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9.01.2010
A YEAR in Review

Here it is folks, a year in review! I can harldy believe it and cannot wait to toast this year with beloved friends who have helped me every step of the way and truly believed in me. 

Let's take a walk down memory lane...

A year ago today, we signed some papers, handed over some money, and had a little party.

A few days later, we had a BIG party, it was gallery walk, and the whole town showed up.

Elyse Garling, Teresa, and I celebrated the end of an era with Teresa, and new beginnings for all of us.

Friends young and old came to celebrate and give fabulous teenage looks.

 

We had a roof leak or two...

 

 

We've laughed A LOT!

 

 

 

New friends have been made.

 

There's been a lot of love.

 

Maybe a little sassy attitude or two...

SISTERS have come and visited!

 

There's been dancing, a lot of dancing...

Who needs yoga when you own a gallery!

I really take very good care of my customers!

And I couldn't have done any of it without these folks, there smiles, laughs, cheesy posed pictures, and 100% support and dedication to this little dream.

 

As a special thanks to my dear husband who never in a million years would have bought an art gallery, I'm going to post a song for him.  This song, is trashy, classless, and raunchy, you've been warned.  But to me, this song makes me remember the day in June that Chase and I talked about buying the gallery, he was NOT 100% on board, but the next day he came into the house and had found this song on-line, he put it on for me, we danced around the kitchen, and I knew we were going for it.

 

 

8.31.2010
364 days later.

If you were to ask me what I was doing a year ago today, I could actually answer you.  I was switching between doing cartwheels in my front yard, to running frantically all over town learning about insurance, incorporation, press releases, the artists with whom I was to work, and then back to the cartwheels.  It was one of the most stressful and exciting times of my entire life thus far.  I could not believe that I was accomplishing MY dream, I didn't really know that we as individuals could actually get to do that.  Previously it had seemed to me, that only the people in the movies truly got to accomplish dreams, and make wonderful things happen for their lives, but there I sat, 29 years old, with nothing more than a few hundred dollars to my name, making MY dream come true.  After that the funniest thing happened, over the next months MY dream becamse OUR dream, a collective of artists, friends, patrons, customers, and admirers, all feeling a sense of ownership and camaraderie through this inkling of a dream, started 18 years ago, that I now call mine. 
 
I've realized that the things about which I dream, and move toward achieving (because watch out world, I had a taste of realizing I can accomplish the impossible, and now nothing is going to stop me) are rarely just about me, they are about a larger whole.  I am honored to work and know such a fine group of people, whether they stop into the shop once a year, or whether they come in to visit every week. This has become my labor of love, and it is about all of us working together and supporting one another.  Thank-you for having faith in me during this entire first year.  And here's to many many more that we can celebrate together, as we help achieve our goals every day, and try and show a little beauty to what is sometimes a dark and dingy world.
 
 
 
Thanks Teresa! I love ya darling!
 
 
P.S. To a very special couple, (you know who you are) who live a "little" south of Port Townsend, THANK-YOU for having faith in me, supporting me, and truly helping me accomplish my goal.  My eyes tear up just thinking of you two and what you have done for me, and this community that you know only through travels and visits.  The world is a better place because of people like you, and the generosity you have given so open-heartedly.