Does she really look like what she appears on TV? No, she does not. When I would watch her show I thought she looked average height, maybe a little less than average weight, nice looking. Actually she is much slimmer and taller. Yep, just who I wanted to stand next to. And she is prettier than she appears on TV. She has very delicately pretty features, which I don't think come across as much on TV as in person. How you look on TV is very different from how you look in person. At this point I would really like to state I am taller, thinner and much younger than I appear on TV but that would really be artistic license. I know I certainly had to have quite a bit of makeup on me for the filming (I've never worn so much makeup in my life and that includes my wedding day). Lucky for me they had a makeup artist there.

Several funny things did happen during the filming of my segment. In one scene I am showing how to dye the fulled wool using boiling water. So they set up a hot plate with boiling water in a clear glass pot. So you can see the dye water in the pot, plus all the steam. LOTS of steam. I hope they can edit some of that steam out.

Another time Alex asked me a question and I knew we were running tight on time so I answered, "Yep." She asked me another question and I answered, "Nope." Then we broke for a change (Alex left for a short time) whereupon my mother, who was in the audience, stormed on the set, right in my face and said, "What's with this yep and nope?! I didn't raise a hillbilly! Watch your language!" and she stormed back to her seat, muttering to herself. They promised they'd edit that out also.

To see the crazy pieced wool block I was demonstrating on Simply Quilts, plus info about the two other newbies being filmed that day, click here.