Happy Birthday to You . . .

Happy Birthday to You . . .

What a special birthday for Karen yesterday — her son Scott and his family came from Georgia to surprise her, then her son Michael and his family joined in and they all surprised her daughter Ashley at work. This is probably the first picture I have seen of...

It Has Been Five Years . . .

Five years.  The world has changed a lot since last time I wrote a blog post. It was before the pandemic . . . I was talking with someone recently about why I stopped writing.  There was a glitch in the program that I used to post them — it wouldn’t let me...

For Your Viewing Pleasure . . .

Our store sent me a link to a new Jennifer McGuire video on Distress Oxide Sprays — said it’s very well done (no surprise — everything Jennifer does is very well done), and has turned some customers on to Distress Oxide Sprays who had never...
An Audience With Royalty . . .

An Audience With Royalty . . .

While I was in Sevierville, Tennessee a couple of weeks ago, I got to spend a few minutes with my dear friends Picasso Gaglione, Darlene Domel, and Fred the Wonder Bear — they came to visit from their retirement villa in Knoxville.  How they got from San...
A Pleasant Stop Along the Road . . .

A Pleasant Stop Along the Road . . .

This started two weeks ago while we were setting up for a show in York, Pennsylvania – Pat Huntoon from Technique Junkies was across the aisle from me.  I heard her mention that she was doing a show in Sevierville, Tennessee the following weekend and a...