside of boxes, on long walks, in the swimming pool, going up or  down  mountains, attached by the feet to long flat sticks called skis,  gazing  out of train windows, even inside of our shoebox abodes.&amp;nbsp; Here  are some  of the initial ideas for some Shadow Box moods and costumes,  they  didn&#39;t always fit in the little boxes.&amp;nbsp; &lt;strike&gt;Insert emoticon  here &lt;/strike&gt;______.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;If somebody asks me: &quot;Do you have a hobby?&quot;&amp;nbsp; I don&#39;t like my answer because &quot;Cutting stuff up into little pieces&quot; comes out sounding mental.&amp;nbsp; This is why I&#39;d like to express a very big THANK YOU to everyone who came to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://imprimerie-basel.ch/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Schleiferei&lt;/a&gt; last night to eat together and midwife the birth of my characters in the story of Frau Herta Hunderthosen.&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nicolaia.ch/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Actress and Director Nicolaia Marston&lt;/a&gt; read the voices of the characters, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.upstart-entertainment.ch/index.cfm?pageID=51&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Producer Andrew Fernandes&lt;/a&gt; cooked the best grub this side of the Ganges and the Salon was organized by the delightful Costume Designer &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vorstadttheaterbasel.ch/cms/front_content.php?idart=259&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Eva Butzkies&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Everyone said incredibly nice things about my passion for cutting stuff up and thoroughly encouraged me to continue.&amp;nbsp; It&#39;s times like these when having the creative bug, a pair of scissors and a whole heap of &lt;strike&gt;poor&lt;/strike&gt; hungry creative friends is wildly worth it.&amp;nbsp; And get this: nobody thought I was mental!&lt;br /&gt;
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Not many people actually ask me if I have a hobby.&amp;nbsp; I encourage you to ask this question more often.&amp;nbsp; Repeat after me:&lt;br /&gt;
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&quot;Hi!&amp;nbsp; I&#39;m (fill in the blank).&amp;nbsp; Nice to meet you!&amp;nbsp; What are your passions?&quot;&amp;nbsp; Now go ask everyone at the next bus-stop. &lt;br /&gt;
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Frau Herta Hunderthosen is born.&amp;nbsp; She is passionate about dresses.&amp;nbsp; Goodness knows I&#39;ve got to DO something with her. &lt;br /&gt;
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Stay tuned...&lt;br /&gt;
Yours,&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs Crocodile &lt;br /&gt;
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If you want to do something that would fill me with joy, go see &quot;Das Kind von Noah&quot;&amp;nbsp; by Eric Emmanuel-Schmitt now playing in German in Theater Stok, Zürich.&amp;nbsp; It&#39;s a beautiful story about, guess what? A collector.&amp;nbsp; It is a story of empathy and courage, put on by Theater 58, directed by Elmar Schubert, starring Bodo Krumweide, Pascal Jordan and Stefan Kollmuss, Costumes by me; they travel all over Switzerland.&amp;nbsp; So instead of putting gummi-things in my mailbox, here are the dates:&lt;br /&gt;
Mi. 25.01.12 20.00 Zürich, Theater Stok&lt;br /&gt;
Do. 26.01.12 20.00 Zürich, Theater Stok&lt;br /&gt;
Fr. 27.01.12 20.00 Zürich, Theater Stok&lt;br /&gt;
Sa. 28.01.12 20.00 Zürich, Theater Stok&lt;br /&gt;
So. 29.01.12 19.00 Zürich, Theater Stok&lt;br /&gt;
31 31.01.12 20.00 Hechingen D, Stadtsaal &lt;br /&gt;
Fr. 10.02.12 20.00 Uster ZH, Qtopia &lt;br /&gt;
Sa. 11.02.12 20.00 Uster ZH, Qtopia &lt;br /&gt;
Do. 08.03.12 20.00 Thun, Alte Oele &lt;br /&gt;
Sa. 17.03.12 20.00 Klosters GR, Kulturschuppen&lt;br /&gt;
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And by the way, happy joyful 2012,&lt;br /&gt;
Yours,&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs-at-least-I-still-have-all-my-teeth-&quot;Gummi&quot;-Crocodile&lt;br /&gt;
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The first boy I&#39;m in love with, whose head is shaped like a triangle and speaks with an American accent, is very creative and is always dreaming up stuff like roller-coasters.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
His brother, who I also have a crush on and whose head is very long-shaped, almost never talks, but when he does his accent is English, is the mastermind.&amp;nbsp; Strangely he reminds me of my engineer grandfather.&amp;nbsp; He can pull a tiny scrap of paper out of his back pocket, unfold it 20 times and brandish the blue-print for the roller-coaster which starts at one end of town, snakes around across town and comes back several times. &amp;nbsp; They get working on it.&amp;nbsp; They build it.&amp;nbsp; Their mom never finds out and it all gets cleared up magically.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
They are some of the most creative kids I know, actually step brothers, called Phineas and Ferb.&amp;nbsp; They are animated.&amp;nbsp; And they have a pet  platypus who is a secret agent.&amp;nbsp; Haven&#39;t you always imagined your pet was a spy?&amp;nbsp; So obviously my number one reason for being a mom today?&amp;nbsp; Watching old episodes of Phineas and Ferb.&lt;br /&gt;
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A blogger I happened to really enjoy checking out, in a blogeuristic-(rhymes with voyeuristic) kind of way, stopped posting, and I was sad.&amp;nbsp; It was a death.&lt;br /&gt;
Now you can clear your throat and say: &quot;I&#39;m sorry&quot;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
My main motivation for spending my precious time living other people&#39;s lives, just suddenly, wasn&#39;t there anymore.&amp;nbsp; What to do?&amp;nbsp; I stopped reading blogs.&amp;nbsp; I stopped blogging.&amp;nbsp; I moved on from fantasizing about &lt;i&gt;other&lt;/i&gt; people&#39;s lives.&amp;nbsp; I lived life.&amp;nbsp; I got a life.&amp;nbsp; Oh my.&amp;nbsp; It does sound awful.&amp;nbsp; I&#39;m feeling very tired again.&amp;nbsp; So tired I think I&#39;ll go back to sleep.&lt;br /&gt;
Sing me a lullaby.&amp;nbsp; Sing me a sweet, sweet lullaby.&lt;br /&gt;
Your favorite croco...zzzzz....ile...zzz....&lt;br /&gt;
PS if you are really wondering what I&#39;ve been up to lately, click here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mrscrocodile.com/&quot;&gt;www.mrscrocodile.com&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; It&#39;s the newly renovated Mrs Crocodile web-site&lt;br /&gt;
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The poor &quot;man&quot;-nequin in the picture has these ivy leaves nailed onto his styro-foam, headless shape.&amp;nbsp; But that&#39;s okay, I can only assume that being headless and styro-foam might add something to the camo effect and the show I&#39;m costuming in my mind.&amp;nbsp; It would be good too if the actresses could carry these headless guys around as props and talked to them, right?&amp;nbsp; I may be deluded in my take on it, but I like it like that.&amp;nbsp; Come to think of it, I&#39;ll take a whopping helping of delusion any day over a plain old reality sandwich.&lt;br /&gt;
Yours,&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs Croco&lt;br /&gt;
PS These mannequins live at Parfumerie Haycinth in Basel, Switzerland&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mrs Croc: &quot;What are you  wearing?&quot;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Simone: &quot;Black and white polka dot dress and butterfly brooch,  H&amp;amp;M;&lt;br /&gt;
&quot;Dorothy, the Wizard of Oz&quot; shoe necklace, online shop,  home-made stuff, USA;&lt;br /&gt;
Feather Earrings, feathers in hair, black  gloves, black handbag, Claire&#39;s Accessories, Basel;&lt;br /&gt;
Leggings with  roses, Coop/Nulu, Basel;&lt;br /&gt;
Ankle boots, you young convoy: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eboutic.ch/&quot;&gt;www.eboutic.ch&lt;/a&gt; half price;&lt;br /&gt;
Heart Balloon, Blume 2000, SBB Basel, Central  Train Station.&quot; &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Mrs Croc: If you could wear  anything in the world regardless of cost, time period etc., what would  it be?&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/b&gt;Simone&lt;b&gt;: &lt;/b&gt;&quot;The real sparkly red shoes Dorothy wore in the Wizard of  Oz.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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AH!  Your eyes, like two apple fritters.  And your mouth like a 
designer armchair, although my eye is where my nose is, I&#39;ll follow you 
and we&#39;ll have a wonderful time  Yes darlinks me thinks it&#39;s time for 
the power of positive thinking again...and going fast down hill.
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Dear Readers, Just back from the Mrs Croco skin-peeling, and restructuring the subconscious of a reptile--which takes longer than you might think, and other busy-ness stuff.&amp;nbsp; I hope you enjoyed your little blogiday from&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Introducing: Gallerie Muc: the latest of Art Basel&#39;s spin off events.&amp;nbsp; Gallerie Muc&#39;s founder, Coco Crocodile, speaking in an unidentifiable accent from a country-formerly-called-home, had this to say about the gallery&#39;s upcoming show, &lt;i&gt;Pushing Buttons&lt;/i&gt;: &quot;This show deals with pressing issues I feel the world needs to know, like why you should never show a six-year-old how to use the enlarge function on your color photocopier.&quot; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
The show is set to coincide with the opening of Art Basel.&amp;nbsp; We contacted the artist, who prefers to be known only as &lt;i&gt;Alla&lt;/i&gt; and asked where she gets her ideas: &quot;I tried pushing buttons.&amp;nbsp; I didn&#39;t know what I was doing actually.&amp;nbsp; I can&#39;t read.&amp;nbsp; Very well.&amp;nbsp; But my mom showed me what all the buttons do and then how to enlarge stuff and well, now I&#39;m famous.&amp;nbsp; Mom keeps complaining that the budget for toner has gone through the roof and that it&#39;s cutting into the mac and cheese budget.&amp;nbsp; I think she thought kids were just supposed to sit around playing Fruit Ninja on her iphone till we grew up&quot;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&quot;Untitled&quot; by Alla Crocodile, Basel, 2011, &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&quot;I was kind of thinking maybe I might like to try my hand at art.&amp;nbsp; Oh never mind!&quot;&amp;nbsp; Just throw your hands up and realize that Resistance is Futile.&amp;nbsp; One day you wake up, and all your friends are doing some kind of art or creative job and you have to jump in too, even the children rope you in there.&amp;nbsp; I have tried to get Alla and Kazam to clean up their messes, but the &quot;messes&quot; just keep getting more creative.&amp;nbsp; When Alla was 12 months old it started with spaghetti sauce in circles on the wall next to her high chair and has continued till I realized last night that Alla had a roll of masking tape in her hand and was taping a paper towel to the bars on the balcony.&amp;nbsp; Once she finished she stepped back form her work and declared, &quot;Mommy, you are not allowed to clean this up, you have to watch it blow in the wind.&quot;&amp;nbsp; The tone of her voice was the thing that brought me back to the here and now and I was able to respond, &quot;Oh!&amp;nbsp; How perfect.&amp;nbsp; It&#39;s almost Art Basel.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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So since Spring has hit in all her Glory, I encourage you to be a  Lebenskünstler (masculine) or Lebenskünstlerin (feminine), at least for one day or maybe for  the rest of the year...&lt;br /&gt;
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Joanne does defend herself and say to &lt;a href=&quot;http://mrscroc.blogspot.com/2011/04/maureen-rhymes-with-colleen.html&quot;&gt;Maureen&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;I&#39;m not a theater person&quot; But yes, you are, my dear Jo Ann (different spelling intentional here), you are more theater than most of us.&amp;nbsp; And we love that!&amp;nbsp; In Semi-Circle&#39;s production of RENT, Joanne will be played by Ariane Wildberger.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
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I&#39;m only writing this to help my readers stave off total and complete depression from not yet having found a prince or princess.&amp;nbsp; So:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;1)&amp;nbsp; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Get out of your lonely tower and stop cleaning and start watching the trees grow&lt;/b&gt;.&amp;nbsp; This is enormously satisfying, as long as you stay in one place long enough.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;2) &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Watch that bit where he puts the ring on her finger&lt;/b&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Wasn&#39;t that great?&amp;nbsp; In Hollywood, the ring slips right on. &amp;nbsp; Isn&#39;t it nice that it was so hard for William to get in on?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;3) You can always be happy!&amp;nbsp; &lt;/b&gt;Because your first, second, third, forth and fifth weddings combined, will never be as expensive as theirs.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;4) Brighten up! &lt;/b&gt;Because if Wills doesn&#39;t start with some kind of hair-enhancing product soon, we will have Yul Brynner as the King of England, now wouldn&#39;t that be nice?&amp;nbsp; We could all sing!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;5) Don&#39;t worry!&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; You will find your prince or princess.&lt;br /&gt;
Yours, singing and cleaning up the muck, talking to birds and mice and generally acting like a princess&lt;br /&gt;
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Faithful readers from the embryonic stages of my blog will remember a time when I waxed lyrical about cutting up fabric or used a chain saw to get aggressions out.&amp;nbsp; Sadly, people have been asking me to make stuff with my hands rather than destroy it, so I&#39;m forced to blog to cut up language.&amp;nbsp; Like fabric, utterances are pliable and unlike fabric you don&#39;t have to sweep up the schnipples of the loose words after you write.&amp;nbsp; So feel free to imagine me standing in the middle of a picturesque, quiet, not just neat, but orderly Swiss street, belting this out: &quot;GO AN&#39; SHOE YOURSELF THEN!&quot; (an utterance which is not all four letter words, but I took the &quot;d&quot; off &quot;and&quot; so you can divide it by four).&amp;nbsp; Now you try it.&amp;nbsp; It helps.&lt;br /&gt;
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I hope this gets you somewhere in the anger department today.&amp;nbsp; While we are on the subject, &quot;cutting up fabric&quot; is not a four letter word, but TEAR is.&amp;nbsp; Oh and the picture up top is of the NANOs that Alla and Kazam banged up with a hammer.&amp;nbsp; Is that FAIR?&amp;nbsp; They were not even angry, just curious.&lt;br /&gt;
So here I am again, ripping at the seams of a project that never should have been SEWN! at midnight.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs Crocodile&lt;br /&gt;
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