I've been selling images to OUR WISCONSIN MAGAZINE consistently for over a year now. So we've had images in the last 7 issues and still going strong. We recently found out just how many people actually follow us on our adventures through the magazine when we had a family life event where a lot of our friends and family came to visit and commented on so many of our images. It was so life and career confirming to hear so many wonderful compliments from so many of you! So thanks to all of you that stopped by and said ..."we LOVE you pictures in Our Wisconsin Magazine"...and encouraged us to keep shooting. We will, I promise, the best is yet to come!The magazine keep us hopping. We are always trying to stay ahead of their requests so during 2014 we put on over 20,000 miles; and all of this was traveling just the State of Wisconsin! During our travels to all the small communities in our area for local farm markets and gallery walks we met and decided to team with two wonderful venues. First, Julie Balson at the Gallery and Frame Shop in Fond du Lac invited us to sell items during a Gallery Walk event where we quickly became great friends...and she started carrying some of our items and then selling our items. And more recently, we teamed with Alissa Jacoby-Henrickson and her brand NEW store that just opened in Kimberly; Creative Juices Artisan Shoppe. Alissa is a wonderful example of a artisan/teacher who had dreams of opening her shop since 2009. And when the bottom fell out of the economy so did her plans; until now.
We decided it was much easier and much more cost and time effective to place items in several brick and mortar stores than it was to travel, set-up, man our booth, take down and travel back home...all during what could potentially be precious shooting time. Because we live and shoot in Wisconsin, where the weather changes every five minutes, we were loosing out on a lot of precious shooting time while we were manning a booth at an event. It was more like a win-lose situation when we had to keep making choices as to whether we wanted to enter an event or to shoot. This way items are on display and for sale 6 days a week in a store front (Creative Juices will even have all the items online very shortly). We are more available to our customer that way. And we are free to shoot any day the weather or an event inspires us. We're also available to take off at a moments notice where as commitments for events were holding us back. Don't get me wrong....we are still doing Gallery Shows and will have several openings this coming year. I haven't updated my calendar yet, but have items at the Share Gallery in Fond du Lac right now; and planned for the Trout Museum in Appleton and Wild Apple Gallery in Menasha. So watch for those coming event announcements on my Facebook page.
Gallery and Frame Shop
94 South Main Street
Fond du Lac, WI
920-921-1144
Ask for Julie!
http://www.galleryframe.net
https://www.facebook.com/galleryframe
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Creative Juices Artisan Shoppe
309 Kimberly Ave
Kimberly, WI
920-858-9393
Ask for Alissa!
http://www.getyourjuicesmoving.com
https://www.facebook.com/CJArtisanShoppe
Happy Shopping!
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Fremont, WI 54940
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