I've been a full time artist since 1988... so, I've gone through a few names... the first name that got registered was "Black Hole Glass"... Not sure what year that was first registered, but it lasted until I left Saskatchewan in 2001... why Black Hole... actually my husband came up with that name, he claimed that my studio was a big black hole in the community that sucked in all his tools... there was a lot of glass sucked in too... but you've already seen pictures of that!
In 2000 I decided that making glass wasn't enough I wanted to sell it too! So I bought an old building on the beach at a local inland salt water lake (where we already had a cabin) Once we got rid of the pink and green ice cream parlor paint... I opened a seasonal gallery which was suppose to be called the Beach Hut Gallery... however any time the business showed up in print or reviews it somehow got changed to Beach Nut...
Spending summers at the beach was a wonderful way to spend 5 summers ... but 18 months after I opened the store we moved 2500 miles East... I actually commuted back to the Beach for 3 years... I would go west in June and my husband would drive out and pick me up in September.... But in 2004 I sold the building ... (it's now a cute little cafe called
The Village Perk and moved my stock home to New Brunswick and combined the glass studio and the gallery into one business called Fireball Gallery And Studio... I think my beads look like little fireballs... so the name was a no brainer!
Why am I Islandgirl on Etsy.... who knows.. I was a buyer who started to sell.... but I DO live on an island (10 miles long and 3 miles wide... 20 minute ferry ride ... no bridge!)
Check out the
Starving Artists Blog to see what other members are doing and learn interesting facts about Jewellery and Gemstones! and here's the links to other members participating this month!
O'Refined
Sophi
Galadryl
Family Jewels
Bead Sophisticate
Paintinbyfaith
J3Jewelry
Northern Girl Jewelry
BeadSire
