Business

The busi­ness side of Art of the Firebird

I was try­ing to pho­to­graph some of my chain­maille bracelets tonight to get them listed at 1000 Mar­kets and Art­fire. Pho­tog­ra­phy isn’t my favorite part of the process, but tonight was par­tic­u­larly aggra­vat­ing. One prob­lem I’ve had in the past is get­ting a clearly focused pic­ture because I run into depth of field issues. In automatic […]

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Today’s weather was nasty, so between it and the econ­omy today wasn’t a lot bet­ter than yes­ter­day at the show. I mean, we only made ONE sale (a rather good one, to be sure) between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Wow, just wow. It did pick up between 3 p.m. and close at 5 p.m., […]

Show, Day 1

It was slow. What can I say? Pretty much we were all in agree­ment — even Audrey, when she came and browsed late in the after­noon, said it had been slow. Of course, we have had shows with slow Sat­ur­days before, and they have usu­ally been fol­lowed by good Sun­days, so we shall remain opti­mistic. In […]

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No, not THAT kind of quickie ::frown::. I spent all evening doing all the show prep stuff that I know not to put off until the last minute but do so any­way. I always end up clean­ing the last batch of beads on the last night, and then they have to be sorted, culled, placed […]

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My busi­ness part­ner Andrea com­mented on Twit­ter this week that I totally fail at brand­ing. I tweet about res­cue dogs, acad­e­mia, early music, lam­p­work and jew­elry, words, health care, and pol­i­tics. She’s not alone — I could almost have writ­ten that tweet, though mine would have said “I tweet about res­cue cats, com­put­ing, lam­p­work and jewelry, […]

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