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Winter is an odd season at Off Center Ceramics.
To begin with, there's the huge adrenaline crash at the end of Holiday Market. We're open until 4 pm Christmas Eve, then have to to load out the pots, go home, celebrate the holiday, and come back on the 26th to pack up the booth and shelves.
After all that, I just want to laze. Sleep late. Read books. Eat cookies.
Slowly, we creep back toward responsibility. Pack up and ship presents for family in the midwest. Take an end-of-year inventory. Close up the 2014 ledger, and start a new one for 2015. Time moves differently, with no art show on the weekend. Weeks blur together.
Eventually, I head back to the studio. I have special orders promised for January, and the start of restocking for spring. A wholesale order comes in, unexpected but welcome. My throwing list gets longer.
Meetings interrupt: Clay Fest, Ceramic Showcase. Followed by a post-meeting cold that lays me out for several days. Other delays follow: a kiln sitter failure that ruins a load of bisque. I have to get back on the wheel and replace the over-fired pots; I push my firing off into February. Meanwhile, summer art show deadlines loom; the first one is in mid-January, so I take a break from pots to send in my application. Fortunately, everything is on-line now, so I don't have to mail actual slides, check, SASE.
What I'm saying is, it's hard to get organized, stay on track, get things done. I'd still rather sleep in and catch up with my reading. Go ride my bike on the rare sunny afternoon. But there's pots to glaze, office work to do. Website to update.
Hope you're having a restful winter. I should be back together by spring, at Saturday Market.
To begin with, there's the huge adrenaline crash at the end of Holiday Market. We're open until 4 pm Christmas Eve, then have to to load out the pots, go home, celebrate the holiday, and come back on the 26th to pack up the booth and shelves.
After all that, I just want to laze. Sleep late. Read books. Eat cookies.
Slowly, we creep back toward responsibility. Pack up and ship presents for family in the midwest. Take an end-of-year inventory. Close up the 2014 ledger, and start a new one for 2015. Time moves differently, with no art show on the weekend. Weeks blur together.
Eventually, I head back to the studio. I have special orders promised for January, and the start of restocking for spring. A wholesale order comes in, unexpected but welcome. My throwing list gets longer.
Meetings interrupt: Clay Fest, Ceramic Showcase. Followed by a post-meeting cold that lays me out for several days. Other delays follow: a kiln sitter failure that ruins a load of bisque. I have to get back on the wheel and replace the over-fired pots; I push my firing off into February. Meanwhile, summer art show deadlines loom; the first one is in mid-January, so I take a break from pots to send in my application. Fortunately, everything is on-line now, so I don't have to mail actual slides, check, SASE.
What I'm saying is, it's hard to get organized, stay on track, get things done. I'd still rather sleep in and catch up with my reading. Go ride my bike on the rare sunny afternoon. But there's pots to glaze, office work to do. Website to update.
Hope you're having a restful winter. I should be back together by spring, at Saturday Market.