Summer's heat pushed the timing evenings for our monthly sale of Terra Cotta Warriors at the Discovery Green Flea Market. Their PR firm has been putting out some information on dealers and yesterday my work was featured in the Houston Chronicle and I hope it improves sales this month. The paper was just the first. Today Fox News came to the house to film for two stories. The first will be as B-roll for a live interview on the Flea Market next Friday. And the following week the station will have another segment featuring my work as part of theie weekend or morning drive shows. Will try to post it when it arrives!!
It was a GREAT Flea! Many Thanks to all of you who stopped by my booth after reading the Houston Chronicle feature. It was great fun to hear your own relationships with the warriors and especially experience your own love affair with the ones to which you gave homes!
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Annie
7/25/2012 03:21:56 pm
Have now traveled back to Birmingham to reopen The Shirley Shop. A formidable task but not unachieveable. Shirley and I had a private showing for her today, preceded by lunch - which is a story unto itself!
We found the dress and blouse she had been wanting and a few things she wanted once she saw them. Indeed each had a story -- when or where she had worn it or bought it, and sometimes what had happened to her wearing it... She sat on a chair and I brought her the drawers in which I had organized her jewelry for sale. We played store and had the bestest time
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Annie
7/25/2012 03:32:05 pm
I filled the car with terra cotta warriors for the trip to Birmingham. I had made an appointment with Charlie Thigpen, proprietor of his Garden Gallery in the trendy yet solid Pepper Place revival of the Dr. Pepper plant on the city's east end. He and his partner, Cindy, were delighted to make room for a camp of my refugees. We home the Birmingham market responds well enough that more refugees will make their ways there.
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Natalie Bomke
1/30/2013 12:52:46 am
Hey Annie!
I looked and looked and looked for our story and I couldn't find it in our archive. I told you I'd get a copy and I wanted to let you know the status of that. Do you remember which day it aired? I looked at all possible dates and it's not popping up. Thanks!!