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Octoberfication
Oct. 2nd, 2019 09:08 pm1. If one has a reserved booth at the Saturday Market, there are certain benefits. You're guaranteed a space every week, and it's the same one, so customers can always find you. Because you don't have to wait for a space in the lottery, you can set up whenever you want, as long as you check in by 8:30. We usually start a little after 7, a holdover from my morning radio days, and are finished before Farmer's Market opens at 9.
There are some restrictions, however. You have to keep up on your payments. You have to sell a minimum of 12 times over the course of the season, including one Saturday every month, although if you're current on all your requirements, you can skip one month as a "vacation month."
This Saturday, October 5, will be our last Saturday outdoors at the Park Blocks for 2019; it fulfills our monthly requirement, and November is our vacation month, if you define vacation as "Working in the studio, frantically making stock for the Holidays." You can still find us the following weekend, at Clay Fest, but after that, it's production time!
2. Elsewhere on the internets, there's something called "Inktober." It's the visual artist's equivalent of NaNoRiMo, the National Novel Writing Month. Artists challenge themselves to do a new drawing every day for the month. It's good practice, and I, who mostly draw only on pots these days, thought it'd be a fun thing to try. I have a nice little pocket-sized sketchbook I got in an exchange at our book arts group, just the right size for quick little pen drawings. I'll scan and post them, probably once a week or so, unless I totally fail to keep up, in which case, you never read this, right?
3. Monday, October 7 is my 60th birthday. Year of the Boar, represent!
There are some restrictions, however. You have to keep up on your payments. You have to sell a minimum of 12 times over the course of the season, including one Saturday every month, although if you're current on all your requirements, you can skip one month as a "vacation month."
This Saturday, October 5, will be our last Saturday outdoors at the Park Blocks for 2019; it fulfills our monthly requirement, and November is our vacation month, if you define vacation as "Working in the studio, frantically making stock for the Holidays." You can still find us the following weekend, at Clay Fest, but after that, it's production time!
2. Elsewhere on the internets, there's something called "Inktober." It's the visual artist's equivalent of NaNoRiMo, the National Novel Writing Month. Artists challenge themselves to do a new drawing every day for the month. It's good practice, and I, who mostly draw only on pots these days, thought it'd be a fun thing to try. I have a nice little pocket-sized sketchbook I got in an exchange at our book arts group, just the right size for quick little pen drawings. I'll scan and post them, probably once a week or so, unless I totally fail to keep up, in which case, you never read this, right?
3. Monday, October 7 is my 60th birthday. Year of the Boar, represent!