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Page 10 — Halton Hills This Week, Taking Cafe Wednesday, June 16, 1993 ar eae Business Allstate LIFE, AUTO, HOME, RRSP DAVID R. WALSH 232A Guelph St., Suite 204 eit 2200 FY ° Fd sowe™ s “ s, < 7H aisth 873-1643 Toll Free 1-800-387-9974 | .. Out at the with Bill Ellis THE CRAFT Have you been to a craft show and sale recently? Maybe you are a craft show junkie, like Pat and I. Every time we see an ad, we just have to one point I collected Pottery -- must ve. pot from almost every potter in the country! We finally started to develop our own craft hobbies. Pat got involved with rug hooking, then quilting and now almost any variety of stitchery. I started building picture frames, then on to building Early American reproduction furnishings and now wood carving. Our home is really jammed and the kid's homes look a bit like a craft show. We are finally to the point of selling our crafts or giving up our hobbies. Not on your life! So sell we must! Almost every community in the markets are taking in more and more craft people. One of the latest moves is to have crafters display and sell ir wares in a permanent craft mar- ket, like the "Artisans of Peel" craft market which is opening this sum- mer, in Brampton. Of course, the grand daddy of craft shows and sales is the "One of a Kind” show at Easter and Christmas, in Toronto. A mammoth show of most wondrous craft gifts. Artisans take a look at some of the craft show line-ups in the U.S.A. IN-STOCK FABRIC OF OUR INTERIOR DESIGN GALLERY GEORG Invariably, a craft is started as a bby, and quite often, will continue as just that -- a hobby, with the crafter only selling at two or three shows a year. Others are propelled into.a part time business, then maybe to full time. Some take in the whole family plus numerous employees. Other than the benefits of being self employed, why the popularity of being in the craft business? 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