Verity's Blog

2000 CD's...

Oh God! This is a terrifying picture!!!! What am I going to do? How will I post them all? Where will all the money come from? Who thought it was a good idea to sell 2000 and then post them?

 

Holy moly!!!!

 

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!

 

On Tv...

The response from my Carte Blanche interview has been pretty amazing and overwhelming! I was really nervous when I sat down with my family on Sunday night to watch it, but have to say I was blown away with how well it was put together. My phone started going nuts about 2 minutes into it and it was awesome to feel how excited people were for me! In many ways the piece was a celebration for everyone who has already bought my album, as it must have felt great to see where their faith and trust has taken me.

Needless to say my website has almost crashed twice from the traffic, sales are going well and my inbox has been flooded with emails of all sorts - from congrats, to wanting advice to opportunities for gigs. I feel very fortunate that the gamble I took in starting this project is paying off so amazingly. I have an incredible record label behind me now, a great web team, incredible family and friends, a super supportive boyfriend and 2000 people who are about to receive their CD's that they helped me record!

All in all as I near the end of the Lucky Packet Project I have to say that I am one very very lucky girl! Here's to the next part of the adventure...

TV or not TV?

A quick shout out to say that it looks like CARTE BLANCHE will be airing the 10 minute piece about my album project this SUNDAY 13th JULY @ 7pm!

I am keeping my fingers crossed that it actually happens as I discovered a few weeks ago that world news sometimes prevails and the line up changes last minute. But, if you are near a telly with MNET this Sunday, please keep an eye out, and if you find that I have been replaced by stories about crop circles, shoe fetishes and world peace, know that sometime soon the story of one girl's mission to sell an album that didn't exist will be shown. I promise!

Happy weekend & watching!

Artwork is finally done!

 I  have just come back from posting the finished artwork disc off to Joburg! It was quite a moment to hand the CD over the counter and know that it is done and in a few weeks thousands of albums are going to be stacked into boxes and be ready to posted and sent to the stores! 

The process of finishing the artwork has been an journey in itself, but I have loved every moment. Taking me to the finishing line where three amazing designers - Sharon Boonzaaier, Heather Brown & Charmaine Taylor - and yesterday we yelled with glee when we held the print ready work in our hands! I have loved watching each page come to life with pictures and lyrics and names of the amazing 2000 people who bought this CD long before it even existed.

I am really excited to get it out there for people to listen to and look through the booklet and celebrate what they have helped me to achieve. Only a few more steps on what has felt like a very long stretch!

 A few weeks ago I received an email from an Amercian speaker who was going to be visiting SA with a young choir from The States. As life would have it I didn't find a moment to meet him until his last night in Cape Town, and so I arrived at a dinner quite unlike anything I have experienced before. Greg Forbes Siegman is an unusual man with an uncommon love of people. I didn't know anything about him other than he is a speaker and has a book called The First Thirty and that we was very insistent that the dinner included everyone he had met on his trip. The venue he chose was The Spur in the Waterfront and when I got there he proceded to introduce to an incredible array of  people - from the tour director, to the waiter from his hotel, to an usher from Ster Kinekor to a friend of a friend to a young american woman he had met shopping with her family. He definitely doesn't have the boundaries so many of us have of who we can connect with. It was an inspiring evening and opened my eyes to how many people I miss out on meeting because of self-imposed boundaries.

 Greg and I swapped his book for my CD and the next day I got to read his incredible story and discovered that the meal I experienced with him was in fact a continuation  of years of 'brunches' he has run every sunday with people from all walks in life back in The States. An incredible example of how one person can cross divides to make a difference in many lives & well worth reading.