Dale Neese on fri 8 jan 10
Eh, a business? What full blown pottery business? It's a life style! Mighty
fine life style you got there David.... make hay while the sun shines, clos=
e
out the old year doing year end paper work when the throwing water is too
cold to the hand. Myself included. Sales taxes paid. Cut the firewood to
warm the house till the thaw green comes. A ton of new clay in the door of
the studio. Propane reserve full in the tank, thoughtfully stacked kiln
firing wood drying in the dry cold winter air. Studio floors swept and
mopped. Glaze buckets brimming over. Sketches on the chalk board.
Anticipation. Spring arrives early here in Texas. With the coming of the
Bluebonnets the potters in Texas bloom out too. For everything there is a
season.
HAPPY NEW YEAR POTTERS!
Dale Tex
"across the alley from the Alamo"
Helotes, Texas USA
www.daleneese.com
tony clennell on fri 8 jan 10
I just came in from 2 1/2 hours of snow blowing. I bought a
snowblower some years ago so that our pottery parking lot looked clean
and accessible. You can either look like you're in business or not.
When we built here our realtor told us you can have A/C in your
showroom and have customers or you can have no A/C and no customers. I
took this to heart and part of being a fully blown pottery is to have
a nicely fully blown driveway. In my time this morning it also
includes doing my 88 year old neighbours. He is so cheap he'd try to
shovel that damn thing.
Oh and if E is reading my post I'd like to point her to how I now list
my spring workshops as the signature of my posts. Cleaver, eh? I
learned this from fellow Business School alumni Chris Campbell. i was
pleased to look at her website and find we went to the same U for
Business Admin.
Well the hot tea has thawed me out so I better make some pots.
I owe, I owe so off to work I go!
Tony
--
http://sourcherrypottery.com
http://smokieclennell.blogspot.com
Workshop Feb 5,6,7 Mudbucket Pottery
Myrtle Beach, SC
info@mudbucketpottery.com
Workshop Feb 13th
Tucker's Pottery Supply-Lies, lies and more lies
info@tuckerspottery.com
La Meridiana, Italy April 25/May 8th- workshop is full
Calgary May 14,15, 16 Mount Pleasant Arts Centre NMPAC@calgary.ca
Elizabeth Priddy on fri 8 jan 10
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Evonne Smulders on fri 8 jan 10
Me too!
Evonne
Evonne Smulders
evonne@terracottagallery.ca
www.terracottagallery.ca
On 8-Jan-10, at 3:01 PM, Elizabeth Priddy wrote:
> I will start listing my workshops in my signature, too! So there!
>
> But do you list them if they are already full? I am doing one
> tomorrow on brushpainting in Washington, NC. And in Austin, Texas,
> at the end of February.
>
> - ePriddy
>
> Elizabeth Priddy
> Beaufort, NC - USA
>
> http://www.elizabethpriddy.com
>
>
> --- On Fri, 1/8/10, tony clennell wrote:
>
>> From: tony clennell
>>
>> Oh and if E is reading my post I'd like to point her to how
>> I now list
>> my spring workshops as the signature of my posts. Cleaver,
>> eh? I
>> learned this from fellow Business School alumni Chris
>> Campbell. i was
>> pleased to look at her website and find we went to the
>> same U for
>> Business Admin.
>
>
>
>
Neal on fri 8 jan 10
I found out about Tony and Sheila Clennell's
upcoming workshop in South Carolina from this
list--and wrote for more info right away. And
then signed up for it.
The Mud Bucket Pottery website has complete
info about the workshop now, so Tony needs to
update his signature. The URL is:
http://www.mudbucketpottery.com/workshops.html
I've watched Tony's and Sheila's DVDs and am
looking forward to this weekend getaway. Anyone
else going from Clayart?
Neal O'B.
Raleigh, N.C.
David Hendley on fri 8 jan 10
I guess I'm justa part-timer in the business. When the weather gets
awful, I just close it down and spend a day doing paperwork or
other necessary stuff at the house. Today, I closed out the books
for 2009, and am ready to fill out my Schedule C.
After almost 20 years at this location, I know that there is less than
a 1% chance of a customer showing up if it is storming or raining,
or brutally cold. I can always trek over there if someone shows up.
As we are suffering through the coldest weather in many years,
I can only imagine what things must be like in the frost belt. It
is hovering in the mid-30's in my shop. It would take hours of
burning wood in the stove to bring it up to 70 degrees, and then
a constant fire to maintain it, with a repeat session tomorrow.
It's an old, mostly uninsulated building, and to me, it's not worth all
that work for marginal gain - I had to cut and split all that wood.
Likewise, it's hot in there in July and August. No way would I
spend $200 a month to try to air condition the place. As Tony
well knows, and is fond of saying, the 'experience' of the visit
is one of my main marketing themes - a real potter, doing real
work, with real hands. The heat is part of the experience.
Tony, I hope your investment of 2 1/2 hours for clearing the
driveway nets you a customer or 3.
David Hendley
david@farmpots.com
http://www.farmpots.com
----- Original Message -----
>I just came in from 2 1/2 hours of snow blowing. I bought a
> snowblower some years ago so that our pottery parking lot looked clean
> and accessible. You can either look like you're in business or not.
> When we built here our realtor told us you can have A/C in your
> showroom and have customers or you can have no A/C and no customers. I
> took this to heart and part of being a fully blown pottery is to have
> a nicely fully blown driveway.
tony clennell on fri 8 jan 10
E: yes list the full ones too! It shows you are in demand.
tc
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Elizabeth Priddy wro=
te:
> I will start listing my workshops in my signature, too! So there!
>
> But do you list them if they are already full? I am doing one tomorrow o=
n brushpainting in Washington, NC. And in Austin, Texas, at the end of Feb=
ruary.
>
> - ePriddy
>
> Elizabeth Priddy
> Beaufort, NC - USA
>
> http://www.elizabethpriddy.com
>
>
> --- On Fri, 1/8/10, tony clennell wrote:
>
>> From: tony clennell
>>
>> Oh and if E is reading my post I'd like to point her to how
>> I now list
>> my spring workshops as the signature of my posts. Cleaver,
>> eh? I
>> learned this from fellow Business School alumni Chris
>> Campbell. i was
>> pleased to look at her website and find we went to the
>> same U for
>> Business Admin.
>
>
>
>
>
--
http://sourcherrypottery.com
http://smokieclennell.blogspot.com
Workshop Feb 5,6,7 Mudbucket Pottery
Myrtle Beach, SC
info@mudbucketpottery.com
Workshop Feb 13th
Tucker's Pottery Supply-Lies, lies and more lies
info@tuckerspottery.com
La Meridiana, Italy April 25/May 8th- workshop is full
Calgary May 14,15, 16 Mount Pleasant Arts Centre NMPAC@calgary.ca
Lee Love on fri 8 jan 10
I'll start listing Tony's workshops in my sig too. ;^)
--=3D20
--
Lee, a Mashiko potter in Minneapolis
Tony's workshops:
Workshop Feb 5,6,7 Mudbucket Pottery
Myrtle Beach, SC
info@mudbucketpottery.com
Workshop Feb 13th
Tucker's Pottery Supply-Lies, lies and more lies
info@tuckerspottery.com
La Meridiana, Italy April 25/May 8th- workshop is full
Calgary May 14,15, 16 Mount Pleasant Arts Centre NMPAC@calgary.ca
"Ta tIr na n-=3DF3g ar chul an tI=3D97tIr dlainn trina ch=3DE9ile"=3D97tha=
t is, "T=3D
he
land of eternal youth is behind the house, a beautiful land fluent
within itself." -- John O'Donohue
John Johnson on sat 9 jan 10
Tony I agree with you too; post the full ones as well as those yet to be =
=3D
full!=3D20
By the way, we still have room for more folks here at the beach.=3D20
I'm sure folks will enjoy seeing Sheila making cane & sweet grass han=3D
dles even=3D20
if they are forced to watch you make pots first ;-)
Should we change the schedlue around some??
John Johnson
Mud Bucket Pottery
www.mudbucketpottery.com
johnniej@mudbucketpottery.com
Sheila (and Tony) Clennell at the Beach=3D20
workshop Feb 5, 6 & 7.
http://www.mudbucketpottery.com/workshops.html=3D20
Inexpensive hotels in the off season during Febryary & the best time =3D
of year=3D20
for oysters!
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