Joining the Real World of Blogging!

Hi Blogger/Blogspot readers! Welcome to our corner of the blogging world. We want to share with you our experiences as we venture out to reach our dream of living our art. In 2009, our goals are to become successful Etsy sellers, move into our loft becoming urban dwellers, open our studio and gallery in Downtown Kingsport, and work together on our business full time.

"We" are Michael and Talina. We are a blended family and have four beautiful boys ages 10 months through 17 years. Our real jobs currently are: Michael works in a gallery as chief woodworker designing and building custom furniture; Talina is a registered nurse with a background in NICU, Pediatrics, PICU, and OB, but is currently doing telephone nursing. Michael has two BFAs from ECU School of Art in ceramics and wood design. Talina has her BSN from ETSU, but is also a creative spirit, like Michael, and enjoys photography, crocheting, graphic designing, and more. Talina is quite the techie and will venture out to teach herself whatever application she is interested in at the moment. As a family we enjoy spending lots of quality time together, preferably outdoors, but also watching movies, playing PS3, and bowling.

Well, that's a bit about us. Talina always has her iPhone in hand and Michael his Blackberry Storm, so feel free to comment, we'd love to hear from you! Mark us as a favorite, for we plan to post daily. Have a great day!