Gabby
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How is everyone? It has been a while. Just wanted to check in and say I love and miss you all! Fired my kiln today. First time in 8 months I have even touched a pot. Made me realize how much I miss this community. Hope everyone's pots are great and their glazes are perfection!
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It's a wonderful career to have, Joseph. I too have been an economist but have spent the last twenty years teaching secondary math with a middle grades specialty.
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How is everyone? It has been a while. Just wanted to check in and say I love and miss you all! Fired my kiln today. First time in 8 months I have even touched a pot. Made me realize how much I miss this community. Hope everyone's pots are great and their glazes are perfection!
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Glad to see your name again. I worried.
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Need to dry out and launder my entire display, after a rain-soaked weekend show.
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This brings back so many drenched camping memories.
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Glazing 13 fish today so tomorrows glaze day goes smoother
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Last night was the first time I have found myself working in the studio in the middle of the night, up out of bed at midnight and impatient to try something. After two hours I was back in bed. Lucky today isn't a teaching day!
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I'm no spring chicken either, Mark. Normally I am the poster child for early to bed and early to rise.
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Started in on my first clay toy for a small event later this summer. Not so easy, but feels great to be back in the studio.
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Beautiful turtle. Every Wednesday morning I start my day by greeting two very slow and peaceful Asian Brown Tortoises. Isn't the tortoise a good luck symbol?
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My 45th year of 4th of July local show is in the am.
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Bought a used shop sink complete with stand and hardware for $20. Is everyone on vacation??
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Kiln opening #6 tonight. Finally gave my neighbor his mug.
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Stuck on making up a 'store' title and motif. Grokking new 'bread & butter designs. Needing to make some stuff for myself alone.
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This is just my feeling, as someone who has bought pottery both from Etsy and at a shop.
I don't think the store name matters on Etsy. That will be all about photos and descriptions.
I don't think it matters either for items you might sell through someone else's shop.
For a booth, I would choose a name that draws people because it captures who they want to believe they are or how they want to live. We have participants here whose business names are, for example, Good Earth and Dirt Roads, each of which evokes an image of a way of life.
I'd definitely walk into a booth called Queen Agnes' Intergalactic Kitchen, but that doesn't mean the residents of Coos Bay would. I have a card tucked under my computer from a potter who does hand-building and calls herself Earth to Annie, a name that captures both the Earth origin of her material and the fantasy embodied in the style of her work.
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Stuck on making up a 'store' title and motif. Grokking new 'bread & butter designs. Needing to make some stuff for myself alone.
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What sort of store do you envision? What do you want the name and motif to do?
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Successfully test fired the new kiln last night.
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Excellent! May you use it with great joy.
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First of Communion presentation sets went out. 13 more to go out. Honey jars and mugs are moving along. Whew.
