Day one of the show is history and it was good. We think the traffic is down a bit from Sundays past but we did get some new clients and saw a lot of old ones coming to reorder. Very few potters at the show this time. We are not sure why. One of our neighbours from down the aisle had a fire this Spring which wiped out everything. We just learned about it today. She did candles as well as pottery, not sure of the cause of the fire. We were sorry to hear that because she was trying hard to build a business. We’ll be checking to see how she is making out.
Our corner booth set up nice and looks great if we do say so ourselves.
The south wall features pieces in our new glazes:
The West wall features our more established glazes:
And the big pieces have their own display:
While the tower has a running display of our DVD , our "Mountain Sized" teapot, and some flashy Mountain Mist with Rose pieces.
Here is the amazing part of this story. All these pots were boxes of clay on July 26th. Everything we have on display (plus two more totes in the back of the van which we didn’t have room for) has been made in the past three weeks. We think we did good!
The new glazes are proving popular. They are very different from anything else being offered by potters in this area. Cindy was approached by another potter today who said ,"Oh, I can’t do those colours, I’m cone six oxidation." She was surprised when Cindy told her so are we.
We are hoping since Sunday was slow Monday will pick up some. We’ll just have to wait and see. 8 am to 6 pm today…."Banker’s hours"!
nite
September 9th, 2005 at 8:48 pm Jim, just wanted to read your blog. I’m LaVonda’s sister. Sure like your pottery photos