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t the frit to stick then i melt it in and by the time that happens if i apply the stringer while the base is still molten the scrolls stick and eventually melt in needs more development and size control size control is what ticks me off about the above beads i made a mushroom of silvered ivory dotted it with cim bordello and encased the whole thing in effetre light brown trans it s a technique i m exploring further with different color beads in the kiln but these are meh there s a whole mm difference in diameter and when i m encasing it s so tough to get the same thickness i m trying it with more obvious colors and somehow hoping that will improve my technique i ll let you know if that produces any miracles i think this must be one of those lulls when i m keeping my head up until the next breakthrough i m learning quite a bit about the way glass melts and works but will i be able to translate it into anything relevant a high point next week i ll have a new color to play with cim tandoori it looks similar to one of my faves vetrofond arancio perfecto and i can t wait to see how it differs from cim clockwork with which i wasn t terribly impressed why is it that the reds and oranges can t be truly transparent posted by carol tannahill at 9 45 pm no comments tuesday august 14 2012 pennsic xli every year i try to go to the big annual event held by the society for creative anachronism and i ve just returned i didn t take any pictures this year partially out of laziness and partially out of repetition people come from all over the world and hold competitions display their medieval style art sell an amazing variety of things eat drink and socialize this is a rather miserable picture taken at the opening ceremonies several years ago did i mention that over 10 000 people participate at some point or other in the two week event not including staff the campsite stretches over 2 miles we camp in groups defined by geography and friendship my group has at times been as large as 100 campers but is now down to about 60 one of the many reasons to go is for the shopping there are products specific to medieval reenactment that you just can t find anywhere else some of the shops are really great too these are not permanent structures they are assembled on trailer bases and disassembled afterward and packed up for the next year most merchants sell their wares out of tents and this is entirely appropriate for the time the event is modeled on a war the primary purpose is actually to see whether the east or the middle or the allies will win the martial competitions the reason for the vendors classes and restaurants called taverns is to support the war effort becoming a vendor is a complex process primarily you will be given a spot if you were there last year a few new merchants are accepted every year and that s why i m writing it doesn t matter if you sell handforged damascus steel blades or electric toothbrushes these observations might help first go where they want you if you ve been a vendor at a show before and it worked out for you go back sell what they want every show has its own market and how well you fit into it will determine whether you will be successful at this one artisans who handcraft authentic items using period techniques are favored artisans who create historic type items using modern techniques also get a bit of a boost there are plenty of people who sell t shirts and bumper stickers but if that s all you re planning on selling you re not likely to win one of the coveted new merchant spots have plenty of inventory you will not make any sales and you may not be asked back if you don t have enough inventory to cover the length of the event have help everyone has to eat and answer nature s call you are open a given number of hours and if you aren t there you will not do well sweeten the pot one of the most popular shopping days is wednesday s midnight madness the merchants start packing up friday and wednesday night stay open late to decrease the amount of stuff they re going to have to cart home some the popular ones offer special deals hours will be determined by the show but you can have special coupons for returning customers or on your facebook page make people want to look for you next year you ve got the most awesome items the show has ever seen but returning customer coupons and careful customer service will make people remember you every year i shop based on my memories of the previous year the merchant who carefully wrapped my pottery and gave me a nice reuseable waterproof shopping bag will be my friend next year finally don t forget to enjoy it posted by carol tannahill at 4 24 pm no comments labels sca shop friday august 3 2012 thank you notes i ve been streamlining shipping lately and am skimping where i shouldn t be namely the thank you note ideally it should be an individually written card lovingly enclosed and packaged with the order it should thank the customer remind them who they re shopping with and encourage them to come back i m of two minds i truly believe in my deepest of hearts that most of my customers toss them i ve seen a couple board posts with people lamenting the waste of paper and packaging on simple orders i can t skimp on packaging all it takes is one order arriving damaged and needing to be replaced and i m in the red promotion is a different story we ve all got business cards and enclose them in each order even with returning customers i keep business cards in a file on my desk with notes on them as to what i bought and if anything happened but i m not sure anyone else is this compulsive where does the thank you note fall in again this is something i have sent but stopped when i started seeing that the same people who i sent them to complained about wasteful shipping at the same time i just received one from a large supplier i placed a wholesale order with and i m rethinking the whole thing it was individually printed customized to what i ordered tasteful and shared what they did that made them different from the other places i might have gone there was an individual s name first and last their phone number not 800 but we re all on one price unlimited calling anyway and an invitation to call for any reason at all when i read it i was struck by the thought that someone actually cared i was planning on doing business with this company again anyway because they have great prices and their product arrived in good condition exactly as advertised and promptly i confess that the thank you note i received is tipping me more in their favor it was a wholesale order i m a small fish in a big pond a person with a last name gave me their phone number if i d like to discuss my order i m impressed what does this mean to me as a small business owner i m going to enclose a thank you card again i have them i might as well use them the ten seconds it takes me to write one out is priceless please let me know if you find this offensive or tedious i will flog an idea to death if you disagree i want to hear about it if you ve stumbled upon something that your customers find extra special please share it with me so i can steal the idea posted by carol tannahill at 9 40 pm 2 comments labels bs shop monday july 30 2012 ideas sometimes i don t torch for a while even as long as a couple days i ve been working on a couple custom orders and i like them because at least i know what i ll be making there are times when i feel like i need something different i m obsessed by rainbows and have been trying to get a bead that combines all the colors in order the problem lies in the fact that yellow and green next to each other on the spectrum form a black line where they touch the idea crossed my mind of doing wraps of color with a hair s breadth between them on a black or clear base and i still might do it but then i had one of my custom orders it was for a bead combining several transparent colors on a white core encased in clear i made the bead and went to bed the next morning lying half awake i remembered that transparent yellow and green don t react i had my solution and here s the result i wound up making it into a necklace for the same customer who gave me the idea in the first place the shape is very organic and i love it these beads are on the same idea with no clear encasement i never noticed with cim sangre and vetrofond arancio perfecto that they retain much more of their transparency if they re encased learn something new every day posted by carol tannahill at 5 30 pm no comments labels beads sunday july 29 2012 late night insanity apparently at 3am i decided that what i needed to make my life complete was a new bns a bns is a promotional treasury where you buy into one of the featured shops and in return get your shop featured and have people buy from you it s a great tool for exposure and while no one gets rich doing them the participants are wonderful supportive people and great gossips for some reason i decided that participating wasn t enough i needed to run one i m featured in over half a dozen of them at any given time but i wanted the whole enchilada so i set one up it should be harder than it is pick a bunch of shops and a theme usually color based i picked purple surprise and put it out there invite a whole bunch of people and welcome to the party here s the link to mine http www etsy com treasury ota5mzcwoxwynzizmte3mtm4 open fireinice bns bonus rounds its ref pr_treasury as far as glassy goodies go i m not sure how well the two will mix i ve already been dismayed by how much time i spend promoting vs making photographing and listing stuff and this isn t helping here are some of the new goodies i ve made i m not happy with my pictures lately i v been shooting indoors because outside isn t giving me true color i ve got to compensate especially the blue range red doesn t do well indoors as the beads below on a base of cim sangre prove i only wish i could capture the complexity of the dots and beauty of the beads they re a bit flat silver and gold are fine and i love the simple look of silver and gold just plain laid over glass easy to work with easy to wear easy to care for just either wear it or polish it like your other jewelry these were a bit of a let down i used up my last rods of effetre light aqua and wound up with beads that weren t the same size i m going on vacation soon and can t afford to order more glass so these pretties are relegated to the seconds section less than 1mm from perfection honestly i ought to have just kept them for myself and made earrings no one will notice a millimeter since my ears are more than a mm different anyway i could wear the smaller earring on the bigger ear and no one would know i don t know how people list new stuff day after day it is either promote what you ve got or make it i m having serious issues doing both which is why i was awake at 3am doing a treasury posted by carol tannahill at 5 46 pm no comments labels beads bs wednesday july 25 2012 getting sucked in i ve been very bad it s been a rough few weeks so i m going back to some comfortable music this one stands out both because it s a cool song and a cool video http www youtube com watch v 5roiw_xy kc feature relmfu posted by carol tannahill at 12 07 am no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me carol tannahill i like to dive into things head first and don t do anything by halves if i mess up it s a full blown disaster or nothing view my complete profile fire in ice lampwork fire in ice baubles followers networked blogs follow this blog fire in ice facebook badge fire in ice lampwork promote your page too pinterest twitter carolatfirenice loading blog archive 2012 39 august 4 for shannon technique pennsic xli thank you notes july 6 june 3 may 7 april 6 march 5 february 6 january 2 2011 73 december 6 november 1 october 4 september 9 august 8 july 6 june 14 may 13 april 12 2010 164 december 1 november 1 october 2 august 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