Its the weekend!

The weekend for us = our busy time.

Yesterday was actually a very busy day as well.  I met the owner of the Inn at the Tartan Fox in Keene, as well as the owner of the Benjamin Prescott Inn literally two minutes down the road from us in Jaffrey.

I love this area.  The more people I meet, the more I love it.  These two individuals have great things going on in their businesses, and they wish to extend it out to other local businesses like us!  Both of these inn's brought home some glass to put on display and for sale on a consignment basis.  Works great for everyone!  Hopefully we can continue meeting people, making these connections, and helping everybody out!

Yesterday was also exciting on the topic of our interns.  We are always trying to reach out and help students in the area.  We do this by giving them experience helping us in the hot shop and teaching them what we know.  It is very much a work/learn exchange.  We get some much needed help, and they get to experience the wonders of glass.  It is also a great resume builder.

Over the summer we had an art student named Haley who came in to help us.  Haley turned out to be so reliable, loved glass, and is transferring to Keene State.  Keene state is only about 25 minutes from us and she only has three hours left on her internship.  Therefore, Haley has agreed to come on as an employee to help us sporadically throughout the school year.  She is also going to be representing us at our booth during Keene Pumpkin Fest, which is our biggest event of the year.  Thanks Haley, great job!

Yesterday we met a new volunteer intern, Abbi.  Abbi took a glassblowing class over the summer and wrote us a letter requesting to do an apprenticeship with us.  We aren't comfortable with the word apprenticeship because we are nowhere near master glassblowers, but we could use some help!  Abbi will be coming in to help us in exchange for being able to hangout in the studio and learn about glass.  Boy, we love being surrounded by people that think glass is cool!  Yesterday was Abbi's first day and she did great.  Very excited to see more of her.  See you next Friday Abbi!

Boy, so much happened yesterday!  In the middle of all these appointments, we also managed to make almost an annealer full of pumpkins.  I injured my jaw and have been out of commission for over a month now.  Yesterday was my first day of actually blowing glass.  Time to commence PUMPKIN MANIA in preparation for all of our fall events.

So the Shattuck Golf course has opened up free "vending" for local businesses.  They have a bunch of visitors throughout the fall, leaf peepers.  We are working on a setup to represent us.  It has to be outside, and it has to last safely throughout one whole fall month.  Yesterday I spray painted a trash barrel black on the outside, and orange on the inside.  I also spray painted a stool black.  This will be my representation of a glory hole.  Josh and Abbi helped me begin a glassblower scarecrow.  Hopefully I will have some time this weekend to continue working on it

Sad news for us is that today we were supposed to be attending the Antrim Home and Harvest Festival, which we will not be able to do.  Anne Marie is sick, and we have our wonderful friend Colleen bringing all of her coworkers into the studio for a team building workshop.

I will let you know how the workshop goes though, very excited!

Thanks for reading!

-Dom