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To contact The Gypsy Kiss for any
other reason, or if you're a vendor
that wants Raven to review your art
and possibly sell it, please feel free
to drop us a line at:
raven@thegypsykiss.com
Please make your subject line read,
"Gypsykiss Question", to avoid our
junkmail filters! Thanks!!!
other reason, or if you're a vendor
that wants Raven to review your art
and possibly sell it, please feel free
to drop us a line at:
raven@thegypsykiss.com
Please make your subject line read,
"Gypsykiss Question", to avoid our
junkmail filters! Thanks!!!
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and we'll keep you close to our heart on our
private email list! (Never sold. Gypsies
keep our secrets.)
and we'll keep you close to our heart on our
private email list! (Never sold. Gypsies
keep our secrets.)
As a little girl, loved playing dress up and adventure games equally. I’m
not a tomboy – I’m a complete woman, nothing left out. My beautiful
mother taught me what a gift it is to be a woman – with all the trappings –
her accoutrements collection includes a plethora of beautiful high heels, at
least 30 lipsticks at any given time, and many lovely, handmade items of
clothing. But she also is an accomplished painter (usually to be found
working furiously on her newest gorgeous piece, wearing a paint smeared
pair of jeans and a comfy button down, and not answering her phone ‘til
she’s good and ready!).
At over 70, she carts her paints and heavy easel all over the countryside
(America and Italy), to get the best view of waterfalls, flower strewn
meadows, and playing children. As a girl, she hung upside down from a
homemade trapeze (by her heels, she claims!), rode her bike all over town
(it was too big for her, and a boy’s bike, so when she started, she’d jump
onto it from a porch. When she was ready to get off, she just had to let it
fall!), and begged her parents to take her to two tap dancing lessons,
which was all she was allowed – and she still remembers all the steps for
“Tea for Two” that she learned there. She’s performed it for me recently.
She’s a complete woman – and has always taught me to be all the things
that I find inside me. This has made me a little bit on the quirky side – I
believe ‘eccentric’ is the word we use here in Wisconsin!
not a tomboy – I’m a complete woman, nothing left out. My beautiful
mother taught me what a gift it is to be a woman – with all the trappings –
her accoutrements collection includes a plethora of beautiful high heels, at
least 30 lipsticks at any given time, and many lovely, handmade items of
clothing. But she also is an accomplished painter (usually to be found
working furiously on her newest gorgeous piece, wearing a paint smeared
pair of jeans and a comfy button down, and not answering her phone ‘til
she’s good and ready!).
At over 70, she carts her paints and heavy easel all over the countryside
(America and Italy), to get the best view of waterfalls, flower strewn
meadows, and playing children. As a girl, she hung upside down from a
homemade trapeze (by her heels, she claims!), rode her bike all over town
(it was too big for her, and a boy’s bike, so when she started, she’d jump
onto it from a porch. When she was ready to get off, she just had to let it
fall!), and begged her parents to take her to two tap dancing lessons,
which was all she was allowed – and she still remembers all the steps for
“Tea for Two” that she learned there. She’s performed it for me recently.
She’s a complete woman – and has always taught me to be all the things
that I find inside me. This has made me a little bit on the quirky side – I
believe ‘eccentric’ is the word we use here in Wisconsin!
| What Gypsy Means to Me |
I’m a single mother of three, never happy at any job but
entrepreneurship. I design unusual jewelry in a wide scope of styles –
from fairy luminescent and light, to earthy and primitive. I go on sewing
sprees and my children and I don’t see my kitchen table for months
under the rainbow of cloth and trim. I’m a belly dance and vaudeville-
style performer and instructor, a poet, a dreamer, a singer, and a
wannabe fiddle player. I like long, swirly skirts, peacock feathers, and I
collect stones. That’s my brand of Gypsy. What’s yours?
We may have no Roma ancestors - I’m rather unromantically German.
But the idea of the footloose traveling Gypsies has always caught my
imagination, dancing and fiddling their way through the countryside. Not
always accepted – in fact, usually ridiculed and oppressed for their
transience and quirky forms of art, I identify with the very romantic and
tragic idea of “Gypsy” on a deep level. We may not fit in, but we always
stand out. And when we move on to the next stop on our journey, they’ll
remember us for who we are.
entrepreneurship. I design unusual jewelry in a wide scope of styles –
from fairy luminescent and light, to earthy and primitive. I go on sewing
sprees and my children and I don’t see my kitchen table for months
under the rainbow of cloth and trim. I’m a belly dance and vaudeville-
style performer and instructor, a poet, a dreamer, a singer, and a
wannabe fiddle player. I like long, swirly skirts, peacock feathers, and I
collect stones. That’s my brand of Gypsy. What’s yours?
We may have no Roma ancestors - I’m rather unromantically German.
But the idea of the footloose traveling Gypsies has always caught my
imagination, dancing and fiddling their way through the countryside. Not
always accepted – in fact, usually ridiculed and oppressed for their
transience and quirky forms of art, I identify with the very romantic and
tragic idea of “Gypsy” on a deep level. We may not fit in, but we always
stand out. And when we move on to the next stop on our journey, they’ll
remember us for who we are.
Amy, owner of The Gypsy Kiss
Amy as Raven the Gypsy Dancer
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