This is all so awesome, you are building up a brilliant business! Did they teach you some of this stuff at uni? I wouldn't know where to start. (I mean the business side, not the art side, obviously, I know you did art!)
This is all so awesome, you are building up a brilliant business! Did they teach you some of this stuff at uni? I wouldn't know where to start. (I mean the business side, not the art side, obviously, I know you did art!)
I love seeing the pictures you are posing!
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Yes the course I did at uni was a business course as well as art. It is quite unique in that respect as very few art degrees prepare you for the business aspects of a self employed artist like this one did. Of course it helps that I have run three companies before this, but the course was really helpful in understanding the art business.
It seems I have become famous. I just went down to our "scrapstore" to become a member and the ladies in there went "oh are you the lady who is running the pottery classes in weston advertising on FB?"
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Hey brilliant on getting recognised so quickly hun x
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Phew, 6 kids this evening, all making little cottages and all at different stages. I had my two most constant customers tonight as well. B and W who are both 4. W is a boy and was not keen on making a cottage and took some persuading, he was much more interested in making "poo". B is a girl and is much easier to work with but not big enough to roll her own clay. Unfortunately both parents legged it when they dropped those two off as B and W are quite happy to be left with me. I have to try and get W to make something along with the group as left to his own devices he creates HUGE creatures and uses much more clay than I can really afford. Of course W saw the sea monsters we made this morning so he nows wants to make them.
The mum and Dad of two of the kids stayed with them but I suspect that actually the parents did most of the work, unfortunately I was so tied up with B and W that I could not intervene or I would have given the parents their own clay but I think everyone enjoyed themselves anyway.
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As long as everyone had fun!-.gif ")")
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Well my bank balance will look a bit healthier after this week. The HE Clay group paid upfront for 6 weeks so I will have to transfer the money over to the savings account once it is paid in so I can drip it back into the current account week by week and not go mad on the spending. However I am now comfortably in profit. I have a lot of people who want courses and so I now have to consider what I will add to the schedule or if I just stick with what I have for a while.
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That's brilliant! Well done hunni. That's fantastic - you haven't been trading long and already you're in profit? Amazing.
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I know and I also have people begging me to put on more classes. I just had a message from someone asking if I would put on another beginners art class and I added about 5 people to the waiting list for kids classes plus some mums have asked if I would do a group for them. I will have to consider these carefully though. I calculated last night that I actually have enough coming in from the classes and the rent from H to live of and so do I actually want to do more? Maybe I can rent the space out to a friend for them to run a class? Just need to find a friend I trust not to give Carantoc Art a bad name with poor teaching.
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Not even two months in... and you are thinking of employing staff
You're so awesome Pen.gif "(bear)")
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