The Carol Duvall Show - My Very First Appearance

My very first appearance on "The Carol Duvall Show." It taped here at Media City in Burbank, CA. It was a pretty nondescript building in a residential neighborhood. The story is on my blog here somewhere of how it all came to be. I originally flew out to do one segment but when Carol heard the story of my polymer clay business, she also wanted me to do a segment for the show she was doing on the business of crafting.

 

                                I was so excited to see my name on the dressing room door.

The business segment was taped first and it was pretty easy with me just answering Carol's questions. Next came the polymer clay sock monkey segment. I had no idea what to do. I had never been on television before let alone demonstrating on television. But Holly, my producer, guided me the whole time.

I came in the day before to set up my segment and get all the step outs ready. I came in the next morning to find that someone (the husband of another guest) had put a board on my table crushing my sock monkey heads. Holly was a trooper and helped me make the pancakes back into heads. She was none too pleased and neither was I. Here we are setting up for the segment. That's my nervous smile. Rocketman never missed a taping and I'm so thankful because I have lots of photos to look at now.

 The segment went off without a hitch and we had a picture taken of us with my first book. It wasn't even ready yet but the publisher flew in a cover so Carol could hold it up at the end of the segment. And if you didn't notice, that's still my nervous smile. I was still nervous even though I was done and it had gone great.

We invited Holly out to dinner and it was the beginning of a close friendship that remains today. She knows all the restaurants with the most delicious food in Los Angeles.

Carol was gracious enough to pose for a picture (and many more to come). We are still close today. She is a great mentor and I feel so blessed to know her.

This was my dressing room and I'm telling Rocketman, "I'm hungry, let's go!" I made so many friends from the staff to fellow guests and it always feels like a reunion when we run into each other like at CHA.

The Carol Duvall Show

I was very lucky to be able to appear on HGTV's The Carol Duvall Show for ten season. Twice or even three times a year, I would fly to Burbank, California to tape segments for the show. I would always carry on the plane what I needed in order to demo my projects. I was also able to sharethe experience with my husband who was able to travel with me for all my tapings. All my segments were projects in polymer clay.


Linda did the hair and makeup. She was fantastic and such a sweet girl who always had bright smile to greet me.


This segment I was demoing a turtle eraser clay project. You also had to make additional projects for the show to give the viewers more ideas.

Remember Carol's sock monkey in some of the opening scenes? This is one of the puppet masters.

This was a photo holder and it even turned into a book with Leisure Arts.

A picture of the set.

This was polymer clay covered votives. I was demoing the octopus.

Ian was the stage manager and he always made me feel at ease.

Kellly, the teleprompter girl. I've never seen anyone type so fast.

Sometimes there was time between segments during which Carol and I could engage in some girl talk. She gave me great advice and I took to heart everything that she told me.

Picture being taken for the HGTV website.

I was lucky enough to be in two of Carol's Live Christmas Shows. They were so much fun because it was the only time the show had a studio audience.

One of segments I did was a snowman beadpen.

Here is a picture of the audience at one of the Christmas tapings.

I miss those days and I'm so glad the Carol and I didn't lose touch through the years. In fact, she wrote the foreword to my book that will be out in September.