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stinking studio

updated thu 21 apr 11

 

mel jacobson on mon 18 apr 11


i have always gone to the asian market
and buy that huge bundle of inexpensive
incense. i burn it all the time. when guests
are coming, i lite one about an hour before arrival.

it is very soft and easy. nothing like turning
customers away from a stinking lousy studio.
mel
(odor is our strongest/most powerful sense.
use that to your advantage as a seller of pots.)
from: minnetonka, mn
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Des & Jan Howard on tue 19 apr 11


During the recent heavy rains, & floods), we had 75mm,
(3" to you lot), of water come onto to the dry laid
brick workshop floor. A lot of leaf litter came with
it. After the water drained fungus grew, thumb sized
grey & white lumps, palm sized sulphur yellow liquid
blobs that looked like vomit. The workshop smelled like
a teen's sneakers!
We watered the entire area down with a pine/eucalyptus
disinfectant & had constant incense burning.
Eventual sweet (no)smell of success.
Des

On 18/04/2011 10:39 PM, mel jacobson wrote:
> nothing like turning
> customers away from a stinking lousy studio.
> mel
> (odor is our strongest/most powerful sense.
> use that to your advantage as a seller of pots.)

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Des & Jan Howard
Lue Pottery
Lue NSW
Australia
2850

02 6373 6419
www.luepottery.hwy.com.au
-32.656072 149.840624

Stephani Stephenson on wed 20 apr 11


mel ,I never thought of you as an incense burning potter!
i do the same thing,=3D20
incense always takes me back in time, to when i was 14 or 15,=3D20
just like irises take me back to when i was 3 and stuck my nose in a big
purple Iris for the first time. almost physically transports me!

in the greenhouse studio, the center of the building became a gushing
fountain with the big rains, which we used to great advantage to squeegie=
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all 10,000 SF of cement slab floor. but with repeated rains, we did get =
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wee bit of that wet washrag smell, at least til the sun came out for a fe=
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days. out came the incense.
now the only time i use it as a cover up in this rural area is when one o=
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the locals burns some trash and forgets to take out the
plastic...fortunately the main offender has moved but occasionally theirs=
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a
bit of it afloat, so out comes the incense....
and sometimes i just like to play my Donovan, Quicksilver , Ravi Shanka=
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r
or Its a Beautiful Day tapes and out comes the incense...

other times I just listen to the ravens,doves, quail , sparrows,
thrashers,orioles and mockingbirds and smell the smell of the desert, mtn=
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and river. mmmmmm!
life is good.
Stephani S