Eleanora Eden on mon 14 nov 05
>Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 08:30:02 -0500
>To: Clayart
>From: Eleanora Eden
>Subject: Delivering work
>Cc: Steve Irvine
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>Hi Steve and all,
>
>Your peaceful post moved me to look at your webpage and I'm so glad
>I did. Your wonderful pots are arranged with comments, very
>personal and welcoming.
>
>At the end of the fair season I line up all the pots that go to
>galleries and split them up and have two big delivery days, one
>through New Hampshire to the League galleries and one through
>Vermont to the Frog Hollow galleries.
>
>This year the rains were persistent in October so it took a week or
>so to get good days for travelling, but it was worth the wait for
>sure. We left bright and early getting to the first gallery in
>Windsor just when it opened at 10 am. Up through Hanover to Lake
>Winnapasaukee......jeez, how DO you spell that....up to Portsmouth
>area and then back through Keene.
>
>Every year I look forward to my fall store trip.... just driving the
>roads in fall.....make a point of travelling a new piece of road
>each time. Somehow this year the visits with the gallery personnel
>was especially gratifying. Definitely that feeling of partnership
>you mention. They all seem happy to have my work and welcome the
>little sales spiel I try to give about the work, a little pep talk.
>
>Yesterday we took an excuse to make a small delivery to Burlington
>and a trip to Small Dog Computers. We took an amazing road over a
>mountain crest (yeah I know this is Vermont and the mountains are
>tiny but STILL.....). At the very top it was all ice encrusted,
>every branch and leaf of grass, shining in a small bit of sun. Very
>cool. Going steeply down into fancy horse country past a ten-sided
>barn painted light yellow that must be in all the Vermont barn
>books......
>
>And then so happy to wake up to a whole bunch more days of not going
>anywhere and just looking out the window while I work......
>
>Eleanora
>
>
>>Spent the better part of today delivering work to a shop in
>>Waterloo. Heading south down highway
>>6 I had a couple of hours of rolling southern Ontario farm land
>>passing by, and a dozen or so
>>small towns, all of them somewhat different, all of them somewhat
>>the same. I shared the highway
>>with everything from 18 wheelers to Mennonite buggies. An oddly
>>sunny, warm day for early
>>November.
>>
>>Much as I enjoy working in the studio, it's good to get out once in
>>awhile and forget about all the
>>technical stuff and just get lost in the moment of travelling the
>>countryside.
>>
>>While talking with the store owner, he seemed more like a kind of
>>partner rather than just a
>>wholesale customer. To a certain degree our individual success
>>depends on the success and
>>growth of each other. I'll visit his store again in the spring.
>>
>>I got back home in the mid-afternoon and the shadows were already
>>getting long, the sun low in
>>the sky. The season's cycle is winding down to winter, and I'm
>>ready to start another cycle of work
>>in the studio.
>>
>>Steve
>>http://www.steveirvine.com
>>
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