Birdland Creations New York Times article

Eventually I flew home yesterday after 3 hours delay in the flight......  It was a long day......

And today I was happy to receive a copy of the Sunday New York Times Article to see for myself what they had included.

Here are the three photos of me and my birds:

Happily they didn't use the real close-up one they had on the slideshow!  I struggle having my photo taken at the best of times, but that close-up was....well, close up!!!!

And here is what the full page in the Business section looked like:

It felt so good to be included and get all that free publicity!

The New York Times this week....who knows what comes next??  :-D

Birdland Creations In the New York Times today!

I am included in a slideshow in the New York Times online today - entitled "Suddenly the world is their market"! Here's the link: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/08/15/business/SOAPBOX-5.html

I haven't been able to see a paper yet as I just arrived in the UK but my friend Jennifer said it's printed in the Business section on the Soapbox page! Yeah!!!!!

Here are some screen shots of me and my work from the slideshow!:

Humphrey and Trisha the lovebirds are very excited - as are all us birds at Birdland!  Can't wait to get a copy in my hands!!

Weekly Bird in the Hand

As the saying "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" is all about gratitude for what you have..... here is my list of this week's bird in the hand events and things that made me happy.

1. I'm sure it'll be no surprise if you've read my blog this week that I am appearing in the Sunday New York Times tomorrow.  For that, I am extreeeeeeeeemely grateful - and equally excited!

Photo by ShironekoEuro

2. I was found for the NYTimes article from my store on Dawanda - so yeah for Dawanda!!

3. I'm flying back to England today for a quick visit so Virgin Atlantic and the pilot and staff etc definitely get my gratitude...assuming I get there safely...

Sister72

My New York Times Interview!

I've had an exciting couple of days and have been eager to share it with you.

On Friday I was approached my someone from the New York Times saying that she wanted to include me in a photo essay on selling handmade online.  You can imagine how excited I felt and wanted to tell everyone, but I also wanted to wait a while and see if it was all going to turn out OK and my answers etc fitted in with her article.

But yesterday I had a 2 hour photo shoot at my studio. The photographer - Peter DaSilva was great and I really enjoyed it.  He took photos as I created some of my Humphrey and Trisha Lovebird earrings, photographing all the different stages.  Above is the Humphrey that I made for him.

Then he took lots of shots of me in the studio which was quite a challenge. If you haven't seen my studio, it is a tiny attic space where you can only stand up in the middle of the room!  He had to crunch himself in odd little spaces to try and get shots of the room - looking quite the contortionist!

Then today I had a brief telephone interview -  just answering a few general questions on where I sell online etc - and as it is a photo essay,  that will be captions to photos rather than script. I have no idea how much, how big, how small, how many photos, how many other people etc there will be - but the article is scheduled for this SUNDAY in the Magazine.

Yes, Humphrey - you can take a bow! You did well yesterday.

I hope you'll share in my excitement and get a copy on Sunday.    As luck would have it - I will be getting off a plane in England on Sunday morning  for an expected visit back there so won't even be able to see it until I get back ......... unless I can hunt down a copy over there. However there is also a NY Times  magazine version online but not sure if they include everything.  You know that I'll be looking there anyhow!