[Qotw: Participants Question Pool For Future Qotw's]

Do you find sales better at small shows( <50 booths) or large shows(>200 booths) or somewhere in the middle?

 

What is the worst booth neighbor to have... 

A). The German Roast Nuts....the intoxicating aroma becomes nauseating after a couple hours

B).  Kettle Korn, with the gas burner igniting every 10-15 mins drowning out all other sounds

C). The Peruvian flute players playing their whole catalog of music from their CD's

D). The overly chatty neighbor with no filter on  what details they readily share

E). Beer Tent

Others????

 

 

[QotW: What would your basic tool set be for handbuilding, or throwing?]

interesting question.... Bucket with sponge and chamois, wooded knife, needle tool, and a variety of ribs, wood, silicon, and metal, and of course the cut off wire.  loop tool for trimming.  and occasionally stamps or sprig molds for decoration.

 

[What’s on your workbench?]

Plastic bags here also.  Dry Cleaners bags, garbage bags, grocery bags, whatever plastic I have on hand.  Keep many various sizes depending on what needs covered.  Easily replaced, don't take up much room.

[QotW: tell us about your best handmade/homemade tools.]

17 hours ago, GEP said:

Homemade cutoff wires, made from fishing line and fender washers. Taught to me by the marvelous Nan Rothwell in Charlottesville VA. I love that these can be made to any length of your choosing. Storebought ones are always too long.

The first one is for cutting pugs, the second one is for cutting off small pots like mugs, the third one is for everything larger than a mug. They break every so often, but it takes only minutes to make a new one, and that one spool of fishing line will probably last a lifetime.

Awesome!!! will be making some soon!  Is there a "weight" of line that works best?

[QotW: Do you have an environmental companion in your studio while you work?]

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Typically crime dramas...Law & Order, Jag, NCIS,  basically about any syndicated TV show that I've seen before.   I don't watch them, just have them on for background.  I will do music if I'm home alone, tend to turn up too loud for the rest of the family.

 

 

[Qotw: Participants Question Pool For Future Qotw's]

For those who don't solely support themselves from pottery, what is your full / part time profession? If you reached the point self supporting in pottery, what jobs did you do along the way to fill the gaps?