claybair on sat 12 jun 04
Hey Paul,
I think you are practicing "No Shui"!
Perhaps you should write a book. :-)
Let's see...... some title suggestions......
"No Shui Man"
"My Shui or the Highway"
" I Did It My Shui" which has recording possibilities!
If you need a back up nose flutist let me know.<:-)
It is my opinion that you have esteem issues......
you should not think that you have a fair booth
but an exceptional booth!
Happy trails......
Gayle Bair
Bainbridge Island, WA
http://claybair.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Clayart [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG]On Behalf Of Paul Lewing
Sent: Sunday, June 12, 1904 5:11 PM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Feng Shui in the fair booth
MY wife has recently been reading and acting on a book, "Clear Your Clutter
with Feng Shui". It has a lot of tips on what to get rid of and how to keep
your life, in all aspects, clear of clutter. It also tells you some tings
about what not to have in various areas of your spaces.
But it never says anywhere what you actually ARE supposed to put in
different places. For instance, it says that the "money and prosperity"
area of any space is the back corner to the left as you enter. It does
mention at one point that mirrors are powerful objects.
So, here's my question: When you set up a fair booth, does that mean you
should put the money-collecting area in that corner, or your best seller, or
what you want most to sell, or what? And if you're actually trying to sell
mirror frames, should they go in that corner?
It also says that the center back is the "fame and reputation" area. Is
that then where you put your sign?
Anybody have any positive feng shui suggestions? Mostly I think I practice
what might be called "wrong shui".
Paul Lewing, Seattle
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tammy brown on sun 13 jun 04
Paul,
In my experience with Feng Shui my suggestions to you
are as follows:
In the money and prosperity corner I would put my
money-collection area. If you do not choose to do that
I would put your higher dollar items there.
You have to be very careful with mirrors. They are
powerful but you should not place any mirrors in a
direction that points outward to the door of your
booth. You are directing energy back out of your area
and you that is pretty detrimental in Feng Shui. There
is a lot more involved with mirrors but the easiest
way to explain it is to not put any pointed out,
meaning you do not want anyone to be able to look
straight back into your booth and see their
reflection. Does that make sense?
As for the center back....you could put high dollar
items there or better yet put your business cards and
advertisements there.
Let me know if you have any more questions that I
might be able to help you with in that direction??
Tammy
Clay Image Studio
--- claybair wrote:
> Hey Paul,
>
> I think you are practicing "No Shui"!
> Perhaps you should write a book. :-)
> Let's see...... some title suggestions......
> "No Shui Man"
> "My Shui or the Highway"
> " I Did It My Shui" which has recording
> possibilities!
> If you need a back up nose flutist let me know.<:-)
>
> It is my opinion that you have esteem issues......
> you should not think that you have a fair booth
> but an exceptional booth!
>
> Happy trails......
>
> Gayle Bair
> Bainbridge Island, WA
> http://claybair.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clayart [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG]On
> Behalf Of Paul Lewing
> Sent: Sunday, June 12, 1904 5:11 PM
> To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
> Subject: Feng Shui in the fair booth
>
>
> MY wife has recently been reading and acting on a
> book, "Clear Your Clutter
> with Feng Shui". It has a lot of tips on what to
> get rid of and how to keep
> your life, in all aspects, clear of clutter. It
> also tells you some tings
> about what not to have in various areas of your
> spaces.
> But it never says anywhere what you actually ARE
> supposed to put in
> different places. For instance, it says that the
> "money and prosperity"
> area of any space is the back corner to the left as
> you enter. It does
> mention at one point that mirrors are powerful
> objects.
> So, here's my question: When you set up a fair
> booth, does that mean you
> should put the money-collecting area in that corner,
> or your best seller, or
> what you want most to sell, or what? And if you're
> actually trying to sell
> mirror frames, should they go in that corner?
> It also says that the center back is the "fame and
> reputation" area. Is
> that then where you put your sign?
> Anybody have any positive feng shui suggestions?
> Mostly I think I practice
> what might be called "wrong shui".
> Paul Lewing, Seattle
>
>
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Eleanora Eden on sun 13 jun 04
Paul and all,
I always like having mirror pieces as part of my booth. People absolutely
love it, and I like the extra sense of movement and color it gives the
booth. Mirror glass is very cheap......cutting pieces to fit someplace
little to cheer the place up is not very complicated to do. Also those
foot square mirror pieces come in packs at Home Depot ...... to put under a
pot on a square pedestal or something like that.......
Eleanora
At 04:10 PM 6/12/70 -0800, you wrote:
>MY wife has recently been reading and acting on a book, "Clear Your Clutter
>with Feng Shui". It has a lot of tips on what to get rid of and how to keep
>your life, in all aspects, clear of clutter. It also tells you some tings
>about what not to have in various areas of your spaces.
>But it never says anywhere what you actually ARE supposed to put in
>different places. For instance, it says that the "money and prosperity"
>area of any space is the back corner to the left as you enter. It does
>mention at one point that mirrors are powerful objects.
>So, here's my question: When you set up a fair booth, does that mean you
>should put the money-collecting area in that corner, or your best seller, or
>what you want most to sell, or what? And if you're actually trying to sell
>mirror frames, should they go in that corner?
>It also says that the center back is the "fame and reputation" area. Is
>that then where you put your sign?
>Anybody have any positive feng shui suggestions? Mostly I think I practice
>what might be called "wrong shui".
>Paul Lewing, Seattle
>
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Paul Lewing on sun 13 jun 04
MY wife has recently been reading and acting on a book, "Clear Your Clutter
with Feng Shui". It has a lot of tips on what to get rid of and how to keep
your life, in all aspects, clear of clutter. It also tells you some tings
about what not to have in various areas of your spaces.
But it never says anywhere what you actually ARE supposed to put in
different places. For instance, it says that the "money and prosperity"
area of any space is the back corner to the left as you enter. It does
mention at one point that mirrors are powerful objects.
So, here's my question: When you set up a fair booth, does that mean you
should put the money-collecting area in that corner, or your best seller, or
what you want most to sell, or what? And if you're actually trying to sell
mirror frames, should they go in that corner?
It also says that the center back is the "fame and reputation" area. Is
that then where you put your sign?
Anybody have any positive feng shui suggestions? Mostly I think I practice
what might be called "wrong shui".
Paul Lewing, Seattle
Janet Kaiser on fri 18 jun 04
Sorry I do not have ready answers to this or any other question
concerning Feng Shui. On the contrary... I just have more queries
and thoughts, as it is quite fascinating even on a quite
superficial level. As far as I am personally concerned, it is
like the whole discussion about aesthetics or taste, I have a
"feeling" that in these East meet West situations one is at a
grave disadvantage working from books and theories. One has to
absorb feelings, the unwritten intuitions and/or unspoken
thoughts from others as one learns the "rules" and that is not
going to happen unless one learns from teachers who were not only
raised in that tradition but actively practised it for many
years. In many respects much like an orthodox religion... You can
teach converts all about it and they become immersed in the
theory and practice, but they are never really quite equal to
those born to and into it... Conservative elitism and
intellectual snobbishness? Hummmm... Pass!
As for the practice... I remember visiting a friend's home which
was supposedly arranged along Feng Shui principles by a westerner
(i.e. person with no oriental genes, experience or anything else
other than a book/books and a course of night classes). Although
they had sought their teachers help and advice, I found the whole
place slightly un- or rather imbalanced and hence strangely
disconcerting. I give one specific example which I remember
vividly... When looking from the hallway into the sitting room,
the painting on the wall opposite the doorway was "off centre" in
relation to other walls and features. Not only from the doorway
did it appear "wrong" before even entering the room, but sitting
in the room it also appeared totally skewed no matter where I
went. In the end, I had to move a chair so I could turn my back
on it, thus reduce the unfortunate discomfort it otherwise caused
me. I must point out that I am also "upset" by paintings which
are not level and have never needed a spirit level or plumb line
in my life, but do not go around people's homes putting things
straight!
Being an "arranger" of spaces by profession, where the happy
placement of work/items/furniture can mean the difference between
a good and a bad exhibition resulting in good or bad sales, I
think that I am reasonably able to judge what "works" in my
country/culture. I have a feeling (and it is no more than that)
that Feng Shui is really only the theoretical formalisation of
what I have always done "naturally". Being a different
culture/continent Eastern rules are therefore somewhat remote.
Either that, or the theory has not been implemented properly in
the few examples I have seen on the ground or in practice here in
the west.
I would certainly be very pressed to explain where the various
areas/items you question should be placed in relation to an
unknown space. As "space" such as a home, office or sales booth
is confined by a manufactured area which has also been dictated
by a great many other social, economic, cultural, practical and
architectural factors, I find that the whole concept of Feng Shui
must be amazingly complicated. No wonder it could only possibly
have developed in a very old culture indeed... Generations of
practitioners would be required to even start conceiving any
rules and guidelines... It is truly mind-boggling.
Sincerely
Janet Kaiser -- at the start of Festival Week here in Criccieth.
*** IN REPLY TO THE FOLLOWING MAIL:
>MY wife has recently been reading and acting on a book, "Clear
Your
>Clutter with Feng Shui". It has a lot of tips on what to get
rid of and how to
>keep your life, in all aspects, clear of clutter. It also tells
you some tings
>about what not to have in various areas of your spaces.
>But it never says anywhere what you actually ARE supposed to put
in
>different places.
*** THE MAIL FROM Paul Lewing ENDS HERE ***
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claybair on mon 21 jun 04
Although I wrote what I thought was an amusing
response to Paul's original posting there is a great deal of
validity to the presentation of a booth.
I just had a hellacious weekend...... a bummer of a show with
setting up/tear down in record degree heat.
It seemed only I had a lack of sales.
I set up the booth 4 different ways and still little to no sales.
Then someone observed that most other booths were in the sun light and
3 of us were under a tree where it was very shaded. I pulled all the side
walls down
to garner any available light but it was too late.... sales did not recover.
To add to the already turbulent weekend I witnessed a horrible car accident.
Then checking my email I find Ababi died.
I felt like there had been a convergence of bad things that peaked last
night.
So this past weekend .... forgive me if I say I Flung Shui!
Gayle Bair - sorely missing Ababi
Bainbridge Island, WA
http://claybair.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Janet Kaiser
Sorry I do not have ready answers to this or any other question
concerning Feng Shui. On the contrary... I just have more queries
and thoughts, as it is quite fascinating even on a quite
superficial level. As far as I am personally concerned, it is
like the whole discussion about aesthetics or taste, I have a
"feeling" that in these East meet West situations one is at a
grave disadvantage working from books and theories. One has to
absorb feelings, the unwritten intuitions and/or unspoken
thoughts from others as one learns the "rules" and that is not
going to happen unless one learns from teachers who were not only
raised in that tradition but actively practised it for many
years. In many respects much like an orthodox religion... You can
teach converts all about it and they become immersed in the
theory and practice, but they are never really quite equal to
those born to and into it... Conservative elitism and
intellectual snobbishness? Hummmm... Pass!
As for the practice... I remember visiting a friend's home which
was supposedly arranged along Feng Shui principles by a westerner
(i.e. person with no oriental genes, experience or anything else
other than a book/books and a course of night classes). Although
they had sought their teachers help and advice, I found the whole
place slightly un- or rather imbalanced and hence strangely
disconcerting. I give one specific example which I remember
vividly... When looking from the hallway into the sitting room,
the painting on the wall opposite the doorway was "off centre" in
relation to other walls and features. Not only from the doorway
did it appear "wrong" before even entering the room, but sitting
in the room it also appeared totally skewed no matter where I
went. In the end, I had to move a chair so I could turn my back
on it, thus reduce the unfortunate discomfort it otherwise caused
me. I must point out that I am also "upset" by paintings which
are not level and have never needed a spirit level or plumb line
in my life, but do not go around people's homes putting things
straight!
Being an "arranger" of spaces by profession, where the happy
placement of work/items/furniture can mean the difference between
a good and a bad exhibition resulting in good or bad sales, I
think that I am reasonably able to judge what "works" in my
country/culture. I have a feeling (and it is no more than that)
that Feng Shui is really only the theoretical formalisation of
what I have always done "naturally". Being a different
culture/continent Eastern rules are therefore somewhat remote.
Either that, or the theory has not been implemented properly in
the few examples I have seen on the ground or in practice here in
the west.
I would certainly be very pressed to explain where the various
areas/items you question should be placed in relation to an
unknown space. As "space" such as a home, office or sales booth
is confined by a manufactured area which has also been dictated
by a great many other social, economic, cultural, practical and
architectural factors, I find that the whole concept of Feng Shui
must be amazingly complicated. No wonder it could only possibly
have developed in a very old culture indeed... Generations of
practitioners would be required to even start conceiving any
rules and guidelines... It is truly mind-boggling.
Sincerely
Janet Kaiser -- at the start of Festival Week here in Criccieth.
*** IN REPLY TO THE FOLLOWING MAIL:
>MY wife has recently been reading and acting on a book, "Clear
Your
>Clutter with Feng Shui". It has a lot of tips on what to get
rid of and how to
>keep your life, in all aspects, clear of clutter. It also tells
you some tings
>about what not to have in various areas of your spaces.
>But it never says anywhere what you actually ARE supposed to put
in
>different places.
*** THE MAIL FROM Paul Lewing ENDS HERE ***
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8 Marine Crescent : Criccieth : Wales : UK
Home of The International Potters' Path
Tel: ++44 (01766) 523570 http://www.the-coa.org.uk
************* Virus Protection by AVG *****************
************************************************************
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