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offcntrUnloaded the kiln Friday afternoon, but only got a few new items in the van. Looking for a theme on a sunny but blustery morning, I decided to post with the life aquatic: shark, sea turtle, whale. Should have posted my last orca stew mug, before somebody bought it. Can't have everything.
Unlike last Saturday, yesterday was busy from the very start: sold a stick butter dish right at 10 am, to a fellow whose cats had broken the previous two. I suspect at that point, I'd have purchased plastic, but he was confident he could keep them away from this one.
Had a couple of special orders pick up early: the white cat teapot, and the ghost snake guy. Finally got a reason for all the ghost imagery (the original order had a ghost cat, ghost snake, ghost squid, and a ghost ghost crab). He and his brothers had done a bicycle and brewery tour of Belgium the previous year, and their favorite was a brewpub called Fantôme, meaning "ghost." Glad to have that cleared up.
Met a delightful couple, he from Bristol in England, she Tucson. They met online, fell in love, and were visiting Oregon to see her Nana in Albany before she moved across the pond to get married. Traded cat pictures for a while, and they bought four cat food dishes and two dessert plates to pack in their luggage. They're talking about ordering more to ship; I warned them it wouldn't be cheap, but they say my pots are worth it.
Also bound for foreign parts: an incense dragon, going to India, along with a rather nice bronze frog from neighboring booth metalsmith Ed. Look at me, internationally famous.
New favorite t-shirt for the day: I Love Someone Who is Autistic (It's Me).
Had a nice talk with a UO grad student who was examining all my squirrel and bunny patterns. Turns out she'd a small mammal paleontologist specializing in rodents. Is it too late to choose a new career? 'Cause that sounds fascinating.
Sales were steady all day, turned the first page of the sale book at 11:30, the second at 1:55. Had almost filled the third page around 3:45 and things had finally quieted down, so I filled out my envelope and wrote my check, to drop off at the Info Booth before we closed at 4--and immediately had three more sales, another $116. So I wrote a second check with my 10%, tucked it in the envelope. And had two more sales after 4, while I was packing up. I'll have to add them to next week's total.
I mentioned last week I'd done a more than respectable $600 and change? I doubled it this weekend. Yikes!
Unlike last Saturday, yesterday was busy from the very start: sold a stick butter dish right at 10 am, to a fellow whose cats had broken the previous two. I suspect at that point, I'd have purchased plastic, but he was confident he could keep them away from this one.
Had a couple of special orders pick up early: the white cat teapot, and the ghost snake guy. Finally got a reason for all the ghost imagery (the original order had a ghost cat, ghost snake, ghost squid, and a ghost ghost crab). He and his brothers had done a bicycle and brewery tour of Belgium the previous year, and their favorite was a brewpub called Fantôme, meaning "ghost." Glad to have that cleared up.
Met a delightful couple, he from Bristol in England, she Tucson. They met online, fell in love, and were visiting Oregon to see her Nana in Albany before she moved across the pond to get married. Traded cat pictures for a while, and they bought four cat food dishes and two dessert plates to pack in their luggage. They're talking about ordering more to ship; I warned them it wouldn't be cheap, but they say my pots are worth it.
Also bound for foreign parts: an incense dragon, going to India, along with a rather nice bronze frog from neighboring booth metalsmith Ed. Look at me, internationally famous.
New favorite t-shirt for the day: I Love Someone Who is Autistic (It's Me).
Had a nice talk with a UO grad student who was examining all my squirrel and bunny patterns. Turns out she'd a small mammal paleontologist specializing in rodents. Is it too late to choose a new career? 'Cause that sounds fascinating.
Sales were steady all day, turned the first page of the sale book at 11:30, the second at 1:55. Had almost filled the third page around 3:45 and things had finally quieted down, so I filled out my envelope and wrote my check, to drop off at the Info Booth before we closed at 4--and immediately had three more sales, another $116. So I wrote a second check with my 10%, tucked it in the envelope. And had two more sales after 4, while I was packing up. I'll have to add them to next week's total.
I mentioned last week I'd done a more than respectable $600 and change? I doubled it this weekend. Yikes!