Once upon a show
Oct. 29th, 2023 11:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
offcntrIt's been two weeks since Clay Fest; I can barely remember the show at this point.
Sales were good, down ever-so-slightly from last year, maybe $200? Saw lots of familiar faces, talked shop with a bunch of junior potters, did a brushmaking demo. Traded a paintbrush for a really lovely painted plate from another potter.
Didn't see the eclipse. Overcast and fogbound on River Road, less foggy but still cloud-ridden at the fairgrounds. Guess that 99¢ for glasses was wasted.
Got to see Michael Fromme making her delightful small animal sculptures; drew a couple of them for my Inktober book.
Heck, let's just look at pictures, shall we?
It was nice having Demo and Kid's Clay back again, after last year's Covid restrictions. We also had centralized checkout back, with a new twist: each potter got a unique barcode printed on labels, that they then added price and stickered the pot. It was kind of a pain having to re-price everything, but made checkout run amazingly smoothly. Looks like Clayfolk may adopt the system next year, and collaborate on barcodes so we can use the same stickers from show to show.
Sales were good, down ever-so-slightly from last year, maybe $200? Saw lots of familiar faces, talked shop with a bunch of junior potters, did a brushmaking demo. Traded a paintbrush for a really lovely painted plate from another potter.
Didn't see the eclipse. Overcast and fogbound on River Road, less foggy but still cloud-ridden at the fairgrounds. Guess that 99¢ for glasses was wasted.
Got to see Michael Fromme making her delightful small animal sculptures; drew a couple of them for my Inktober book.
Heck, let's just look at pictures, shall we?
It was nice having Demo and Kid's Clay back again, after last year's Covid restrictions. We also had centralized checkout back, with a new twist: each potter got a unique barcode printed on labels, that they then added price and stickered the pot. It was kind of a pain having to re-price everything, but made checkout run amazingly smoothly. Looks like Clayfolk may adopt the system next year, and collaborate on barcodes so we can use the same stickers from show to show.