Thanks Oak Brook!

This past weekend Second Chance Art & Accessories TM participated in the Invitational Oak Brook Fine Craft Exhibition & Sale. We had beautiful weather & a great booth location. Thanks everyone for stopping by the booth. The pictures at right are from this weekend. My sister, aka my personal photographer, helped me out a ton this weekend - thanks Jan! Of course, she snapped this one with me not paying attention in the back of the booth. The lower picture shows my feet & hers - probably the most you'll ever see of her if she can help it!

Next up will be the Frankfort Fall Festival over labor day weekend. In the mean time, I'm working on filling my custom orders, and I've got some great new projects on deck for the Frankfort show. Stay tuned for more "behind the scenes" posts from Second Chance Art & Accessories!

Show updates

Hi everyone...... yes, it's been a while since my last post - proving again, that I am not a computer person (nor am I a "diary" type of person, for that matter!).


In my never ending quest to expand my business & provide interesting insight into what makes Second Chance Art & Accessories what it is... I will continue my efforts to make posts more frequent!


On a personal note - I have recently taught for 2 weeks in Chicago, and have started a new part time teaching job at Joliet Junior College. I teach nutrition classes to culinary arts and nursing students.


On the Second Chance Art side of my life - thanks for visiting my booth at the Arlington Heights Promenade of Art (June 2-3) and the Joliet Fine Art Festival of the Masters (June 30 & July 1). I've added some pictures from these shows for you to check out. The top left photo is from the Arlington Heights show. The top & bottom photos below show my booth at the Joliet show. Since I live in Joliet, my husband brought our doggies for a visit. I don't think they are into art. Polly "the bacon" is the big brown lab, and Olive "the pea" is my personal trainer / running partner / border collie runt.


The bottom middle picture shows us loading up my loot to transport to Joliet. This process is quite an ordeal at the moment. In the future I'd like to get some sort of trailer to make transport & loading a little easier. Thank God for husbands & fathers that turn into "packmasters" before each of my shows.



My next show will be the Oakbrook Center Fine Craft Invitational, July 14-15. Hope to see you there!