Tomorrow is the day!

Our market to sell our pottery is tomorrow, at the McDowell High School in Marion NC...10am - 4 pm!

To market, to market, to buy a fat (pot!)

Yes, you can see me there (again) sharing a booth with Cathy Babula in the gym in front of the bleachers!  Hope to see some friends (and make some new ones!)

Pottery Market next Saturday Dec 7

McDowell High School, Marion NC  

Going to market

Another year at the Potters Market in Marion NC, held at the high school...McDowell HS.  I hope the regulars come, and maybe some new people this year (both customers and vendors.)

 Display from last year...many of these are no longer in the inventory! New pots, yay!

 A few of these ornaments will still be around...

  But what is coming this year?

I don't know for sure yet...maybe these...

Pottery Market in Marion NC

 Cathy Babula's display before the doors opened.

 My display before the doors opened in the gym of McDowell High School

 My ornaments and some vases and teapots...

 The yoga cats were quite popular!

 There at the door is the line starting to wait for the opening, while potters still arrange things, and some of the organizers stand in the middle of the cafeteria just before 10 am.

 So glad to meet a fellow friend from Facebook (and perhaps a blogger as well) Cat Jarosz

This was Michelle Soule's first time at this sale, after I encouraged her to display her Ikebana and angels...which were quite lovely.

 Just as people started to come into the gym, I climbed to the balcony (where one of the entrances for customers was) and took a quick shot of the layout.

 Then things got busy for a couple of hours!

 Cathy would explain to those who were interested how her berry bowls worked with a saucer/lid.

 After a box lunch, I was happy to sit down for a while.

And now it is several days later, and I've recovered (mostly) from the long day.  I even did a bit of book shopping for gifts today.  Now how can I give them if I haven't read them first? (They are used in the first place...which is how I can afford to give them for gifts this year.)

Did I mention I'll be at the Owen Middle School sale (Black Mountain) this Sat, Dec. 9, from 10-4...sharing a booth with Sally Smith this time.  It's my first time at this venue, and I'm excited to be part of it.

Today's Quote:

We remember that nature's power is as close as our breath, and we breathe deeply once again.

Getting ready for the next show

I have few opportunities to sell my pottery, thus I live with shelves and tubs of it in my tiny apartment. But a big show is coming up the first Sat. of December.  At the Marion High School, indoors! McDowell Arts Council sponsors the show for just pottery.

Once again Cathy Babula and I will take our tables, shelves and tubs of pottery to sell to those wonderful customers who want the best pottery in the area.  This show is where everyone gets their gifts for Christmas!  And almost all the potters in the area will display their wares. I noted the many ou56t-of-state potters in Dillsboro's pottery show.  I'd guess about half of them came from outside North Carolina.  This show will have many more local potters.

I'm sent in this photo of my sunflower bowl for the program.

Hope to see you Dec. 2!

 Today's Quote:

When negative thoughts arise it is best to address them rather than pushing them down where they will surface again. 
Madisyn Taylor

Honoring an ancestor every chance I get:

Robert FARNHAM I, 1577–1604

Birth 1577 • Leicester, Leicestershire, England

Death 1604 • Leicester, Leicestershire, Eng

 He was my 10th great grandfather on my grandmother Ada Phillips Swasey Rogers' tree.

Robert FARNHAM was born in 1577 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England. He married Elizabeth HOLT in 1600 in Leicestershire, England. They had one child during their marriage. He died as a young father in 1604 in his hometown.  His wife Elizabeth Holt Farnham lived from 1581-1675.

Ancestry has some other information, including another wife's name, and other children...but there's little to substantiate that information yet.

 

 

 

 

Being at the Appalachian Potters Fair in Marion NC

Just before the opening of the doors, with a crowd waiting to get inside form the cold.  We had a new booth this year next to bleachers in the gymn...seemed there weren't as many potters in there as last year.

My rather simple fare was next to a young man who made large and beautiful pieces.

I'm rather glad that many of my pieces didn't come home with me.  Selling the snack jars with a prepacked snack of their choice seemed to be a good idea.  And I finally did reduce my prices after it looked like the day was over but we still had several hours to sit there.  Does anyone else do that?

And my business partner, Cathy Babula, sold many of her works, including these two large pieces in the foreground.

Today's Quote:

One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?"

Rachel Carson