M.E. Monday

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Mary Engelbreit Handpainted Glassware

About a million years ago, when I was a manufacturer's rep in the gift/stationery industry, I would travel to Atlanta at least twice a year to attend Gift Shows at the Atlanta Merchandise Mart. Back in the day it was always fun but extremely tiring. Lots of walking and standing and then everyone went out to socialize in the evenings after a long day.  Back in those same days, there was a Mary Engelbreit company store in Alpharetta, GA which is somewhat close to Atlanta. It was probably the closet I was ever going to come to a Mary Engelbreit store. I remember one year when I had gone up for the gift show in July, I went to Dollar Rental Car to rent a car to drive to Alpharetta. At that time you could rent a car by the hour which was much less costly than taking a cab out to where the store was located. This was way before GPS days, I'd never driven in Atlanta before, and they have horrible Interstate traffic there. But I mapped out my journey, made my way to the ME Store and made it back to the Merchandise Mart all within a couple of hours. The glass that is pictured above is one of the things that I bought while in the store. They had a number of handpainted items that I think were unique to the stores at the time. It's my favorite glass, I use it all of the time and I think that it has held up pretty well over the many years since I purchased it. I have some photos that I took from outside the store but back then they didn't have digital cameras so I'm not able to share them here. I don't remember a lot about the trip by I do know that my Misson was achieved. I had been to a Mary Englebreit store!
 

Bead Tins

The little coffee tins covered with ME Con-tact paper pictured above where given to me this week. I'm on a Misson to find some of this Con-tact paper so if anyone sees it anywhere I will be eternally grateful to you if you would let me know.  They look ever so cute sitting on my work table and will help keep my beads and stuff organized. Plus....they were FREE and we like free.