Yes, we are open Sunday!

We decided three weeks ago to try opening Sunday afternoons and seeing if anyone walked through the door. The push for Sunday openings was made by the assistant set director for "Christmas in Wonderland" a movie currently being shot here in the city. She said it was the only day she had off and thought this was probably true of many others as well so....I'm sitting here with time to blog! Speaking of the movie though, the residential scenes were shot just ten blocks from here and we are represented in those scenes by a few dozen of our beeswax candles and a winter scene painted by Bob McLean of two horses and a haywagon in front of a snowcovered barn. Supposedly the painting was hung in the living room and the candles play a big part in one scene. We'll have to wait until November when it hits theatres to see for sure.

Speaking of Sunday and things religious....our showing of the bronze bust of the Madonna della Pieta by Michelangelo has been educational for us at least. Only a handful of people have actually come in to see it. It has been featured on the website now for close to a week, rates prominently in Google search, and yet of the 600 hits on our website only one person has looked at the page with the slide show. (thanks Mom) Yesterday we had good traffic through the store and it was interesting to see peoples reactions to the bust. They ranged from the sculptor who asked permission to touch where master sculptor had created such art from stone, to those people who were only looking for "real art" and couldn't be bothered to waste more than a passing glance. Another class in marketing 101.

We should find out in the next couple of days when we can go to Prince George to pick up our Romanian Glass shipment, work by Ion Tamaian. Another gamble. Is there a market for high end art glass in Edmonton? Stay tuned.

Phoenician glass has proved to be very popular. The amber shade and swirling, organic appearance is unlike anything anyone else is showing and is really a touch with antiquity as the process predates glass blowing and the region of the middle east where the glass is made is agreed upon by most historians to be where glass was discovered thousands of years ago.

Pottery has proved to be popular this week so our idea of bringing the studio downtown seems to be a good thing. With tourist season just around the corner we hope to be one of those destination spots we are always hearing about. I'll let you know.

IM'd with my son Torrey in Iraq yesterday. Said they had a rocket attack for a wake up. Several casualties but no U.S. among them which is a good thing. Counting the days until he is out of there.

And on that cheerful note I'll go for now.