Buon giorno! This is Penny, finally taking a turn at writing from Venice. While Claude’s writing has been more focused on the new bead designs, I am going to write more about our experiences in Venice itself – a bit more of a travelogue, as we have had friends and followers who have asked about
Today has been a bit quiet, as we wait to receive some of our sample perle (beads) on Monday. We visited one of our two primary partners and suppliers on Murano, to pick up some samples from them. We were VERY pleased with what we got – very much what we had envisioned. Our Spring
We had a busy and productive day today. We spent the day with two of our beadmakers, one on Murano and the other in the city of Mestre at the opposite end of the causeway that links the island of Venice with the mainland. On our Vaporetto ride to Murano, we saw workers changing a
Beautiful day here, quite a stark difference from the horizontal driven snow that we experienced during our last trip. Vive la difference! We met with our local banker, so we’re in business! Gifts have been delivered to our artisan partners and their families, to renew our acquaintance. They LOVED the creative gifts that Penny chose:
When to (un)Friend – (un)Follow?
A couple of days ago, we noticed this tweet: “If a casual acquaintance friended you in Facebook, started posting offers for jewelery, Tupperware, etc, would you unfriend?” We might be one of those “jewelry people” that the author of that tweet refers to. The bottom-line nitty-gritty reality is that we’re all selling something. We sell
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