It all looks beautiful. Quite a lot of variety.
It all looks beautiful. Quite a lot of variety.
Wow, that's impressive! Here's hoping that all of your pieces find new people to love and admire them. Best of luck on the sale!
I hope you come away with no leftover pieces!!!
Update: We did pretty well, and it was fairly enjoyable. We netted a little over $300. Most of our stuff was $5 - $10, with a few items priced at $20, so we must have sold quite a few items. Then why do we still have so much pottery?? lol.
We made a good connection with a very nice woman who is interested in having us participate in a local craft fair next September. She was selling crocheted items and did not even make her $25 table fee in sales, so I felt bad about that. I gifted her an ornament she had been eyeing. I gifted another piece to a little girl who bought a bowl for her mother for xmas. There was another woman who wanted 2 bowls for a total of $20, but she didn't have enough cash on hand, so I gave them to her for the $14 she did have. Who goes to a church craft fair expecting to use a credit card?
I think we are learning some useful lessons about what we like to make vs. what people will buy and when. It will be an interesting balancing act, because we are doing the pottery thing for fun, and the selling is definitely secondary. I would never want to focus exclusively on making things with an eye to selling rather than the fun of making and learning. On the other hand, we do not want to fill our little house up to the ceiling with pottery, and the money is certainly helpful. The cost of classes is about $4000 per year for the two of us, and one of us likes to buy extra tools and glazes and such (looks in the mirror sheepishly), so offsetting a little bit of that cost is a good thing.
I could envision us doing 2 -3 local fairs a year with a few mainstay easy-to-make items that will be likely to sell. We will still be building our skills with those items because practice and repetition are key. We can still focus most of our efforts on making things that are more for our own enjoyment, but try to keep the quantity down, knowing those things might be less likely to sell so either will be have to be kept or gifted. I also don't want to inflict a lot of pottery on innocent friends and bystanders either - "look out, here come Rosa and she's bearing more pottery!"
I think you just need a website, Rosa. I would buy some of those blue mugs--I need them for some blue dishes I have!
And I think more than one of us would purchase trees and mushrooms, lol. Maybe SLF needs a "buy me" forum?!
I like rosa’s little mushrooms, they’re very cute. I’m always attracted to mushrooms.
But Rosa doing mail order means she has to get into the whole shipping business and digital monies collection. I doubt she wants to do that.
Rose, I think the fact that you made $300 at a little church sale is really really great! A $25 table is a low entry point for a sales table.
I’m afraid next year I have to figure out a “low entry sales point” for iris rhizomes coming out of my garden, not because I need money, but because my small local iris society needs community engagement. I had a trial run last year where I dug, marked, bagged and listed iris to give to a friend who was planning a big iris garden. I would only have to add to that process pictures printed by Walgreens and a simple display method. I may try a local farmers market or two. I am so NOT looking forward to this.
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I think if I were in Rosa's shoes, I would actually enjoy doing a little shipping business, because then she could keep the inventory in the house low.
But she may feel as you do!
That's wonderful, rosa! I in the "it went well" corner! Congrats.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer." Mahatma Gandhi
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during Covid, I sold many books and little bit of jewelry on Ebay, things easy to ship. Personally, I wouldn’t want to deal with breakables.Originally Posted by Tybee
when I order any piece of pottery, I hold my breath until it gets here safely. Last year I splurged on two expensive pieces this time of year, but I told the potter to hold the pieces until the Christmas shipping crunch was over.
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