baltimore beauties

It's been a nasty winter - cold, snowy and grey. It was time to leave town, head south and work on some serious R&R. But before vacation could begin, we needed to stop off in Baltimore for the American Craft Council show.

We last attended the show three years ago, right before we opened JOOLZ. We found some great artists at the show in 2007 and were pleased to learn that many of them would be at this year's show. While e-mail and phone communications are good, in-person is best. It was time to chat with the artists, see their new work and plan for some new pieces to be delivered before our grand reopening in April.

While I had the best of intentions to get photos of all our artists in their booths, I managed to take pix of only two of them. Here is glass and silver artist Kristin Perkins with Bill:

and Jane Bohan in her booth, surrounded by lots and lots of gorgeous gold joolz:

Apologies to all our other artists for forgetting I had the camera in my purse. But it was great to chat with them all and I am thrilled with the new pieces that will be arriving in the spring. JOOLZ is going to be Sparkle Central.