by Gregory Smallwood | Oct 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
While I was in Sevierville, Tennessee a couple of weeks ago, I got to spend a few minutes with my dear friends Picasso Gaglione, Darlene Domel, and Fred the Wonder Bear — they came to visit from their retirement villa in Knoxville. How they got from San...
by Gregory Smallwood | Oct 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
This started two weeks ago while we were setting up for a show in York, Pennsylvania – Pat Huntoon from Technique Junkies was across the aisle from me. I heard her mention that she was doing a show in Sevierville, Tennessee the following weekend and a...
by Gregory Smallwood | Sep 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
When you come into our booths at shows, you see the finished product that takes us hours to build. But sometimes there are a few monkey wrenches thrown in along the way. This story is from setup at the Syracuse show in May . . . and I should begin by...
by Gregory Smallwood | Aug 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
“Superheroes Assemble” was the costume theme for the Stampaway USA Preview Party three weeks ago. Didn’t see as many customer entries as I have some years, but several of the vendors went all out. Here are some of the best that I saw . ....
by Gregory Smallwood | Aug 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
I have traveled thousands of miles this year – haven’t even tried to count the number of states I have rolled through. At every show, there is at least one image that burns itself into my brain. Some are better than others – and this one is the...
by Gregory Smallwood | Aug 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
The other story that needs to be told before we can move forward (or at least bounce back and forth) started last November 2. I had just gotten off the phone with my friend Ben Andrews, who called to tell me that his prostate cancer surgery had been...
