[Jewelry making - Article 01774] - Re: [Orchid] Prepping for a show gets the creativity flowing

[Lisa Gallagher]

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    Thanks for your replies, it's interesting to see other people's
    views on the subject. 

    Kerry, thanks for your reply, it made me chuckle. I think we're very
    similar. I suppose I also try to do too much in too short a period
    of time. And YES, that one more piece might be the ONE that special
    customer wants to buy! It's hard when you do things all
    one-of-a-kind. What's to say THAT one isn't the one that would be
    just perfect for customer X that walks in your booth that weekend?
    Same idea when I try to decide what to pull out of a gallery for the
    show. There was a bracelet, as it turns out, that I sold at my show
    this past weekend, that I had been wondering if I should take out of
    the gallery. Well, good thing I did, of course. But what about the
    ones I didn't? Would they have perhaps sold, too, if only I'd brought
    them? 

    Allan, yes I know they won't know what they don't have to choose
    from. But I will!! ;-) One thing that helped was knowing that I have
    another show in just a few weeks, and another one a few weeks after
    that, and another after that. What I didn't get done for this show,
    I'll work on for the next! 

    Someone suggested, too, that it might be "mudane work avoidance".
    Well, although I'd like to think it's not, there could just be some
    truth in that, too. Making jewelry is MUCH more fun than packing
    stuff up into a car that will barely hold it (there wasn't a spare
    inch to be found in my poor little station wagon, including on the
    roof!), especially when it's super hot & humid. Well, I suppose
    that's all relative, but it was pretty yucky for central PA. 

    So now that show is done, I'm back at my computer, catching up on my
    Orchid reading. The show went OK, although financially not super.
    Good experience anyway, and I hope to be there again next year. So,
    now I'll "calmly" get ready for the next show, and I'm sure the few
    days before it, I'll find myself frantically trying to get those few
    new ideas finished in time! lol

Lisa
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