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All my shows for 2020 have been cancelled, so I am taking an unplanned and unexpected break til next year.

     I totally miss being at shows, meeting my customers, making connections with other artists, selling jewelry pieces I had made over the winter, staying in budget hotels and Airbnb’s, listening to books on CD on the road, eating Reese’s peanut butter cups on the way home, finding hidden neighborhoods in towns all over the Midwest, and telling my story of Parts of Art to anyone who came in the booth. 

What I don’t miss is getting lost on the way to a show in spite of Google maps, holding down my tent with both hands during a sudden windstorm, arriving at my Airbnb the night before the show and realizing it’s in the roughest side of town, getting my tent all set up and realizing I forgot all my display fixtures, having to have homeless people vacate the spot where my booth goes, having a reaction from eating undercooked or overcooked food truck food, not having enough sales to  cover basic expenses, and having a neighboring artist with no weights on their tent. 

That being said, after this unplanned and unexpected break I am very much looking forward to the 2021 show season! See you there!

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