The winter of 2016 will go down in GMA history as the season of the stretch. After more than two decades of selling my work directly to my retail clients (custom and otherwise), I stretched myself during the last year to: put together a wholesale collection around the...
Dressing up my showroom for a holiday show with Christmas tunes and twinkly lights is how I know. It's how I know the holiday season has arrived. ...
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]My recent trip to Asheville, NC, was filled with color. Funky bricks. Illuminated tea. Neon wigs. You will find all kinds of rich color in AVL. What a cool town. Take a look at these shots from my camera roll. Hover over titled images for more...
As a child I had one of those Golden storybooks (anybody remember those?) with the story of the Princess and the Pea. I love that story! I remember the imagery of that storybook...
Hanging from the leather strap around my anvil stump is a simple planishing hammer. It's one of many, many hammers in my studio. But, this one is in my top five. It would be difficult for me to pick a single favorite hammer, but I do...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] [caption id="attachment_6006" align="alignright" width="300"] The Bianchi Family - my client Bess is the infant in her grandmother's arms.[/caption] Decades ago, an infant American girl received an 18-karat gold bracelet from her grandmother, from Argentina. As she grew, she became aware of the bracelet, held by her mother...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A fresh, white blanket of snow didn’t matter on the morning of one of my meetings with my client, Diana. Not a native Southerner, she didn’t assume that our meeting would be rescheduled when we awoke to the wintry conditions outside like I did. I made my way...
OK. I admit it. It was a stressful week. There's no point in going into the details. But it all made me wonder...