Party season is upon us and this year I vow to be more prepared. In an attempt to avoid the almost obligatory holiday anxiety, I've created a checklist to
Bill Gass, a Royal Navy veteran who served in Prince Philip s flotilla in the Second World War, and his wife Annie had no inkling they were victims of what a judge branded a dreadful offence .
is made entirely of recycled glass. we don t make just the pieces we have been making 30 years ago. we make really killer new mod pieces, we make pieces inspired by nature. annie s daughter ava who manages the company s store say there s dinner ware people can buy for themselves or things like cheeseboards to give as a gift. my generation we are used to seeing fine china and older pieces we may not identify with. annie glass has something to identify with. a new tag line, sustainbly hand crafted in california speaks to the 90% of the work done by hand. and annie introduced a new logo. the fact that these are handmade completely here in california, not parts coming from other places and just assembled here. you know, all of those things, we were not telling that story. getting a team to accept any change is a challenge. and in this case, not everyone wanted to be a part of the evolution. actually, we lost an employee
she said, you know, oh, my mom loves your work, loves your stuff. and the gracious person that annie is said thank you. nathan honestly thought he was paying business owner annie morehouser a compliment. i was excited to meet annie of annie glass, right? and by no means did i realize what i had said. in the back of her head, apparently, she was thinking than just thank you very much. i was like, oh. oh. and then quickly covered up it with thank you, thank you, i m so glad to hear that. little did nathan know that he had just tapped into one of annie s worst fears about her watsonville, california, business that she started in 1983. and then i heard it a couple more times. i thought, ooh, oh, i need to work on that. over and over again, the refrain was the same.