Adding to my collection some of my favorites to make and to wear.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
A favorite of mine!
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Starting to get spring designs going. I want to add more earrings and rings to my inventory. Here are a few I am selling on my two sites.
I am posting 2 great sites to get yourself started reaching out to buyers with your handcrafted goods. A great way to sell without all the hassles and investment of time and dollars to get started. I've been on etsy for about 6 months now and just found artfire from another artisan advertising the site on her blog.
I am super intersted in linking to like minded artists and sharing the promoting of each others blog sites to reach as many interested people as possible. Just getting started and open to suggestion.
Upcoming Shows - Where I'll be selling my goodies....
Kent - Art In The Park
September 11th and 12th
www.kentparksandrec.com ****************************
ODDMALL- emporium of the weird
Sat. November 6th
Clarion Hotel - 240 Hines Hill Dr. Hudson, OH
free to get in- come one and come all...
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Heartfelt Holiday
Sat. - Sun. November 6th -7th
Brecksville Rec Center Rte 21 Brecksville Rd.
I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this...... When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting. After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland." "Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy." But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay. The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place. So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met. It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around.... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills....and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts. But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned." And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away... because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss. But... if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things ... about Holland.