This past weekend I performed at the Hebig / Rintoul wedding at Club Shuswap in Salarm Arm, B.C. Below is a gallery of some of the photo’s taken by M.A.D. Photography – Melissa Ann Davies.

“Thank you again for the great performance. You truly amazed all the guests at our daughter’s wedding. Everyone was talking about the magic show all evening and into the next day. The guests particularly liked the mingling and one on one magic.””
Joanne Hebig

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The other night I stopped by WalMart to pick up to some new playing cards and I was shocked when I found the playing card isle and among all the regular expected cards they also had some theory11 Guardian cards! The cards were the same price as the rest of the cards for something like $4.99. The great part though is that you don’t have to pay any shipping like you would ordering from their website, and it’s in Canadian currency instead of American.. not a bad find.

The cards themselves I’m very impressed with. Although the back designs really look a lot better on the computer screen than they do printed on the cards, they still very remarkable. The card stock itself is quite a bit thicker than regular bicycle card. The thicker card stock gives them a really nice feel in your hands and also helps with some card moves.

I don’t like the fact that audiences aren’t familiar with Guardian cards, so I doubt I’d ever use them in performance, but to play around with them is fun. Next time you’re at WalMart pick up a deck and check them out!

Here’s a neat little box that you can make with playing cards. Maybe you can make one of these up to put your fathers day present in.

Couple pictures from today’s performance at the Rutland May Days Festival. The weather was perfect for outdoors entertainment today, and the show was a blast.

This kid was sooo adorable! What a great moment on stage.

Performing outside is fun because I don’t have to worry about spilling!

Family Fun with Rutland May Days

This 50th anniversary will last for four days.

Rutland May Days are scheduled to take place May 15 to May 18 in Centennial Park.

This year’s event features new attractions such as bull riding championships, all-star wrestling, karaoke, youth and teen dances and an amusement park.

On Friday, May 15, everyone will get a chance to dance with a youth dance for those under 14 starting at 4 p.m., ending at 7 p.m. and a dance for those ages 15 to 18 from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m.

The parade starts at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 16.

Breakfast every morning at 8 a.m. by the Dry Grad Class.

Daily admission to Centennial Park is $2.

[via Castanet ]

I will be performing on Saturday May 16th at 4:00 PM at the Rutland Park Stage in the field beside the Rutland Centennial Hall. Hope to see you there!

I read an interesting quote the other day; I think @tferris posted it on Twitter. It was something like “If you feel like you’ve got everything under control… you aren’t moving fast enough”. An interesting idea.. and sometimes it sure does feel that way!

I’m kind of a control freak, which is probably my best quality but not all of the time! This month I have a huge list of goals that I want to complete, but it sure can be challenging when you’ve got so many shows to do.

I love it though. I love performing. Over the past couple weeks I’ve been invited to perform for a fundraiser gala evening, a grand opening, a school fun fair, a BBQ event, an afterschool care center, and a birthday party. I love being able to perform in different venues for different types of people, it keeps things interesting. I’m really looking forward to the rest of the shows I have booked this month as well. More birthday’s, more school events, a large children’s show, and a huge family event and a few others—Woohoo!

Between all those shows I’m excited about all the projects I’m working on too. For those of you who receive my Magical Moments eNewsletter you’ll know that I just launched a brand new website for brides who are looking for Kelowna Wedding entertainment. I love the tagline of “Write the story of your wedding with magic.” While building the site I had my older sister and her friends critique my site and all the girls were disappointed that they already had their weddings because they thought that having a magician was such a great idea! Many people immediately just think of only a DJ for their wedding, but there are so many benefits of adding a magician to your wedding to entertain your guests. By far my favourite show option, and my most popular option, is Mingling Magic. I have a few wedding shows coming up this summer and I know I’ll have a blast. Everybody at weddings is always in such a great mood.

Also I’ve just ordered some new banner stands for my show. I got some printed up last year, but they need to be updated. I’ll post some pictures of them once I receive them.

I hope you’re all enjoying the nice weather we’re FINALLY getting here in the Okanagan. Until next time, take care.

Here’s an amazing illusion from Copperfields “Tornado of Fire” special. I’ve seen the special, I thought, but I had never seen this trick before.

Sorry for the lack of updates. I’ve been busy working on a new wedding website that will be launched hopefully sometime next week– but in the next few weeks for sure. Keep a look at this space and I’ll let you know once it’s live!

This year I was invited to perform at the 2009 Urban Adventure Challenge After Party. I had a blast performing for all the teams and volunteers who took part in the event. Everyone was really excited at the event, and people were ready to just sit back, relax, and take in some magic.

For those who are on facebook- you can find these same pictures on my photoalbum.

Last week I did an interview with Catherine Mamo from ilovekelowna.com. She wrote up a great article on me that was published today on their homepage. You can read the full article on their website.

I didn’t expect the article to be a long as it was, but our chat last week did last for over a half hour so she certainly had lots to mention. Catherine met me a few weeks ago when I performing at some local libraries. She really enjoyed the show and thought it would make for a great article! Who am I to disagree?

Today I came across one of those lists that are usually passed on by email forwards. Now normally I hate these lists, but this one is actually kind of funny. If you’ve seen this before- I’m sorry. If you love it, and you have a facebook, you can join the group for it.

1. Your best pickup line is “Pick a card.”

2. You use the word “effect” rather than “trick”.

3. You pay $50 for a $1 coin.

4. A “shell” is not something found on a beach.

5. All your friends call you when magic is on TV.

6. You never play card games with your cards.

7. While watching a movie or TV, you have cards in your hands.

8. You pose for a photo with one eyebrow raised!

9. You pay $60.00 for a book and get, possibly, one or two useful things out of it and you’re happy.

10. Your Christmas/Birthday wish list looks like a magic catalogue.

11. If you’ve ever been asked the question “can you make my wife disappear”?

12. You’re back-ordered for rabbits and doves at the pet store.

13. 75% of your patter consists of lame one-liners.

14. You drive 300 miles round trip to visit a teeney-tiny store.

15. You have over 100 responses to the phrase “How did you do that?”

16. There’s a pack of cards in sight as you read these words.

17. You’re holding a fan of cards in every photo that you’re in.

18. You actually want to go to a lecture.

19. You record every magic special on TV.

20. You have a tie with playing cards on it.

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