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Monthly Archives: January 2012

ACRE is ON!!

Not much time to blog right now.  The American Craft Retailers Expo (ACRE) started this morning and runs through Monday afternoon.  This is my first wholesale show and the launching pad for my wholesale business.  Here’s a quick shot of my booth. Wish me luck.  I need all the positive energy and happy thoughts y’all can generate.

Winter Bloom

The gorgeous African Irisis are blooming in my front yard right now.  These spiky green grass-like clumps have been none too impressive since they were planted last July when we updated our landscaping.  Apparently, winter is the big payoff for these guys.  From a distance, they just look like white flowers, but closer inspection reveals…

So impressed by the USPS!

I had postcards printed to promote my jewelry business.  I’m mailing some out to potential galleries in advance of the American Craft Retailers Expo (ACRE) where I’m exhibiting next weekend.  I addressed a couple of them to myself, just to see how fast they would arrive and in what condition they would arrive.  I dropped…

Personal recipe for happiness

I’m now in my second week of this newest phase of my life.  At the end of the year I made a major change by re-arranging my priorities to better fit my personal recipe for happiness. I had been in my job as Director of Marketing for the National Mango Board (NMB) for five years.…