vendor bio - the robin’s nest
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I was recently introduced as the ideas. I love taking pictures that
front runner of The Robin’s Nest. tell a story. I love this business!!
If you have not met me, my name is I am always open to constructive
Rachel O’Crowley and I am the oldest criticism (with a smile), and new ideas.
daughter of “The Robin” of The Robin’s Nest. I am a great listener, and a really, really
She is going to be on hiatus for a couple of years, on a great worker. I have learned that scrapbookers and
humanitarian mission in Ethiopia, for her church. their store owners are wonderfully generous souls! Everyone
gives. There are so many crop nights for a cause. Crop-for-
I am usually a pretty private person, so all this attention has a-cure, crop-for-warm-children, crop-to-stamp-out-hunger,
made me a little uncomfortable, but thankfully, has made me crop, crop, crop-for-a-good-cause. It is such a grand idea that
a better person. My first experience meeting store owners everyone can come together and create to help others. This
without my parental guidance turned out to be a wonderful industry is so full of love, and I am thankful to be a part of it.
one. My stomach had twists and knots, and a few rope burns To all of the store owners, you are doing a great job. To all of
combined with fluttering butterflies, and adding slight hunger, the reps, you represent everyone so wonderfully. And to all of
led me into a small room of store owners who were there to the scrapbookers, you are the glue that brings us all together,
learn how to make a growth chart. Actually, I wasn’t even and for that I thank you. Keep
teaching the class, my sister-in-law was, but I was still super up the inspirational
nervous. It didn’t take long to know all of the mistakes I was creations!
about to make: the growth chart was supposed to be for
boys, and I made girl packets. Great, maybe no one will
notice. Wrong. A store owner actually got up, let me
know what she thought, and unassigned herself from
my class.
Okay, moving on, I cut papers too large, didn’t think
of how people were going to get their finished product
home on the plane, didn’t bring enough glue, didn’t
bring one of the essential ingredients of the project,
and accidentally left my nerves back in the hotel
room. What I learned: be a little better prepared, make
everything in pre-made packets, don’t mix up genders,
and make a smaller, yet uniquely awesome, project. Oh
yeah, and bring my magical anti-anxiety potion with me.
oW w, all of this was the first night, but I made it through. I
think it was okay to trip over me (quite a bit). And people
were very pleasantly polite. Hopefully not because I look
like my mom, but because I love this industry. I love new
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