Well, you probably noticed that we haven’t been blogging as much as we had been in recent months.  That’s because we were humping it behind the scenes working on FolkFest, DaFrogWorks and lots of over top-secret stuff….like our new T.  Yes the Beau-meister has really outdone himself this time with a logo that every kid, [...]

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The opening of Folk Fest hit me with a wonderful and great surprise that you illustrators will find great pleasure in.  We’ve kept this under the raps for a while put now it time to let you know about just one more of those top secret projects that we’ve been working on in the trenches.  [...]

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The 2010 edition of Folk Fest was the very fest festival for Beau Smith Frogs under the banner of FrogShway. We put a great deal of a push into getting ready for this show. Being that this was our very first, we can look back now and say…wow that was a lot of [...]

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Others and the The Importance of a Visit

by A-Frog August 17, 2010

For almost ten years I served as a Sunday school teacher at a large church teaching singles and young adults from ages 20 something to mid forties and up. I’d read the Bible and taught many lessons but this lesson hit me like a load of bricks. It the book of James it [...]

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The Shway is here to Stay…FolkFest 2010

by A-Frog August 13, 2010

We are grateful to our many faithful Shway’ers in the thoughts encouragements and dog outfits we have been seeing lately. There’s no question that the Folk Fest is the LARGEST thing we do every year and this week has been lots of long hours of pounding and creating objects of inspiration and desire. [...]

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T-10 and the DT1000 Insect Eliminator

by A-Frog August 10, 2010

T-10 Days till the Folk Fest at the North Atlanta Trade center and what are we doing in the studio…Well thanks to the great engineering insight of Niki Portmann we are now on our way to being free of those infectious blood sucking insects that Bats are so fond of. Thanks to Niki and the [...]

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Why Budda?

by A-Frog July 18, 2010

A friend of mine inquired about my interest in Taoist Budda a while back and I’ve got to admit, until the last few weeks, Budda was never on my Radar.  I believe it was God above that causes a convergence of things to lead me into a group with a Taoist Budda ethos with the [...]

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The Limits of Who You Are

by A-Frog June 8, 2010

I’ll never forget the days that I served under ‘Mate’ in the Hurricane season of 2004, one of the worst hurricane seasons recorded in history.  I volunteered for the assignment, because I knew it was dangerous and would help my career.  Mate was the best there was out there at running a ‘box.’  By box [...]

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The Fraud of Faux or the Power of One

by A-Frog June 7, 2010

I must say and much as desire to move forward in courage, there are times when fear of the unknown and not producing an acceptable result tend to hold me back. I don’t know if I’ve come to feel that no matter what, I’ll miss the mark, I’m too lazy to do the hard [...]

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Ot Schoolin’

by BeauFrog June 5, 2010

How did I get into art school? What was that all about? Nobody ever asks me such questions. But my friend, Allen, wanted me to blog about it. So here goes.
I grew up in a family of artists. My grandmother on my father’s side was a professional watercolorist. My dad, like me, is a metal [...]

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