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It's been way too long since our last post! Last month flew by, but I guess that's how it goes when you are always on the go. We just finished our only show of the summer, the Berea Craft Festival. We have quite a few things to work on, but our biggest focus right now is preparations for The American Fine Craft Show in Washington, D.C. we'll be exhibiting at in late October. The booth needs to be freshened up and our lighting has seen better days! In order to get things ready and get our booth fees paid by...

I can't believe how quickly time passes! I guess that's a sign of being busy.....and that's a very good thing. We have been moving almost at the pace of a sloth, however, getting our classes going.  We are happy though, to say that for the past two months or so we've picked up steam. This past weekend was a busy one with a trip to Harrodsburg for a Ladies' Night Out class and then we had one in Georgetown on Sunday.  We do not currently have any classes scheduled, but we will be scheduling a Polymer Clay Cane and Jewelry...

It's been over a month since we last posted! We can't let that happen again as there's so much to catch you up on. We are in our trifecta month (so appropriately named since our state's most anticipated event happens in the same month....the Kentucky Derby), three shows in back to back weekends. We just got home from the Spring Tennessee Craft Fair/Nashville. If you've never attended or exhibited there, you should. It's a wonderfully operated show and the artists who exhibit there are top notch. This coming weekend (May 13-14) we are westward bound again....this time to Paducah, Kentucky...

We just completed our second show of the year, Indiana Artisan Marketplace. We love doing that show as it is such as easy show to do. The load in and out is super simple and they do their best to be helpful. It was only our second year, but we have already made lots of new friends there. So you're probably wondering what the title "Fish Eyes" has to do with this post, right??? Well, we're very excited to announce we are collaborating with Ken Roberts of Ken's Fish Market with our 3 year beads. His beautiful market of metal...

We are just days shy of our next show, Indiana Artisan Marketplace in Indianapolis, Indiana. It's been four and a half weeks since Kentucky Crafted: The Market.  Indiana Artisan seemed so far away then, so how is it almost here?  For this upcoming show James has finished his redesign of our tables. I must say I consider myself pretty lucky to have a business partner who has a Master's in Architecture. Pretty much our entire booth has been created by him.  Booth lighting, our canvas panels with our jewelry images and name signs, our pendant necklace display, jewelry crate displays,...