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Seems like I find stories about this all the time: a husband and wife pair who got into stained glass as a hobby, and now run a shop full time, several decades later. This story comes from the Marion Chronicle Tribune, out of Grant County, Indiana.

Over the past 25 years, Jackie and Ed Smith have managed to turn their glass hobby into a profession (even though they're technically retired), with a shop called Riverine Studios.

"This is retired," Jackie says, "because we're doing what we love to do and we're doing it on our own time. We always wanted a place where we had lots of room and could do larger pieces."

Five years ago, the couple moved from a room in their Marion home into a 4,000-square-foot building, which has been on its perch near the Mississinewa River since the late 1940s, Jackie says.

[...] They started out with one worktable in the center of an empty room. But now the two complete each other's sentences as they show projects-in-progress laid out on several worktables and a drafting table.

Should be an inspiring story for anyone who is struggling to make it on their own doing stained glass professionally.