Nana on thu 20 may 04
Hope ya'll aren't sick of my questions yet :) Because I have 2 of
them. :)
1)
I just finished packaging and delivering my first commission (18
mugs), and I'm reeeelly nervous about it.
I've learned a lot about what I want to have to do business (like
business cards, packing materials, and a better idea of what a
customer wants me to make).
Anyone who does commissions have advice on rejection? I heard around
that it's common to agree beforehand to do one remake if the first
pieces are not what was wanted. That seems like asking for trouble to
me.
I mean how do you deal with people wanting a glaze to look one way and
it turning out another? Just attain perfection?
2)
I've got to raise a lot of money for college this summer. I'm
thinking the best way to do this is to make a ton of mugs, because
even though I'm starting to hate them, people buy them dependably.
Any advice on the mug cycle? What I did last time was throw on one
day, trim a couple of days later, pull and add handles the next, fire
a week later, glaze and then fire the next day. (That's 2 long weeks,
too long!) But if I'm going to make a hundred, I can't make them all
in one batch, so I'll have to have more than one batch in different
parts of the cycle at the same time. Is this all stuff I have to work
out for myself, or are there basic wisdoms that would help me out? I
did a batch of 36 last time, which was a little unwieldy all together.
3)
Thanks an awful lot to those of you who've answered my questions.
Hopefully someday I'll have some knowledge to pass along, pay back in
kind.
Nana
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