Almost Show Time

7/11/08

A week from today our “business year” for 2008 officially starts when we appear at our first art show of the year. This one is a local one, just an hour away in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The week until the show will be HECTIC!

Even though it has been more than seven months since our last show, we are still short of inventory for many items we want to bring so there is the big push to make more stock, PLUS, we have to find all the paraphernalia needed to set up an attractive and storm proof booth. Rocky Mountain thunderstorms can demolish lesser booths and wipe out months of production and thousands of dollars of work in a few minutes. We’re also hoping to find time to make some needed improvements to our booth and the way we display things in it.

Being artists, we’re still having fun creating new designs, so choosing whether to put more time into them or into older more proven sellers is a bit of guess work and usually ends up being just more long hours as we try to do both.

Here’s a very cue new idea we just finished yesterday. The very attractive printed leather on the front is something we picked up in New York a few years ago and we just never found the right use for it- until yesterday! Its funny how things that look so obvious once discovered can remain hidden for so long.

Now that our son Evan is back from his Alaska adventure trip, he’s working on our new website and we want to work closely with him to get it done by show time next week too.