This last year in school I had been talking with one of my students about making pens and he had been working in Vo-Tech class (machine shop?) to make his own pen. He had a few barrels and caps and one good section, but was never able to get a whole finished pen. I wrote […]
There were 52 entries this month and 36 got it. Congrats to Mary G! I’m going to put off starting the next bit of post card sales and pen drawing until July so I can work on getting a 501c3 started up, along with some new art post cards. Thank you all so much for […]
Hi Everybody! First I want to say thank you ALL for all you have done to make these scholarships possible. Without you none of this would have happened. There’s still a couple weeks left in May to raise money for this years’ scholarships. We’re $122 short of $6,000. I expect that we’ll make that and […]
I had a couple visitors come by the Shop in April and I think a few of you may know them. Leigh Reyes and Thomas Hall came by, Leigh all the way from the Philippines, to see a pen being made. I didn’t expect them to bring a small pen show with them, as well. […]
Wow I’m a day late! I can’t believe it completely slipped by me. I was so sure that tonight was the last day of April. Yikes. Well, the winner is, picked by Random.org, #21! Congratulations Beth! Now the hard part, deciding what to get! 🙂 We raised $380.45 this month! That puts us up to […]
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 help, please let me know. There’s still plenty of time for you to buy some […]
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 a big congrats to Celeste for winning the drawing for March! She’ll be getting her […]
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 crowds and enjoy some peace and quiet with your family and flowers. Fairy houses…
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 essays please send me a note. All essays will be judged in whatever way you […]
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 bathroom. I had such a great time. Things started nice and easy Friday morning at […]