This is one of the things I get asked most about. Lets start, No I didn't meet Oprah. Nor did I send her any of my work. I had an agent, who for a couple of years took my stuff to the big Gift Trade Shows out east. In New York some of Oprah's personal shoppers saw my ornaments at the booth and liked them. Bought some and took them to show Oprah. She liked them and put them in her magazine. I new nothing of this until about a week before the magazine came out. It was great. It was amazing. It was an incredible year. I made little else for the next year. My income, (for that one year only) more than doubled. We were able to buy a new washer, a new to us car, and a new refrigerator. Paid a bit off the mortgage. That's it, that's all. the next year I was no longer the 'new thing' and sales went back to their old, well actually slightly worse than their old levels. I had lost some clients that I couldn't supply with other work while I was making pears. I'm not complaining. Variety is good. But it was amazing while it lasted.