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Just For Fun #EHMO

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Extreme Home Make Over – Wichita/Schulte edition airs Sunday, April 17th…..Don’t miss it.  As part of the seamstress team my business Cochran & Rogers donated lots of time to help whip the fabric surfaces of the Carl Hall home into shape.  You already know we had fun and since everything has to be a surprise I’m trying to share but still not reveal a darn thing.  It’s hard.  But I wanted to share some of my favorite pictures before the episode airs just so you can spot some familiar faces when you watch.  (By the way I just checked ABC’s site and they are teasing a different episode for Sunday!! We’ll see!)

My Business Partner, Sally Rogers, proving to me that from her nose to fingertip, and my nose to fingertip are about one yard each.  (Fabric trick seamstresses have long known, but newbie Cochran FINALLY believes.)  Taken at Hancock’s who helped us immensely with fabric. (including both Wichita stores, Kansas City and Tulsa!)

 

 

 

Look how MUCH we bought, and this is just one little (okay BIG) load.  It took so much just for the few things we did, I can’t imagine how many items were needed for the entire HOUSE.

 

 

A couple of Needle Chicks showing local donor, Paul Atwater, what it was we needed him to find us some money for.  He did and in no time at all we had it.  Thanks Paul.

 

 

 

Me sewing, YES, you actually are NOT seeing things.  The two things I made may not have even made it into the final show.  I’ll give you a hint, they were the easiest thing the fabrication team whipped up, and they were Black.

 

 

Even the boss can have a little fun.  This little item did make it into the final scene, and no, it’s not a hat.

Prom Season Arrives

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This is one of my favorite times of the year to go out to dinner.  It’s the only way us old dudes can check out what’s hot in Prom Fashions.  Well it used to be the only way. Luckily for you…..You have me.  I was at Foggy Bottom for the fashion show last night, and took that little flip camera along so you could see what’s hot too.   Okay, if you’re a parent of a teen, you already know what’s hot, but don’t ruin it for everyone else and tell us what you had to spend to take one of those dream dresses home!

Foggy Bottom Fashion Show

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Late notice, you may miss it but at 6 Tonight we’re having a full blown Prom/Party Dress fashion show at Foggy Bottom.  This is the latest Focus Fashion On Location event, rescheduled from last month due to….dare I say it, SNOW!

I can NOT believe how many gowns there are here.  I’ve been missing out, then again, I haven’t needed a Prom Dress for awhile, but next year I will for my Daughter.  Pix to be posted later of her trying things on.

Tweet me in Hutchinson

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Hutchinson is about to lay claim to more than just the Kansas State Fair and @codyks.  The next BIG #140 Conference is headed to Kansas and I’m among the featured speakers….yeah, I know it cracks me up too. (Look at the schedule, wasn’t my title, “From TV to Twitter” catchy?)  Anyway to prepare for all this online excitement we did an old-fashioned tweetup this week at Wichita’s Rock Island Live.  (Best Hamburger Sliders…..EVER.)  The great thing about being a freelance-whatever-I-am, I can now bring the news to you online and have a beer while I’m recording it.  Hey I’m all about full disclosure.

My second order of business was to interview the man of the hour.  Jeff Pulver has put on these #140 conferences in New York, San Francisco, Tel Aviv…..yeah, so of course, Hutchinson had to be next on the list.  We’ll get to why Hutchinson in a later interview but I wanted to give you an idea of what will happen in a few weeks when we get together in Hutchinson.  This isn’t just about “Social Media” or “Facebook for your business” this is about our life on the web, and how our lives are changing…..whether you live in New York, Tel Aviv or perhaps even a SMALL town somewhere in between.    Who better than Jeff (and me) to explain it.  Here’s part of my interview with the man in purple.  (And yes, he is soft and lovable like the original purple dude -Barney!!)  If you’ve ever had kids, click on that last link…. makes me think of dirty diapers, projectile vomiting and the first time my daughters said, “I love you.”

Hails YES

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It’s raining out and where we live (29th & Maize area) in Northwest Wichita, the hail is sporadic, but COLD.  I took a picture because that’s just what I do…..right now it’s drenching, but every few minutes we’ll hear a bump in the night.

Prove Me Wrong, Again.

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So the budding musician in the family, 10-year old Tanza, decided she had to be in band.  (Not a bad thing but she already takes piano and guitar and I have to beg her to practice BOTH.)  Because she does have talent, she writes her own music and lyrics already…..we said okay.  Sure enough, she’s futzing around with the clarinet like he’s a new boyfriend, can’t put the thing down!  She watched the DVD on how to hold it last night, and today. voila….taught herself her first song.  I think it just means if she WANTS to do something, I’ll need to just shut up and LET HER.  Congrats Tanza, it’s not perfect and in parts it’s not really pretty but it’s certainly PROOF, I was wrong, again.  Love you baby girl.

Son of a BEACH

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So we made a quick trip to Los Angeles and there’s one thing I can’t get out of my head. Okay, there’s more than one, but this one really bugs me. We’re walking along Santa Monica Beach on a gorgeous night and people are everywhere. It really was sort of magical, except for the smell…and the trash.

I managed to get my picture perfect photos of the girls and the sunset and the pier, but I snapped this one too.

We ought to be ashamed.  I know I was.

Maybe it’s the Indian blood in me, (Cherokee and Potawatomi) but I couldn’t believe the same people who were out here enjoying the beach’s natural beauty were also careless enough to leave their crap on it on their way out.  Maybe a whole new generation needs to see my all time favorite commercial.  The one of the Indian shedding a single tear over the littering of his native land.  I probably need a spanking I should have picked it up but the smell was gagging me……..so while Santa Monica was lovely look at and delightful to phtograph, the smell left me hankering for my homeland.  Flat, hot, dry and smell free Kansas (Unless you’re in Southwest Kansas XXOO to my friends out there!)

Swimsuit Strategy

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I am a freakin’ genius.  Summer just officially started and I’ve finally figured out how to hit the pool in a bikini and rest assured no one is staring at my boobs that are too big, or my cellulite that is too obvious.  Here’s the great part, should you have those problems…..YOU can do it too.

It’s called distraction.  I hopped in the tub to do the shave thing, (Blonde hair glistens in the sun and though it reminds me of diamonds, I’m pretty sure it doesn’t turn anyone else on!) and noticed that I finally had something to offer a  horrified crowd BESIDES my 46-year old carcass…..take a look.

No I’m not looking for compliments here, though I have always heard my chicken legs were one of my best assets (I think Stephanie Bergmann was the first to tell me they were chicken legs!!)  look a little closer at my incredible COLOR.  I mean colors, and I’m not referring to the tan. That whomping bruise happened a few days ago, but just appeared TODAY.  The one day I have pool time.   I have been complaining about the pain of the damn thing for days, but every one looked at me like I was pathetic because it wasn’t very impressive, until now.  So how did I do this?   I slipped in the bathtub.      Really, I had one leg in and one leg out and BOOOM smashed the side of my leg into the tile edge…..I cried inside then whined to all my friends how I couldn’t even put my legs together (please refrain from commenting)….I mean at night I couldn’t lay on my side because it would press on my hemmorhage.

So today, as I hit the pool with my friend Jennifer Sebits (KSN fans would remember her as Reporter Jennifer Pruitt, now a stay-at-home mom) and her kids I’m gonna flash that bruise like a badge of honor, knowing fully well I have all of about 10 seconds to lay my fat fanny down before the gaze shifts to my other “areas”.    But I’m not worried, I can do a lot in 10 seconds :) and WAIT, I just found I have something else to offer if you’re into scabs….apparently I was shaving with an old razor.  Okay, I guess genius was stretching it.

Facebook Freak

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Hi I’m Anita, and I’m a facebook freak.  (This is where you say, “Hi Anita”…..at least I’ve heard that’s how it’s done.)  Anyway….if you visited me over there you might have noticed these days I’m often at my 5,000 friend limit.  (FINALLY!!)  I’d like to say “I’m NOT proud of it, it just HAPPENED,” but, I’m PROUD of it.  I LOVE that I have 5,000 friends or at least NAMES that when it comes down to parting with some of them, well….I just can’t do it.  I mean a lot of these people are former KSN fans, twitter friends, and while some of us have never met or even really corresponded, we’ve seen each others names now for a year or two, so it feels like I know even THOSE people.  The word “Friend” sort of needs a new definition.

So, I have a waiting list of people who want to be  ”friends”  and some of them I really already KNOW.  They are my friends…..I just don’t have room for them on facebook.  Here’s where it gets tricky.  Because of the dumb rule that one can only have 5,000 friends, I am having to drop people so I can add new ones.  One strategy that works well is to talk about me.  Two dudes got really pissed when I did that the other day and they dropped me, the comment was….”Man all you ever write about is YOU.”   (My response….”SEE YA” )  I got to add two more people who actually wanted to read what I had to say about myself, and not to be vain, but isn’t that what a personal facebook page is about??  The person I mean.  Trust me, whenever I look at YOUR facebook page, I expect to read about YOU!!

So anway, back to the list.  I’m trying like hell-o to get a couple of my OLLLLLDDDD friends on and I let people drop me, then add a few new ones every day, but it’s not happening fast enough.  Enter the Anita Cochran/ Public Figure facebook page.  I made up this new page where ANYONE can “Like” it and thus be a “Liker”, I guess that’s almost as good as  a friend.  This though allows all LIKERS to join in which I’m all for.  Now all I have to do is figure out how to make both pages ALL ABOUT ME, and man I won’t have any friends, any likers, and I’ll have a heck of a lot more free time.   Then again if I could figure out how to hack into my own Facebook Public Figure page I could change Like to Lick.  I just want to see if anyone would admit they want to LICK me :)   See I am a FREAK.