My HGTV - "That's Clever" Experience - 2½ Years Later

It began with an email on a group forum inviting artists to send in photos of "crafts" to be considered for the show because they were going to be in the Houston area to shoot the guest artists and the projects they chose.

I was fortunate enough to be chosen and they came to my home to shoot the segment in April of 2007, two and a half years ago. I was told, after the shooting (after), that it wouldn't air until October of 2008 because they shoot that far in advance and since my project is a Halloween type project it would air in October. Talk about disappointment!!

When I first considered being on the show, I was very hesitant because I REALLY didn't want to be on TV but I knew the exposure could be worth it. At the time, Poly Clay Play was barely a year old. Even though they won't let you say the name of your business, I was able to have "Poly Clay Play" magnets in the background. (Turns out they didn't show up very well. LOL)

Also, when I decided to submit my project, the HGTV website posted the instructions to each and every artist's project so I figured that would be great and worth getting over being shy and not wanting to look silly on TV! They still post the projects but in a more obscure, harder to find area.

Last year (2008), they stopped airing the show and no one would answer my emails. At that point I thought I would never get to see how they spliced 4 hours shooting time into my 10 minutes of fame. They started the show again in January of 2009 so I thought, "hmmm will this be the year?"! October came and went.

Fortunately, I knew the episode number. They had emailed that shortly after coming to my home so, my husband checked the HGTV website regularly to see if it showed up in their listing. Finally it was listed in January 2009 and it was supposed to show on October 22. Well, that was the original listing. I later found out it would air October 27, 2009 - 2½ years after it was shot. I believed it would actually shown on that date because my cable listing actually had the listing description and it said "a woman in Spring Texas shows...". That's me, a woman from Spring Texas!

LOL, I thought wrong! After sending emails to family and friends, bugging them one more time and looking like a wanna be TV star... NOT... they changed the date again. Oh, and this time they changed the time too. It did show on TV on October 30, 2009 at 7:00 in the morning. I checked the date again several times, just in case! LOL

I really enjoyed seeing how they edited it down and am happy with the way they did it.

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