Everything is out of the kiln!!:
I'm a hap, hap, happy girl! Pepe and I sanded, priced and packed for 3 hours today and consequently everything is ready for the Albuquerque and NCECA Shows. I even got a special order all packed and ready to ship. We rock! The studio looks so bare, just a bunch of boxes and plastic bins... Tomorrow I will load display stuff into the Tacoma ; tables, coverings, cash station, curtains, tent, bags, paper, etc... Everything one would need to set up a mini-store for 3 days.
Also had the semi-annual Contemporary Clay Fair jury last night for a couple of hours.. 31 spots with 35 applicants. Not too bad, in the fall we had to jury out 15 potters, and of course we knew most of them so it was hard to say no to your friends! So, two potters didn't make it and two are on the waiting list. It was good to take all the application fees to the bank today so we could pay for the venue rental, buy some ads, and print some postcards. It's always interesting to be on both sides; to participate in the show but also to produce it. A somewhat different skill set....It is shocking to realize just for our little show it costs us 6K to put it on!! Thank god we have a wonderful group of 7 potters willing to take this on 2x/year and look after the endless amount of small detail it takes to successfully do this...
.Just enough time to recover from the current show and start over again making inventory for this one!! I hope Pepe the studio assistant/ceramic intern isn't planning on graduating anytime soon, I need him!
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