10/25/07
Private Trunk Show
We were invited to do a private trunk show
this week and have spent most of the month preparing stock.
We sold some, but not a lot, however it force us to get our
things organized.
We ordered gift bags and tissue, made gift
tags, made hang tags, cut gift wrap and set up the best
displays we could. We are still on the road, so we
don't have our usual lighting and displays. We also
changed out our credit card account to ProPay. That
will be more efficient for travelers.
One surprise is that we had a piece stolen.
I can't imagine that there would be a theft at a private
showing, but it was there. Two of us were watching the
jewelry and we both realized the ring was gone at the same
time. It took us a couple of minutes to figure out
which person it was. She was at the table with no name
tag, but later we saw her with her name tag on. I
didn't say anything to the host business.
Also, this month, we have moved our website
to another host after myriad problems with our previous
hosting. We also bought
www.wireknotters.com
for the nautical wire jewelry that Don is designing.
He is retiring Nov. 2 and will be working with the jewelry
full time, so we are starting another chapter of our lives
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10/25/07
Wildacres
Another piece we did was the Flourishes
Bracelet. I had designed it (as usual) using just wire and
no beads. We had a nice assortment of beads on those in
class, but unfortunately, this is the only one I managed to get
in focus in the photos. It uses crystals. We had one
using gold beads, another using silver beads and another using
butterfly beads.
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10/20/07
Wildacres
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have had a very hectic month and I have so many more memories of
Wildacres to post. Everyone did such beautiful work and
worked so hard.
Just to give an idea of how creative they were,
here are the results of the basket class.
As you can see, They used beads to a great
advantage. I am not a beader and don't have much
imagination when it comes to beads, so this was a wonderful
revelation to me.
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10/12/07
Wildacres
There is just no way I can describe how much
fun I had a Wildacres and how wonderful the people in the class
were. They were enthusiastic, imaginative, funny and
intrepid. They would literally try anything.
At some points, we had 5 projects going at once
and kind of jumped back and forth from one to the other.
This is because I thought we had 6 days for class and we had 4
1/2. We actually worked most nights until bedtime so we
got 9 projects finished.
I will write more about this in future posts
because there is just too much to tell at once.
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Busy Creative Hands at Wildacres
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