It’s been slightly more than a month since I started selling my ceramic balloons on Etsy. A rough start and a good start.
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Making balloons making happiness
Excited like a kid, I have good news to share 💡
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Since I started doing ceramic, my interest in learning more about Vietnamese folk arts has grown. On one hand, it helps me to understand my origin, my root – something that has become more and more important to me. On the other hand, I want to see if I can incorporate any element of the Vietnamese folk arts into my ceramic work. This is a way to keep me connected with my heritage and be able to promote Vietnamese culture within the international communities – my personal wish as a Vietnamese living abroad.
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That’s right, kiln owner. To many potters and ceramicists, owning a kiln is special milestone. It is a big investment, and it signifies the next level of commitment with ceramics 🙂
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I’ve been living in Portland for three years and a half, and the longer I live here the more I find Portland “weird” – in a good way. (There’s a saying “Keep Portland weird” – everyone lives in Portland knows) I would say Portland is a town or small city of artists and people who enjoy hand-made, home-made goods. Portland artists include visual artists, potters, micro-brewery owners, pop-up restaurant chefs, and many other types of artists.
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2019 is approaching and it will be not appropriate to summarize my 2018 without mentioning a very important event, if not the most important of the year: I got married. My first career, which was also the closest to arts before I started Dat Set, was being a wedding planner. I had planned many weddings throughout that career. When I officially “stopped” being a wedding planner and had the next jobs, I was still involved in weddings in different ways. In Vietnam, although it’s been almost ten years since I started my wedding planning business, many people still know and regard me as a very talented wedding planner, a pioneering one who started my own wedding planning business before anyone dared to do it, and made it a successful brand name. It makes me feel proud and I also find it funny when some of them still wonder why I “gave up” on the business when it was clearly going to be successful. Weddings to me are special, and I can’t help having a lot of mixed feelings when it comes to my own wedding.
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