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I had good inten­tions for this five-​day week­end, I truly did. Like so many of my good inten­tions, they didn’t get com­pletely ful­filled. I was going to: catch up on the mas­sive grad­ing back­log. Well, I at least sorted out the papers and graded a lit­tle bit. A very lit­tle bit. get a bunch of items listed […]

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I was try­ing to pho­to­graph some of my chain­maille bracelets tonight to get them listed at 1000 Mar­kets and Art­fire. Pho­tog­ra­phy isn’t my favorite part of the process, but tonight was par­tic­u­larly aggra­vat­ing. One prob­lem I’ve had in the past is get­ting a clearly focused pic­ture because I run into depth of field issues. In automatic […]

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Show, Day 1

It was slow. What can I say? Pretty much we were all in agree­ment — even Audrey, when she came and browsed late in the after­noon, said it had been slow. Of course, we have had shows with slow Sat­ur­days before, and they have usu­ally been fol­lowed by good Sun­days, so we shall remain opti­mistic. In […]

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No, not THAT kind of quickie ::frown::. I spent all evening doing all the show prep stuff that I know not to put off until the last minute but do so any­way. I always end up clean­ing the last batch of beads on the last night, and then they have to be sorted, culled, placed […]

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Besides Gary, there’s one other crit­i­cal per­son asso­ci­ated with my busi­ness — my occa­sional busi­ness part­ner Andrea, of Four Tails Lam­p­work. Although we have sep­a­rate online busi­nesses, we team up to do shows, and that works out VERY well for us. One rea­son is that our styles of work are com­pli­men­tary but not copy-​cat; she works […]

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