Devine Designs Jewelry

That is, for the artist, I mean. There are many fine art shows for patrons of the arts to attend. We have no loss of artistic talent here. What I'm talking about is actual "buying customers". It seems that we have a population here, of elderly people and retirees, who do not have any money, and are just out for a walk. Basically, looking for entertainment for the day or weekend. Now there are many reasons why this is so. First of all, let me blame the bad economy that I hear has been getting better, well, I have not seen that here in Florida. The second problem is that we have too many "arts and crafts" shows in Florida. And I think that the average shopper cannot make the distinction about what classifies as a "craft" show, and a "fine art" show. And since they cannot tell the difference between mass produced, cheap materials, and assembled items, as apposed to fine craftsmenship~whether it be of metalsmithing, painting, professi...

Live and learn. This was to be a 2 day event; I only stayed yesterday. To start off the weather was not on our sides. I was soooo windy. I would rather have rain than the wind. I got to use my new weight bags for this show, but these were not enough. I even had my husband come back by the opening hour and bring me another 27 lbs. to attach to the middle of the tent to stabilize it. Two tents blew completely over, papers and brochures were flying everywhere. Tree pollen was all over the tables and jewelry. I had a nice location to set up my booth, on the corner, in front of a "new age" type of book store, but being on the corner, I caught alot of wind. I was doing "double duty" also. My friend Carol, who was to share the booth with me, hurt her back and could not come, so I offered to set up all her stuff and sell for her too. Now this event was suppose to be a "white tent only, juried items only accepted", but turned out that was not the case. This...

Well, I guess I'm starting on those goals I listed a while back in a post. I have decided to try to do at least 3 arts and crafts shows this fall. Today, (after many hours and days of research on-line and via the phone to pick out ones I liked), I've found 4 or 5, applied to 3 of them and sent in 2 applications today. This took all day. One app. was quite long, plus they wanted photos of my work, my booth and me creating stuff! So I had to make some quick photos, ran out to get them developed, came home and realized that I needed more photos, so out again to the store! I can't believe how long it takes me to do stuff sometimes! I have a number of new pieces of jewelry made, but have not yet priced or photographed them, so I guess that will wait for another day!