[Woodcarver] BH & G's Annual Santa Book

[SantaCarvinLady at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/10/2004 9:01:10 AM Pacific Daylight Time,  
oldon at earthlink.net writes:

As a  perpetual subscriber to Better Homes and Garden's annual "Santa  
Collection"  (hardbound edition, not the magazine),  I received  it in 
yesterday's mail and was pleased to see how well they presented our  own 
"Santa Carving Lady", Teri Embrey.

They did her proud as well  she deserves to be presented to the public.

Congratulations, Teri and I  wish you much success as knowledge of your 
abilities reaches out to an  ever expanding circle of admirers.





Thanks, Don.   I was amazed when I saw the book, too -  remember how scary 
the interview/photoshoot was?   (Or rather, how  scary *I* was)    They took all 
my slobbery gobbledygook and  turned it into something pretty lovely.   What 
an amazing honor to  have been chosen for inclusion - every article, every 
artist and collector are  really something else.    And, of course, how lucky am 
I that "a  guy in Nashville told us about you" - thank you again, Don.
 
I do have copies of the book available through my website, and now  that its 
being distributed to all their "subscription" collectors, I'm beginning  to 
hear from people from all over.    The greatest reward I can  receive as an 
artist is to know that what I do here in my little Seattle cave is  somehow 
reaching into people's lives; that they take the time to stop and share  with me 
what my guys mean to them...the memories invoked, the gentle feelings  they share 
with me....with ME!   Yippety skippety - who could ask for  more?
 
Sorry I haven't been around much lately - seems I've had less  and less 
"computer time", working alot, devouring alot of books and  music.   All bring 
inspiration, and oh how easy it is to drift  through hours (sometimes days) at a 
time, carving, humming, painting,  and thinking.   Well, and then there are 
those times when I just have  to get out my air guitar and play along with the 
likes of Dave Matthews, Ani  DiFranco or Laura Love.   :-)
 
Teri
 

"Santas for the Soul"
Carvings by Folk Artist Teri  Embrey
_http://www.teriembrey.com_ (http://www.teriembrey.com/) 


"The remarkable thing about this gift of ours is that it has  its rise, I am 
convinced, in the very woes which beset us...it is our emotional  salvation." 
~ J.R. Fauset

"Serve dinner backward, do  anything...but for goodness sake, do something 
weird." ~ Elsa Maxwell

"In  isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities 
like a  miner seeking veins of treasures. In what shallow glimmering space 
shall I find  what glimmering glory?" ~ Jamaica Kincaid
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