A Busy Sunday Ahead
It's bank holiday Sunday and boy have I a lot to do, no bead making or throwing pots today, just a long day cleaning, photographing and listing both beads and ceramics, as you can tell by the lack of beads I've listed this week, to tell you the truth, the last four or five days I've been as stiff as a board and sitting for hours cleaning beads was the last thing I needed.
I'm sorry if this sounds lazy, I'm not I promise, it just seems that some weeks I get the odd period of a few days when my joints hurt more, I'm getting used to it and apart from moving around like someone of 80 I should be grateful that's all I have to suffer when so many people have far worst things to cope with every day of their lives.
So, today is catching up day here at the barn and I'll be locked to my seat cleaning all day even if it means I can't walk tomorrow haha ! The ceramic kiln is cooling down from last nights glaze firing and I hope this evening to pack it with more items that need bisque firing, I have a feeling I'll be listing ceramics all this week, lets just hope a few get sold.
This time of year is always so quiet on the sales side of things, just another negative of being a full time bead maker, most people think we live the ideal life and in many ways we do, but it's not all easy going, in fact I think most of you who follow my blog must know by now just how hard it can be, when things are tough I just hope for that one little piece of luck that we all need in life and maybe ours will come. I must admit sometimes I wonder what I did wrong in a past life to get in such a mess, but then I guess that's just silly and the only reason we are not doing so great is because I need to work harder, put in more hours making those items that sell, I need to look through my past sales and take notice of the best sellers, I am the first to admit I make a lot of sets that in the back of my mind I know won't do that well, I guess it's past experience that teaches us makers just what will be popular and what won't, still you hope but now I'm thinking hope is just not enough anymore and it's time I started making real beads again, beads I love making and beads I know others enjoy.
When things are hard my head tells me to make anything, it's more quantity rather than quality and to me that's not how I want to be, yes I agree people like a range of simple beads such as spacers etc but they also like the more unique beads, the beads that made my love for glass grow, the beads that excite you in the mornings when you open the kiln, those beads that you feel proud of when you clean and string them and I know I need to get back to making those, if things stay a struggle at least I'll be making the beads I love once again and not just turning out beads for money.
So from tomorrow morning every set of beads I make will once again be a pleasure and not a chore, my love for pebble beads will I'm sure mean they will be making an appearance once again in my etsy shop and many encased beads too. Any more simple beads will be listed in the ebay shop over the next few weeks and yes I will still make spacer sets, tho I'm not yet sure which shop I'll been listing then in, maybe both etsy and ebay.
Now it's off to the cleaning table for me and a trip to the veg garden to harvest some beans and kale for this evenings dinner, the fens are well and truly damp this morning after those wonderful thunder storms last night and tho a grey sky this morning they say it will stay dry. I hope you all enjoy the rest of this bank holiday weekend.
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