The CAST Tour of Fine Craft (that’s Craft Artists of Southern Tennessee) went well, at least at our end of the tour. We had a good turnout and everyone in our studio location did well. I’ve heard mixed reports from other participants but in light of the economic situation I’m generally pleased with our results. We can always try to do better, though – especially with marketing. This year we had our web site up and did more radio advertising, but I think we need to find a way to better target our audience.
I’m hoping to make more progress now on getting prepared to build the soda kiln. Having major tree work done and repairing the fences damaged by those trees was an unexpected bite out of the budget, but hopefully the new year will bode well for new starts! I’m still scared of the propane tank that I’ll need to fuel the kiln . . . no good reason except that I have zilch experience with that fuel source (and I think the tanks are not that attractive, either). But the motivation is that with that kiln I could produce more work like this:
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