Making Pens and awarding scholarships since 2012
Making Pens and awarding scholarships since 2012
And the applications are all in! I received 30 in all this year. I’m excited to read through them all, too. Eleven people have volunteered to read the essays to help pick scholarship recipients. If you’re interested in reading to…
First of all, apologies for being late posting this, I thought I had posted on the 31st, but there must have been a bit of a glitch on my end, so here it is for sure this time. 🙂 So…
We took a trip to Garvin Woodland Gardens today. If you’re ever visiting Hot Springs, you should take a few hours to go walk the trails at the Gardens. Really beautiful place and enough trails to get away from any…
Hi Everybody! It’s March! So far we have almost $5000 raised for the scholarships. I’ve been getting applications in the mail like crazy this last week. I’ve got 9 readers so far, if you want to volunteer to help read…
The Arkansas Pen Show was this weekend and I had a blast. We had great traffic through the door. I was so busy meeting new friends and talked with so many people that I didn’t even think about using the…
The February fund raiser ends the 28th! That’s this Saturday. If you want to participate in this month’s drawing don’t delay. You could win your own custom pen! Like this one perhaps… So far you’ve all helped to raise $4547.06. …
I have a lot of art I want to sell. All of the profits – that is, everything except shipping costs – will go into the scholarship fund. First though – I want to mention that the deadline for the…
Big Announcement I’ve been teaching for almost 7 years now, and while the job has had its ups and downs, I love teaching. I don’t think I’m the best art teacher there is, I’m sure I leave a LOT of…
Using Random.org to pick a number from 1-52, #31 got it! Congrats to Keith M! And thanks so much to everybody who participated. We raised $510 this month! $4396 total! We’re only about $1600 away from meeting last years total…
When I first started making pens, I organized them by shape, size, and how the cap fit against the body when it was closed. After a while I decided to come up with some proper names to make it easier…