A Special Military Wife, Mother, and Artist



Creations by Gena

http://www.zibbet.com/creationsbygena

Surfing around the e-commerce site Zibbet, I saw this wonderful interview with Gena.  I immediately wanted to introduce you to this creative lady.

I'm only reposting the first portion of the interview, but you will find the link for the entire article at the end of this post.

Her shop, Creations by Gena, has a beautiful selection of all kinds of various art. If you like variety, you should be sure to stop in, because you can find gifts for every one of your friends and family. Gena currently resides in Georgia with her husband and is a proud supporter of the US Military.

1.Tell us a bit about yourself?

Hi Everyone my name is Gena of CreationsbyGena -specializing in glass art, Misc. Folk and collage art, Primitive crafts and More!

I am a Proud Army EOD (Bomb Squad) wife, which my husband is now retired after 22 years of service..yeah and I am also a very PROUD Air Force and Coast Guard mom (if I had more kids, I am sure I would have the other branches covered too…LOL). When I am not supporting my family I am an altered art, mixed media, Folk art artist. As far back as I can remember, I’ve always been creating things. …just ask my parents. In School while growing up, I took many art classes and graduated from a 4 year vocational school for Graphic and Advertising Design. I had planned on having a career in Graphic Arts, but let’s say “things change” and for the best I must say.


I like to work in different mediums and enjoy learning new techniques. I love to paint, and to craft things. “I hate an empty white wall, and think that the best way to defeat blankness is by making affordable art available to everyone.” It brings me great joy to share my love of vibrant, colorful, whimsical art and crafts with others, thus the reason for the many different items you will see my shop.

And here's a special item from Gena's shop that I thought the ACJ team would really appreciate.

 

Here's the link I promised so you can read the entire interview.  Please visit Gena's shop. She has such a variety of items (even sale items) that would make great gifts.  http://www.zibbet.com/blog/2011.11.21/featured-zibbeter-creationsbygena

Wishing everyone a very special Thanksgiving.

Pepper

Undiscovered Shops

Ah, the thrill of the first sale, the view counts climbing higher and higher each day.  All your hard work is beginning to pay off. 

Do you have your own business?  Do you remember those feelings and emotions running through you?  Wondering when that first sale will come?

Today, I wanted to share just a few “undiscovered” shops from some various marketplaces around town.  (okay, from the internet)  Today I’ll feature a couple of shops from Artfire, Etsy and Zibbet.  So click on their shop names, go wander around their shops a bit, and share the links with your friends.  Who knows, maybe their first sale will come from one of YOU!!! 

The Embroidered Crafter

FMSoap

JDSalvagedCreations

JustLovelyLTD

VintageWeddingifts

AmazingGrace

Thanks for stopping by, have a great rest of the week and see ya next time.

~~~ Duuude ~~~ 

So What Else Are You Up To????

The previous post showed great selections from the Esty shops of each member of this collective blog....but since we all have other shops, either ecommerce or brick and mortor, I thought this would be a good time for all of us to share our other shops,  where else we are selling, or trying to sell, our personal blogs or whatever :)  A little promotion is always helpful..

So I will go first!

I do have a VintageEmbellishment shop on Etsy but  have just recently opened VintageEmbellishment2 on the Zibbet site...
you can find my new shop here...

VintageEmbellishment2

There are currently about 15 items for sale in VE2, they are basically the same type of vintage merchandise I offer in my Etsy shop . I  found Zibbet to be an easy site to set up a shop on and to navigate around.  It is fairly new, headquartered in Australia and hopefully will provide a new market for me...time will tell!

If you are a poster on this blog, then post your shop and or blog info right in this post...if you are a visitor please feel free to put in the comment section any information you would like to share or promote...lets all take a peek at what others are doing...

Have fun everyone 
VE
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I am transferring Peppercorns2 infor from the comment section to here for her :)

I have a new Zibbet shop also, and I find their setup so easy to work with, I love it:
Peppercorns

I also have a new Artfire shop:
Peppercorns

Please come visit. Thank you. :0)

Pepper