Jul 27

The business side of friendship…

View of Skipper's Dock where we had lunch and docked the boat. It was a bumpy ride over, but FUN!

Dear Friends, We sit on Laura’s back porch looking over our To-Do list and wishing we had just one more day to do it all. We seem to always have more ideas than we do time. Really, our favorite moments on visits like these are when we are in the studio creating artwork and dreaming up our next collaborative project. The business of selling our work, marketing what we do, making contacts for teaching and speaking engagements can really bog us down. We needed to remind ourselves today on the ride back from Laura’s studio that the business side is only a small piece to this important work we are doing together. Gently taking care of the wonderful friendship we have fostered over the past four years is our primary concern. Our friendship is what has allowed us to come this far in our work and continues to inspire us to continue pushing our work to be better. We want to not only be better artists, but better people having known one another.

We are all lucky if we find one true friend in this life time. We are charting unknown territory as we travel along this road to making our work into a business and want to thank you all for coming along with us.

Shells and rocks Tina collected while we were at the beach at Pine Island

We have many posts to come in the next few weeks about all the business decisions, creative jumps, celebrations of completed work, and projects planned for this coming year. For now we will leave you with some pictures of our “play” time while in Connecticut.

Two Friends.

Two Artists.

Two Entrepreneurs.

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
– Anais Nin

Cheers!

Tina & Laura