by Betsy Lehndorff https://www.facebook.com/betsy.lehndorff It’s 10 p.m. Saturday and I see my garage door open in front of me as I pull up to my house. After a 3 ½-hour drive I am finally back and that’s a relief. As…

by Betsy Lehndorff https://www.facebook.com/betsy.lehndorff Today I took the morning off from the art show and let Lori, another jeweler, set up my display. She did a wonderful job, getting my pieces up off the bottom of the case, and when…

by Betsy Lehndorff https://www.facebook.com/betsy.lehndorff Yes. I am starting this blog off with a secret — and there is no way to say this tastefully, but deodorant is an essential item if you are selling at summer art fairs. That and…

by Betsy Lehndorff https://www.facebook.com/betsy.lehndorff Guess what? Our booth survived. It didn’t get blown away by last night’s winds and was still standing this morning when we all arrived to finish our set up at 7:30 a.m. Last night when we…

by Betsy Lehndorff https://www.facebook.com/betsy.lehndorff Can you say “disaster”? Add an exclamation mark to it and in one word you will be describing what it was like to set up for the Ann Arbor Art Fair on South University this afternoon…

by Betsy Lehndorff https://www.facebook.com/betsy.lehndorff It’s Monday evening and I am sitting at my tree-shaded Michigan home listening to the cardinals singing in the woods. About a hundred yards away is Hubbard Lake, which I see from the windows of my…