Happy New Year everyone! It's now the middle of January, thus far we have had a very mild winter her in the "Banana Belt" of Niagara. Hopefully we will not have too much snow.
January is the month where we take a good look back at our business year and make plans for the year to come. Since most of the Craft &Art Shows we partake in are run by volunteers we realize that it takes time to get the planning done.
Last year our year began with a winter of Al and Birgie custom making orders for the Niagara Parks Commission, items which found homes in the Butterfly Conservatory Gift Shop and Table Rock in Niagara Falls. What an honour that is! We are so grateful. Dreams do come true.Thank you to everyone who purchases our items.
At the end of March 2012 our first craft show began in Huttonville for the Lions Club. This show takes place in a public school in the small town of Huttonville just north of Streetsville off of Mississauga Road on Embellton Side Road, West of Brampton, East of Milton and South of Caledon and Georgetown. Every room, gym and halls are wall to wall crafters and artisans as well 1 gym and rooms with Antique dealers .There is a lunchroom as well as home cooking and baking available.It's a wonderful show , very well attended. Always a joy for us to show and sell our wares here. We thank everyone for making our visits here some of the best over the last nine years.
This year we will be in Huttonville March 23 and 24th and November 23 and 24th. We are busily creating new product for this show as we speak.
In April 2012 Birgie's Artwerkz and Pressed Flower Work found homes in The Laura Secord Homestead in Queenston, Niagara Glen and The Floral Show House in Niagara via group submissions through the Parkway Artist Guild for the Niagara Parks Commission. It was so nice to see many of my pieces sell, inspiring me to get cracking and create new pieces of art for the upcoming year.
As I write I am in the process of working on new art Birgie Artwerkz and well as new pressed flower works. I encourage anyone who has any interest in art to come to a PAG meeting which is held at the Niagara School of Horticulture on the Niagara Parkway. Demonstrations and Workshops are offered by many professional artists. Every meeting is a learning and an inspiring experience for me personally. Thank you PAG volunteers and the Niagara Parks for giving us artists so many opportunities to market our wares.
