You can't live on the East Coast of NC and not look forward to the summer, but you can if you are a Glassblower!! Especially one that has a retail shop in a tourist town!! Glassblowers generally shut down during the summer months and do maintainance on the equipment but when the tourist don't come till the middle of June through Sept. you have to do what you have to do. I have an observation area in my store where you can watch (in the comfort of A/C) the activities of the studio(not in the comfort of A/C!!!)so people...
Well, it only took me 5 months but I was finally on the front page last night. Granted it was at 2:00 am but at least the folks on the West Coast got to see my red roses!!
It was indeed a great treasury and I am so thankful that I was included. I didn't see any immediate sales from it but who knows, its a start.
You know the making of glass items is hard enough, but trying to get people to buy them is even harder. There is so much that I want to...
As I have posted before my husband has a site on Etsy as well, (www.anangryamerican.etsy.com) and he has not had a lot of luck with it. He has gotten more views than most of my stuff but no sales. :-( Until last week. He was contacted by some guy in Nigeria that wanted 15 of his GWMA shirts. he wanted them quickly and was willing to pay for express shipping ($250.00 with the USPS) beacause he was opening a new store After many convos back and forth, my husband finally told him they were ready to ship but he had...
I have two children, Jennifer (31) and Alex(27) and today my daughter had her first child. Everyone had been asking me how did I feel about becoming a Grandmother, and I really didn't have any feelings about it. I don't think I do, still, I do have feelings about my daughter having a baby. When I asked her if she wanted me to be there, she said "no". Which is the same thing I would of said to my mother. Well, as I sat there and waited to hear from them, knowing she was in...
Was up wayyyyy to late last night putting together my husbands new Etsy Page. www.AnAngryAmerican.etsy.com Please do go take a look at it and tell me what you think. He is quite the character and always comes up with these crazy sayings. I love most of them, some of them can't be printed.....:-) He keeps telling me he is the idea man, and boy does he have some crazy ones sometimes. Thanks for looking and I would love some feedback, good and bad.
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