(I just LOVE this picture, even though it's a bit overexposed. TEAM WORK!)

After I got the eyeballs glued on, she said I did a good job and that I should go to art school. She then had me put it up to my eyes so I could savor the rejuvenation of my eye sockets.

She thanked me for helping and then said I could take it with me. The whole time up there was a bit of a blur because I was so nervous. But it was so fun. She's so adorable and tiny in person. That will definitely be a memory to savor for years to come. I can now say I've crafted with Amy Sedaris!

 

My Mom isn't very camera-savvy, so she didn't really know what the do with my camera while I was up there and some guy in the row behind us helped her and somehow accidentally put the self-timer on. I could see that this had happened on stage (a light on the front flashes) and this kind of distracted me. So that's why there are only a couple of pictures of me on stage. Also the camera moved on the last one, and that's why our heads are kind of cut off haha.

I went back to my seat, feeling beyond giddy that I had made a craft with her and got to keep it! The eyeballs didn't stay on though, so I had to re-glue those later. ;) I'm thinking of getting a shadow box for it, because I think that would be hilarious.

 

(one of my favorite photos of the night)

She then displayed how to make a rick rack choker skills and said it provides for a nice suntan in the sun. She also promoted Paul Sedaris' barbecue sauce which was going to be sold there.

After this it was time for questions from the audience. A lot of them were the average kind of Q&A things that Amy seems to be asked frequently, but there were a few good ones.

• A lady asked about all the squirrels in the book and Amy explained her preoccupation with squirrels. "I like that they like nuts." "I like mice too because they're adorable."
  
  
• Somebody asked about what are good costumes for Halloween and Amy made fun of the girl's boots and said those would be a good costume. She said she doesn't really dress up for Halloween.
  
  
• Somebody asked about a local Raleigh shop called The Emporium and whether she had gotten a mushroom candle there.
  
  
• A lady asked about her rabbit, Dusty, and if she includes her in entertaining.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• There was an awkward moment where a woman asked about entertainment for a blind hostess. Amy didn't understand the question at first since it was vague. She then talks about how her brother Paul saw a blind person at a salad bar once.  "Come on that's funny."
  
  
• A woman asked her how she played such an unattractive character (meaning Jerri) and Amy gave her standard answer of how she likes ugly people that think they're pretty.
  
  
• Then the second part of the woman's question was funny. She said she had read her brother David's book Me talk Pretty One Day and asked "Did something happen in y'all's childhood?" Then Amy asked her how many siblings she had she said "Uh five or six."
  
  
• Someone asked what was next for Amy and she said she was working on a baby.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• A fun question was when someone asked if Amy could tell an embarrassing secret about Stephen Colbert. She said that "he thinks he's a really good cook. and he isn't, he's a horrible horrible cook. Finally  Paul Dinello and I after twelve years  finally sat him down and told him and he was devastated.  I have one of his recipes in the book, his nasty shrimp paste recipe. A new and improved one. So that really broke his heart."
  
  
• She then told another secret about him: "We were touring with Second City and I was back stage and I picked up a black book that said "diary" and it said 'last night I dreamt I was a dragonfly. I was like 'oh my god' and I went on stage and I used that. And again he was devastated."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• A guy asked about whether there were any other celebrities in the House Rabbit Society and how people reacted when she showed up to rabbit-proof. She mentioned Brian (Williams I assume) who she met at the Night of Too Many Stars who she talked about rabbits with.
  
  
• Someone asked about how the celebrities she knows (specifically Stephen Colbert) are like in person. She said he has a memory for tiny details and is just a really nice guy. She talks about Letterman and how he never talks to anyone. "He asked me if I ever did heroin and then took me on a trip to Mexico."
  
  
• A woman asked about why entertaining is important today since it is no longer entertaining for the husband's boss. Amy said she thinks it's important because "we're not even having conversations with people anymore."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
•  She said that Martha Stewart said Amy had modeled I Like You after one of Martha's old books "which is a lie."
  
  
• Someone asked what she missed about North Carolina. She said she missed the accents and the way people look.
  
  
• She talks about her favorite book by Susan Sheehan and how her brother is now promoting it so it's back in print she's turned her back on it.
  
  
• A guy asked what sort of product she would sell on QVC and she said "anything with googly eyes on it." She said she was asked to do a car commercial recently and how she thought that was hilarious.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• A woman asked about her favorite parties. She said she used to have bigger parties when her brother lived in the city.
  
  
• She was asked about Ricky and said she is now living with his ghost after he was stabbed eighteen times and suggested that other people try it.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• A guy asked about how she came up with the hideous Jerri expression. She talked about how she didn't want to rely on prosthetics because she thought that was cheating.
  
  
• Someone asked what her favorite munchie was listed. She said that her favorite was the chewed up a cracker and then spitting that out and using it as a topping for another cracker.