Well here we go, another week, more pots in the works. We shipped two orders out first thing this morning. Another 150 pounds of pottery outbound on Greyhound! Anyone looking to ship something like pottery sure can’t go wrong with Greyhound. We’ve been shipping all our large shipments this way for years now and have nothing to complain about. Shipments go where they are supposed to go, they arrive on time, and they arrive in excellent shape. In three years I think we’ve had about three broken pots and I blame my packing more so than mishandling. Another plus is you can ship up to five boxes on one waybill. Handy! Cindy was throwing off and on all dayin between phone calls and other interruptions. Fifty or so mugs then 8 large platters for chip and dips. I waxed the bisque pots we took out of the kiln Friday. More mugs! We’ve been saying it looks like a mug selling Summer and so far we’re right. Another order phoned in this afternoon for mugs. The Mike mug is really popular and our new Centennial glaze looks like a winner too. Biggest problem with mugs is there is no money in them. Everyone is so used to paying around $18 to $20 for them that the price is pretty well stuck there. Has been that way for years. Everything else has gone up but mugs are stuck. Since wholesale gives us half that we have to make a lot of mugs in a short time to make any profit at the end of the day. We once said we weren’t going to do mugs. In the last six weeks we’ve made over 500! Oh well….Tomorrow is another day. Cindy hopes to finish throwing most of the orders on the books tomorrow. We are getting our first order ready for the Alberta Craft Council Gallery Shop…excited about that!
Our blog is brand new June 13th, 2005 so if you don’t see much information here yet that’s why.Feel free to comment on the web site , our pots, the weather in your part of the world, whatever! Our plan right now is to give a little synopsis at the end of the day of how the studio work went and any other things we might want to add. We’ll see how it works out. Glad you could join us!
Jim