We had an eventful return trip home from our last three shows. When we stopped for gas in Corning I discovered the van had a flat rear left tire...just watched it go down while the gas was pumping in. So....ended up at the tire shop to replace not one but all four tires.
In the meanwhile, Jerry drives out the gas station drive way. Snap, bang and pop...something broke underneath the front end of the motor home. The front "sway bar" bushings gave way on the steering "something rather" *%^#
I know that we were extremely lucky that all this happened when we were NOT on the freeway driving.....but. The repairs costs more than we made at the last three shows. Funny how that happens.
A thank you to all of our friends and "client family". We enjoyed visiting, seeing and working with each of you at the last three shows: Art Fiesta, Sacramento; Art in the Park, Burlingame; and Summer Fine Arts Festival, Danville.
Wow, moving from around 75 degrees, with a brisk bay area breeze, back up the our home at a warm 102 degrees last week. Was a shock on the body! Then an unusual fast moving low front dumps over a half inch of rain and temps back down in the low 70's on Tues. and Wed. And today, working its way back up into the 90's. With a warming trend to 102-105 for the July 4th weekend and into next week. Summer has finally arrived! Knew it would happen this way....bang just in time for the holiday weekend.
Speaking of July 4 --we will be up in Chester, for their 4th of July Art and Craft show Monday. At least we will see the beautifull Lassen area and visit Lake Almanor on our trip. Will enjoy seeing our friends at the show as we only get up that way once a year now. This is a fast moving show, held in the community park along side the Feather River in the middle of town. We expect it to be warm up there too, usually in the mid 90's when we hit low 100s. So, figure to see people drift in early around 9am to view the what we have this year. Take a short break near 11am to see the local parade down Main St., then back down the steps to our booth in the park. Around 3pm....the show closes and we pack up and head for home. A fast one day event hosted by the local Lyons Club.
I went to use my camera a couple so days ago. And found that the "handy" flip out viewer had flipped one time too many and broke. When I checked around on repairs, found it was cheaper just to purchase a new one. I did some research on the internet on what I needed. Off to Costco, and Best Buy to see them in person and finally purchased a Cannon PowerShot SX130. Seems to have all the bells and whistles that I need, mainly the Macro operation that I use all the time for close ups. Taking pictures of our jewelry has been a challenge for years.
With rain that we had this week, all of the weeds around our place just grew up overnight again. They always manage to pop up faster than we can keep up with them. I took time out earlier today to spray as many as I could see in the hot bright sunshine.
On the right is part of the gravel drive back towards our place.
Now I best get back to work. Now that I have a new camera I need to design a few pieces for new custom work.
Oh, almost forgot!! I have started on redesigning our website: http://www.wearablemetalartbydesign.com/ . After much thought I have decided to move it in a new direction. More towards inviting custom work from you our friends, and new friends soon to be. Iam putting together several pages on custom orders, only have a couple done so far. Will add photos of both sold and un-sold work to help some of you with design ideas. I also want to add photos of some of our stone collection. I say some, as I am a stone addict and have way too many in the safe to actually display a photo of each.
With this change, I am also going to add more items to our Etsy Store: http://www.wearablemetalartjfh.etsy.com/ .
It is our hope to be able to cut back on the number of shows that we do each month in a few years, less if it can work out. And spend more time designing and doing custom work .
Bye for now, stay cool and enjoy the summer weather
