You Just Never Know...
One of the things I love most about selling online via Etsy or my blog is finding out "who" is buying my item. Often times it is someone random who happens upon my item by chance, other times it is someone who reads and follows my blog and once in a while it is someone who buys my item for a photo shoot or their store or something else kind of cool. Recently I sold one of my custom crafted oyster shell lamps to a customer in Manhattan Beach, California. Turns out he is a well known third generation, Southern California restauranteur who purchased it for his newest restaurant, Fishing with Dynamite. Since I was going to Southern California to help our son pack for his summer internship in NYC, I had the opportunity to deliver the lamp in person as Manhattan Beach is fairly close to UCLA. It wasn't until I returned home and goggled Mike Simms, that I discovered he was part of a long and storied famil...