Deanna Chase

One Lampworker's Daily Experiences.

• — Tucson…Here we come!

  Yep, that’s right.  I am finally getting Greg out of the house and we are headed off to Best Bead in Tucson, AZ.  We have  booth 31 in Tent A.  If you are coming down to the shows be sure to stop by and say hi. The show runs from Feb 3rd through the 7th.  [...]

• — Harry Potter?

  I missed the release of the newest Harry Potter DVD. In fact I walked right by it in Walmart last week and my hubby said, “Hey, don’t you want that?”  And what did I say? Nothing.  I just kept walking.  At the time I just kept  thinking, huh? Which one is it? So when hubby [...]

• — It never fails…

  When I take a week off, all sales stop.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m not whining or even complaining.  I’m just stating things as they are.  Business actually held strong the week through Christmas and right up to New years.  We were even on vacation from Christmas to New Years.  But all our new auctions [...]

• — Happy New Year!

  This is what’s going on in my world today: It’s cold here in Louisiana–shush all you people in the snow. I moved here for warm temps, not forty-degree freezing arctic B.S. Okay, maybe not freezing, but when one is used to seventy degree weather, forty is just not okay.  Even my dog is cold.  I [...]

• — Lampworking in these tough economic times

  Over the last few months I have read more and more posts by my lampworking collegues, informing us they are closing shop, taking a hiatus, or *gasp* headed out to find the JOB. It makes me sad. Yep, times are tough. It isn’t like it was two or three years ago when all you had [...]