What a great anniversary!

So this week stands as the one year anniversary of my first pipe. I'll try to snap a photo of my first pipe in the next day or so, along with the most recent one. I feel I've come an awful long way in just a year. Admittedly I have been constantly working on a pile of pipes during this last year, but still, I'm surprised I've been able to do as much as I have.

Today marked a fine way to celebrate this anniversary. There's a metal working school and art gallery in Kalamazoo called the Smart Shop. It is a major stop on our town's Art Hop circuit. There's a big metal shop, a beautiful garden with amazing sculptures, and a nice gallery full of work by several different artists.

They contacted me last week, asking if I would be interested in showing/selling my pipes in their gallery from November until January. They said they would like to make me the featured artist for the December Art Hop.

Holy wow!!

I owe an article written by Jessi Phillips and some photos taken by Jill McLane Baker, which was in the Kalamazoo Gazette, for being noticed by the folks at the Smart Shop. I am so excited about doing this, and honored to have been asked. I've never done anything like this before, so I'm a little nervous, but mostly excited.

The contract was signed today. It'll be a couple of months until this thing gets going, but come Octoberish I will post some details. Until then I will be working like crazy to have enough pipes done for both my shop and the gallery.