Until the recent CHA Craft Supershow, it had been years since HALOS exhibited at any shows. Gary is busy in a second career (so we can have health insurance), after retiring from 27 years of teaching high school. We have also been busy with grandchildren, and aside from filling orders from customers of years past, we were mostly retired!
We were way ahead of our time with our mounting system. We loved the years we traveled all over the country (even Hawaii) demonstrating how to use our system, which used thick black loop tape on the stamps, and the opposite hook tape on the mount. It allowed people to have rubber stamps galore, store them in a fraction of the space, find them easier, and see where they stamped. One "issue" was the lack of companies who would sell unmounted. We acquired many wonderful images over the years and and I loved "cooking" them up in rubber. We had so many images, we never ever got them all online.
When the economy changed, we decided to slow down.
None of our five daughters had time to continue our business... until now. Our oldest daughter LeeAnn, (mother of six also), now has teenagers that need jobs. She is excited to take over!
Our decision to participate in the CHA Craft Supershow was one we heard about one day and only had the weekend to sign up and less than a week to prepare for and travel to Anaheim. The weather did not cooperate for those of us who flew, and those who drove, but we made it! More later.............
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