The Carolina Pottery Festival has come and gone, so now the focus is on getting ready for Christmas. Yes. I said it. The C-word uttered before Thanksgiving. Normally I have a very strict rule of no thinking about Christmas until after Thanksgiving. However, I'm learning that one must think WAY ahead when one needs to sell things.
The Holiday Open House at Buffalo Creek Gallery is Thursday night from 5 to 8 pm. There will be food. There will be drinks. There will be art. There will be artists. Everyone is invited to drop by. In fact, you should make plans now. Come to the gallery after work. Do a little shopping. Then have dinner at one of the many yummy places to eat in beautiful uptown Shelby.
As you shop this holiday season, I encourage you to remember this:
"When you buy from an independent artist you are buying more than just a painting or a novel or a song. You are buying hundreds of hours of experimentation and thousands of failures. You are buying days, weeks, months, years of frustration and moments of pure joy. You are buying nights of worry about paying the rent, having enough money to eat, having enough money to feed the children, the birds, …the dog. You aren’t just buying a thing - you are buying a piece of heart, part of a soul, a private moment in someone’s life. Most importantly, you are buying that artist more time to do something they are truly passionate about; something that makes all of the above worth the fear and doubt; something that puts the life into living.” - Rebekah Joy Plett
I took some more pottery to the gallery this morning so that there would be plenty of work on my shelves for the Open House Thursday night. See how full those shelves are? Lots of pots!
And one close up. This fish platter is pretty different from anything that I've done before, so it deserves to be highlighted.
