World Of Michael Trent

Have some exciting news to share with everyone!!! There is a huge arts & crafts show here in Sao Paulo called the Mega Artesenal , and I will be demoing for a company called True Colors .  I am very excited about this and it's a huge opportunity for me.  Back in November, when I decided to try Brasil for two months (to make sure I could really really live here), Ruy and I met with Luciana at True Colors.  True Colors makes products for the scrapbooker, cardmaker, altered artist, and the hobbyist, and I was interested in selling their products here in our store.  But, before I could sell any of it, I had to understand what the products did.  And, since the products all have Brasilian names, I had to know what was what.  Gesso here is not the same as gesso in the states.   So Ruy and I went for a 3 hour training class, which I blogged about here.   During the training, Eduardo, the owner, came down to meet us.  Luciana sho...

Ok, I'll admit it...say it out loud...for the whole world to know....[taking big gulp here] -  I AM A PENOPHILE .  No, not what you are thinking Barbara Briskin - it means that I love pens and markers.  Yes, it's a real word.  Trust me.  You can Google it.  I love any pen that writes with a fine tip, has bright colors, or colors well.  I own a good amount of Copics and Spectrum Noir alcohol markers and a very good supply of Tombow markers, which are water based markers.  Now I get to add Wink of Stella markers to my collection.  These markers have glitter in them.  How I missed these new pens at CHA in January is a mystery to me.  But, thanks to my good friend Barbara at The Ink Pad in NYC, she saw them and ordered them for the store.  When they got them in and I tried one, I was hooked, and ended up buying all the colors they had. And now I have the pleasure of passing this on to you guys. These new pens are mad...

Hi everyone.  Sorry I disappeared for - um - 4 months.  But I have a good reason.  I moved to Brasil.   After coming home in January, life got a bit hectic.  As soon as I landed I had to cover hours for my friend Barbara at The Ink Pad in NYC.  She had come down with a bit of the flu and, since she was going to be my CHA buddy for a week, she needed to get better.  So I covered her hours for a week. The following week was CHA.  My first one.  It was fun.  It was overwhelming.  It was exhausting.  It was fantastic.  If you ever get a chance to go to a CHA show - GO!!  For me, going from the consumer side to the buying side for our store in Brasil, it was even stranger.  I knew so many of the vendors from local stamp shows or from using their products for the past 20 years.  It's a great time to meet some of those bloggers who you watch, get to meet some of the stamping/scrapping celebs that you ...