Hi again,
I wanted to share with you the two larger stained glass panels I sold this weekend at LaCenterra Fa la la market. The lavender one I had just completed this past week, and the Texas State Flag I've had since October. They both went to a kind gentleman who seemed to love them both, so I know they're going to a good home! {:^/ Sort of a bitter sweet parting of the ways with my panels. I know, crazy, huh? I get attached...

Thank you, Milt, for taking these two home with you!

Hello everyone!

Ana Maria and I were at the LaCenterra Farmer's Market for the Fa La La Christmas Market this Saturday, Dec. 6th. It was a beautiful day; sunny, clear skies, lots of good foods: coffee, fresh brown eggs from free-range hens, lots of lovely gift items around the square. I met three new artisans who are very interested in joining our group, looking for more exposure, as are we all. I will be inviting them to our blog site soon. They wish to come to our January meeting and are excited to meet up with other artisans. I explained that we want to grow our group so that eventually we can have our own "Artisans of Houston Art Fair" or even our own Trunk Shows and they all seemed to like that idea. Slow but sure, we are getting closer to our goals.

I was encouraged by people who took my "Custom Orders" form to fill out at a later date. I'm hoping to get more commissions for windows this way. It seems each time I attend an art fair, there are more people asking for commissions. I want to pass this encouragement along to everyone else out there, because it can be done in any art form. I know several of us have "Custom Order" forms...have you thought about doing this for yourself? It's another opportunity to advertise, which eventually may increase sales. At least, that's what we're all hoping.

If I don't get back on here before Christmas, everyone have a beautiful, loving Christmas with whoever is important to you in your life.

Diane
Haus of Glass

Fa- La- La- La Holiday Market at Lacenterra in Katy

Artisan Fair & Farmers Market at Lacenterra in Katy
Originally uploaded by Amaria Studio

This Holiday Market is on December 6, 2008 from 8 am to 6:00pm. Please come out and support your local artisans. Please check website http://www.farmersmarketatlacenterra.com for a complete list of artisans participating. I hear Santa will be there!

We have a tracker now!

I have just installed a tracker on the blog, so we can keep track of visitors (in general terms, no worries on privacy). We'd like to find out if it would be worthwhile to add an RSS feed, so if you're interested leave a comment, or join the "follow this blog" thing on the side, or, I don't know... reload a lot so I can see you like looking at the page (since I know no one leaves comments). :)

Show off and tell!

I was just featured in a website as a fave & wanted to share with yall.
This may only be up a week, so if you don't get to see it you may also go to my Flickr page as I copied it there which had to be 3 pics.
Http://www.Flickr.com/photos/VisualSmilesGallery
The link to the website is: http://indiesmiles.com/favs/sues-fav-visual-smiles-gallery

Following Widget

We discussed adding a feedburn to our blog, but need to determine our followers first. If you are following our blog, please join at the widget at the top of the sidebar. If you are local to Houston, not an artisan, but love to purchase handmade one of a kind items, following would be a great way to find out where to find us locally!

Members of Artisans Team, please join the Widget, to help us see how many "other" followers we have. ;)

Next Meeting for our Local Mini Team will be on January 20

Because Cafe Express has worked so well for the last two meetings, we have decided to meet there again in January. If you are a local etsy shop owner, or artisan interested in becoming active with our team, please join us at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, January 20th. We were able to push several tables together in the side room and have a great get together! So be sure to look around for a large group of ladies, we usually eat first and then discuss upcoming opportunities.