I Don’t Do It Alone, Part I

Friday’s post might have sounded like I try to do every­thing with Art of the Fire­bird all by myself. Well, I don’t — there are two peo­ple on whom I rely!

My hus­band, Gary, tends to stay behind the scenes most of the time, but he’s vital to my suc­cess. Any time there’s a prob­lem that needs solv­ing, he either comes up with the best solu­tion him­self or helps me eval­u­ate pos­si­ble solu­tions. He’s my chief engi­neer and fab­ri­ca­tor — if I need some­thing built, whether it be stu­dio fur­nish­ings or dis­play items, he’s design­ing and con­struct­ing it. He’s also our “roadie,” if you will, for shows, mak­ing our setup and take­down run smoothly and quickly, as well as run­ning errands and usu­ally bring­ing us lunch dur­ing the show (can’t have us sell­ing on empty stom­achs, after all). He will even get behind the table and schmooze with cus­tomers if nec­es­sary, though it’s not his favorite thing to do, and he’s ALWAYS urg­ing me to hand out busi­ness cards every­where we go.

Could I do it with­out him? I don’t want to ever have to find out! Gary is my biggest fan and sup­porter and yep, we’ve still got it !