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In a message dated 5/25/2003 11:31:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, jana@...
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> > I wanted to say that someone is capable of becoming an artist, and
> > really making it in the world. My husband supports our family very
> > comfortably. He never went farther than H.S. but he always tells the
> > story of sleeping in class and the teacher telling him,"he will
> > never amount to anything" and some one pipes up and says
> > "teacher..he already makes more money than you"! He was airbrushing
> > T-shirts in Daytona. He has gone on to be a very succesfull artist!
>
>

We have friends (unschoolers, BTW!) who make a living with their art. The
father was handicapped as a child (one leg is shorter than the other, tons of
operations, etc.) As a child and young adult he had to wear those ugly clunky
orthopedic shoes and hated them. This was in the 60's so he decided to design
his own cool/funky looking shoes...well, it turned into a business. They now
completely support their family with handmade, hand painted leather shoes.
Here's their website if you want to take a peek: www.thoseshoes.com

They sell at a few big craft houses (Tamarack) and spend the summer going to
shows and selling. They have 2 very, VERY talented daughters (their artwork
is unbelievable) who have been unschooling since they moved to WV about 6 or 7
years ago.

Nancy


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