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Welcome To My Studio

 by DS Matteau

Hello... I'm one of those people who is "jack-of-all-trades" but over the years I have been involved mainly with words and pictures. The Teapot Co-op is a labor of love that has been through several incarnations and that I intend to work on until I'm 65, when I hope to see it stand on its own.
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It is a support group, a neighborhood, a kaffe-klatch, and a business incubator. It is whatever the members make of it. We pool our subscriptions to pay for our services and share the resources. We help each other with our skills and give each other a hand up or a handshake or a pat on the back.

I designed this website and customized the community site that goes with it. I don't host sites anymore or do full designs but I do some work for our members if they need it. If you want some work done, just subscribe in the Co-op and contact me. I write HTML and CSS programming and can customize PHP boards. The modest subscription rate in the Co-op covers work done on a first-come, first-served basis. Rush orders are subject to negotiation.

Co-op members are not limited to using my services, since the subscription includes other benefits and some people already have their own design plans. Other benefits of the Co-op include listing in our store and participating in our media ad campaigns when they want.



I'm an artist and writer, presently working on my first novel, which is up to chapter 27 right now, April 2, 2009. I have 30 chapters in the outline. When it is done, you'll hopefully see an Amazon bookstore link to it in this page! It's loosely based on some blizzards I lived through and now that I live in hot, sunny Texas, I enjoy writing stories with winter scenes.

 

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I also enjoy growing orchids and painting watercolors of them. That picture of me on the porch was taken in 2006 when I lived near Houston and had a veritable jungle in my yard. Now I live in the drier climate of Austin and I have to nurse them along a little more carefully, but they are still my babies! (I swap water colors for orchids. Click the orchid picture here to see my orchid blog.) Oh, if you are wondering about the difference between me on the porch and the picture of me in the boat that I use in the community pages, the difference is about 25 years.

I collect and sell WWII era teapots and figurines. I have a few of them in the Co-op's Ruby Lane store (see the images in upper right column?) and if you want to see which items are from my collection, just search on "DSM*" and all my items will be pulled from the general collection. (Don't forget to put the asterisk after the capital initials, "DSM").



Our Co-op Building Fund


Our dream is to open a full storefront in every area where we have enough members so that the local members can run a consignment shop & meeting place. This subscription button will pull $25 a month from your Paypal for 12 months to put into our building fund account and will give you privileged membership.
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all elements, site design, & contents (c)2006,2007,2008 D.S. Matteau, animated teapot (c)Lindsey Fry, exclusive of banners and widgets. | button elements by Boogie Jack | Page last updated: March 22, 2009