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HI all,

I'm in the process of moving my studio some 300 miles, from my home in the Midlands UK to a harbourside village in South Cornwall. Lease contracts got signed yesterday and we aquire the premises on Saturday. There is a lot of work to be done, before we can open to the public, we are setting up an open plan pottery with a store up front so people can view the whole process and hopefully buy.

After 5 years of planning, and a lot of footwork around the other potters in the area, we are safe in the knowledge that there will be no other pottery in the area like it!

Once we have the website up and running (which may take a little while, as our priority is setting up the workshop at the moment), I'll post the link. Toying with the idea of a webcam link!

I'm having severe jitters, at the moment, as I am a wife and mother of two adorable children, and will be temporarily moving away from them for the first 6 months of the tourist season. They will visit me of course, but I'm going to miss them terribly. Not wanting to 'burn any bridges' we are not selling up home till we know that this is going to work.

Once I get the internet set up, I'll post with updates to let all know how it is going.

So all, please wish me luck - I'm gonna need it!

JM

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J M
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Good Luck Girl, Hope to see you in Kernow this summer Hugs Eddie

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Eddie Daughton

Good luck, I think the shop/gallery and pottery combined work well. I have visited a few around NZ like that. In fact I loved watching a glass blower work in a set up like that, something that I knew almost nothing about, my family had to drag me away, and for most people watching a potter at work is very similar. I think hand made pottery is becoming more desirable to the general public again, so I am sure you will do well. A

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Annemarie

The BEST of Luck! Can't wait to hear how you are doing and getting to see you site (web cam would be absolutely wonderful!). I really like how you describe it and it strikes me as ideal for bring in the tourist and once you do that and they have a fun experience of seeing the work in process they can't help but buy a memento. Brilliant!

Hope to hear from you soon. Donna

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DKat

Thanks for all the good wishes folks.....Things are still problematic and up in the air for Saturday....the landlord has decided to go on holiday and they haven't completed THEIR work on the building.....arrgh. We only have next week in which to get a ceiling up, upstairs floor laid, water and loo facilities installed, walls knocked down, guttering fixed and a complete whitewash - thats our work before we can make ready for the studio and pottery. They still have to install doors and windows (and have been told that wont happen for another 4 weeks) and the water wont be connected for another 10 days!!! Our solicitor is pulling his hair out. I suppose these delays are indicative of the kind of lifestyle we're moving down there for - it's just that us folk in the 'rat race' aren't used to it.

Eddie - are you located in Cornwall or do you go there for your holidays?

I'll write again on Friday!

Love JM

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J M

GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How exciting,look forward to hearing how its all going. sam.

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samdillo

Hi All. Finally got the paperwork sorted and the 300 mile treck early hours tomorrow to start work on the unit. Many tearful farewells to the family as I won't be seeing them till the Autumn (except for a brief period of a couple of days when I return back to pack the machinery and so forth).

I'm excited in one respect, but anxious that we are entering into something which we don't know whether it will work. 5 years of planning has now excallated into one week of sheer hell and upheaval and I can't believe that it is finally happening. It'll hit me when I get there - I suppose.

Many have said that one can't earn a living from pottery, but I'm going to give it a go (if it'll work anywhere in the country - that's where it will).

Got loads to do now - will come back on later and see if there are any new messages, got friends coming over to see me before I go! Arrgh, at a time when I need to pack - never mind.

Lots of love JM

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J M

i like the web cam idea! but a warning. don't have the cam on you. people will know "you're in the chair" or "elsewhere". this generally would not be a safe business practice. for information & general interest, have the webcam on an inventory shelf or some other place where work in process can be seen & monitored. the shelf fills up, pots are added. new designs can be spotted. "more of my favorite pots" are coming along ~ or not.

write up a business plan. don't get into a trap of too many products & too many colors. the matrix will be large & your inventory will be large. they sell business plan software for around $40 now. the steps to write up a plan will help you see elements of youer buisness you already thought of, and elements you haven't thought of. $40 is a cheap class. ~ take the class!

i've seen some racking ideas that are useful - they get into more of the volume of a room then just the planin level of a room. you'll need to rack your inventory for display & for slow periods when you just need to pile up pots. have a floor plan & display plan that lends itself to holding lots of inventory down to little without looking like you are overstocked or wiped out in inventory...

see ya

steve

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slgraber

Hello Good luck with your venture...you might like to consider joining the Cornwall Ceramics and Glass Group I build their website for them

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sadly no planning permission to sell direct to public.All good wishes Andy

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