November 17, 2011

Hello all! My show season is officially over for the year and I'm planning to go light next year so I can focus on creating enough inventory - many new ideas - to cover one or two really good shows... Well, that's my plan anyway...

Life in general has been pretty busy.  I've been working a LOT this year as a graphic designer, which was my "day job" before I took up lampworking full-time.  Now it is still not quite my "day job" as I am doing it only on a freelance basis, which still enables me to have a flexible schedule and do all the things I need to do.

Last month, my middle child, Chelsea, got married to her high school sweetheart, Matt.  The wedding was beautiful and everything went well, but now that it's over, I can BREATHE.

Breathing leads to other cool things like restocking my etsy store and updating my website, so here I am...  :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hugs!!! ~Debby

 

June 2, 2011

Hello all!  I am currently gearing up for what I hope will be my Best Show Ever.  At least I am optimistic, right?  The show I am going to is the Stone Arch Festival of the Arts in Minneapolis, MN., over Fathers Day weekend.  Why Minnesota, you ask?  Well, I wanted to get OUT of Arkansas to try new territory and I also wanted to go some place where I have relatives so I can make the trip a vacation as well.  That pretty much leaves Florida and Minnesota.  Since it's too hot to do shows in Florida over the summer, that left just one option.

I had applied to two shows in the Twin Cities and surprisingly was accepted into BOTH of them.  After much consideration, I decided to just do the one show as the other show conflicted with a really tight schedule I have in August.  I will be attending the ISGB (International Society of Glass Beadmakers) annual conference, called "The Gathering" with several glass buddies from Arkansas the end of July/first of August.  The conference is in Louisville, KY this year and I could not pass up the chance to go, since I estimate that to be an easy day's drive.

After the Gathering, I have another event and just couldn't fit in another big show in between.  It was a hard decision to make to click the "decline" on the accept or decline option on the Zapp website, but I am relieved I made that decision.  I think it would have been just too much to do that show.

Meanwhile, the Stone Arch show is coming up fast and I have a lot to do to prepare.  I've been making a lot of jewelry, some of which I am showing here on my site.  For those of you coming from the show's website to check out my work beforehand, you'll get a tasty little glimpse.  At least I hope you'll find it tasty!

Check these out...

      

 

 

April 13, 2011

My apologies for having dropped off the radar.  I confess I have been spreading myself way too thin and have spent more time away from this site.  A big part of the problem was the fact that since buying a new computer last year, I have been able to update this site due to the fact that the program I use to maintain this site is incompatible with my OS.  Well, that is, until a friend recently told me how I can "trick" the program into thinking I had the older OS on my computer.  WTH?  I had no idea that could be done and I STILL have no idea how that's done, but I don't care, as long as it works... and it seems to be...

I did try to recreate the site using Dreamweaver but I found I couldn't even build the first page.  I think that program should be renamed "Nightmareweaver", because that's what it was.  FrontPage is quirky, but heck, at least I know how to use it.  So, I'm back to my old standby.

Anyway, I'll be cleaning out and up the site in the coming weeks, so hang onto your hat!  Maybe spiders will stop coming here to make this puppy home.  Time to clean off the cobwebs.

~Debby