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ravena_kade) wrote2025-12-07 10:18 am
ravena_kade) wrote2025-12-07 10:18 amlast time for this show.
The craft show started out on the wrong foot. The friend who I would do this one with is the music director for a church and I know that she has to leave by 3:15 to make it to Saturday services so I pack up for her. Usually she sells out of small Christmas trees so the packing is light and I dont mind.. Friday she calls me and says that she has a funeral to play at on Friday. It meant that she would pick me up...drop me at the door and I set up everything on my own and I was by myself until noon and then packed up everything at close.
The show itself was more of a crap show. Lots of junk. I only sold 1 piece at $12.00. The table cost for me was $20, plus a donation of an item that was worth $20 . I had a $28 loss with the loss of the time I put into painting all week. My friend only sold 1 $22 tree.
The time lost is the hard part. The good part is that I was out and showing what I do...and that is really the important part. Another negative was there was no heat on in the building. I froze. I thought about calling Dad to bring me a space heater, but I dont like to use them on extension cords.
I also spoke to a beginner potter. She was a Mom of one of the Students who went to the Catholic School. I bought an olive oil bottle from her. We chatted for a while. I told her that I had a kiln at home and she wanted to know about it. I told her that basically the kiln is like a giant toaster that can go up to thousands of degrees. Don't be afraid of them...and don't do Raku in the house (you open a red hot kiln and set your pieces deliberately on fire).
Oh and the show had an excellent bake table so I bought a small spice cake.
This was my last event for the season. It is now time to hibernate ;-)
The show itself was more of a crap show. Lots of junk. I only sold 1 piece at $12.00. The table cost for me was $20, plus a donation of an item that was worth $20 . I had a $28 loss with the loss of the time I put into painting all week. My friend only sold 1 $22 tree.
The time lost is the hard part. The good part is that I was out and showing what I do...and that is really the important part. Another negative was there was no heat on in the building. I froze. I thought about calling Dad to bring me a space heater, but I dont like to use them on extension cords.
I also spoke to a beginner potter. She was a Mom of one of the Students who went to the Catholic School. I bought an olive oil bottle from her. We chatted for a while. I told her that I had a kiln at home and she wanted to know about it. I told her that basically the kiln is like a giant toaster that can go up to thousands of degrees. Don't be afraid of them...and don't do Raku in the house (you open a red hot kiln and set your pieces deliberately on fire).
Oh and the show had an excellent bake table so I bought a small spice cake.
This was my last event for the season. It is now time to hibernate ;-)
fbhjr (fbhjr) wrote2025-12-06 07:03 pm
fbhjr) wrote2025-12-06 07:03 pmEntry tags:
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ravena_kade (ravena_kade) wrote2025-12-06 08:06 am
ravena_kade) wrote2025-12-06 08:06 am(no subject)
I need some luck today. I have a craft show today and my head isn't in that space.
Smile and fake it. Hoping the table next to me has some fun chatty people.
Smile and fake it. Hoping the table next to me has some fun chatty people.
ravena_kade (ravena_kade) wrote2025-11-30 08:07 pm
ravena_kade) wrote2025-11-30 08:07 pm(no subject)
The holiday was pretty standard. Small child refused food after his medication and she and his parents screamed all through dinner.
Stroke cousin kept changing her mind about scheduling and did not care how it would affect the sister who needed to get her to appointments. Sisters yelled. Stroke cousin broke another chair and had toileting issues.
Dinner was actually good. Dad and I ate in the dinning room with stroke cousin. Just the 3 of us. It was quiet in there.
Stroke cousin was supposed stay over. Her sisters set up the Mother's bedroom for her and had the Mom in Cancer cousin's room. Stroke cousin didn't tell the sisters that she scheduled a physical therapy appointment for 8 AM Friday. She demanded that someone take her home after dinner. Home is over an hour away. I volunteered to take the ride and help stroke cousin into her house because I really thought the driving cousin was going to kill her sister.
Stroke cousin had a very messy accident in the car. Once at the apartment I helped her in with her stuff and helped lead cousin clean the car. As we headed home driving cousin started to cry. I made her pull over and let her cry. She is very frustrated. I get it, but they need to handle things differently. Screaming isn't help any of them.
Saturday I went to a high end craft show in Boston. It was really nice. I get a lot of inspiration from craft shows. There was a jewelry booth there that did a lot with stones, just like I do. Of course I compared my work to theirs. They had a lot of the exact same components that I use. Because they do high end shows they are asking $300 for a necklace very similar to one one mine and I am only asking $50. It is proof I need to find my true market.
The rest of the weekend I spent trying to get stuff done for the craft show I have next Saturday. That will be my last holiday event
Stroke cousin kept changing her mind about scheduling and did not care how it would affect the sister who needed to get her to appointments. Sisters yelled. Stroke cousin broke another chair and had toileting issues.
Dinner was actually good. Dad and I ate in the dinning room with stroke cousin. Just the 3 of us. It was quiet in there.
Stroke cousin was supposed stay over. Her sisters set up the Mother's bedroom for her and had the Mom in Cancer cousin's room. Stroke cousin didn't tell the sisters that she scheduled a physical therapy appointment for 8 AM Friday. She demanded that someone take her home after dinner. Home is over an hour away. I volunteered to take the ride and help stroke cousin into her house because I really thought the driving cousin was going to kill her sister.
Stroke cousin had a very messy accident in the car. Once at the apartment I helped her in with her stuff and helped lead cousin clean the car. As we headed home driving cousin started to cry. I made her pull over and let her cry. She is very frustrated. I get it, but they need to handle things differently. Screaming isn't help any of them.
Saturday I went to a high end craft show in Boston. It was really nice. I get a lot of inspiration from craft shows. There was a jewelry booth there that did a lot with stones, just like I do. Of course I compared my work to theirs. They had a lot of the exact same components that I use. Because they do high end shows they are asking $300 for a necklace very similar to one one mine and I am only asking $50. It is proof I need to find my true market.
The rest of the weekend I spent trying to get stuff done for the craft show I have next Saturday. That will be my last holiday event
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karzilla reminded me about the existence of linear time again. Wait, no -- well, yes, but also -- okay, look, let me back up and start again: it's almost December, and that means it's time for our annual December holiday points bonus.The standard explanation: For the entire month of December, all orders made in the Shop of points and paid time, either for you or as a gift for a friend, will have 10% of your completed cart total sent to you in points when you finish the transaction. For instance, if you buy an order of 12 months of paid time for $35 (350 points), you'll get 35 points when the order is complete, to use on a future purchase.
( The fine print and much more behind this cut! )
Thank you, in short, for being the best possible users any social media site could possibly ever hope for. I'm probably in danger of crossing the Sappiness Line if I haven't already, but you all make everything worth it.
On behalf of Mark, Jen, Robby, and our team of awesome volunteers, and to each and every one of you, whether you've been with us on this wild ride since the beginning or just signed up last week, I'm wishing you all a very happy set of end-of-year holidays, whichever ones you celebrate, and hoping for all of you that your 2026 is full of kindness, determination, empathy, and a hell of a lot more luck than we've all had lately. Let's go.