So today my new business cards arrived 4 days early, this time the careful proof checking meant no typos unlike last time. Tomorrow I will start to sort out ready for recycling marketing materials for The Courtyard Studio which will be out of date in 26 days time. This afternoon I have designed and ordered …
So today is a rest day / day off from the shop, the next fortnight I will be back to four days of shop and art. This morning we were in town and went down to see new place and took picture of the front to post on social media as building awareness this month …
So today I updated the signs in my front and back windows in The Courtyard Studio about the new shop. I spoke with some other businesses in the courtyard making sure all are aware of the move. I checked my square business card which has proved very popular and identified details that needed to change …
I completed a postcard today of two divers waiting to go below Swanage pier. I started a second card of local fishing boats before going out on angling trips. Sold 14 greeting cards, some postcards, an original postcard and three prints – a good day of sales despite spending a lot of the day without …
So another shop day and just focusing on my work, my time and making more art. Last nights thunderstorms meant a very humid start to the day and Anne came to the shop with me so a careful descent of the hill from home. So as Anne had the wheelchair to get around we kept …
Another very hot day with lots of shop ventilation. Again I stayed in the shop, drank lots of water and stayed hydrated. Art for fun – .so a friend came during her day off to do some Art for fun. Amazing drawing skills based on a picture on her phone. A. coped well when I …
The momentous ‘freedom day’ when to be honest I think most businesses continued their covid safeguards due to rising cases locally. I had planned and used the day to relaunch ‘art for fun’ one of my key principles behind the shop premises in November 2019. Last time it ran until March 2020 and the first …
I consider this an essential business skill whether it be verbal or written, letter or email, honest or measured. It has been for a long time now, ie about March 2020 the biggest fault line in the business connection between myself and my fellow business premises cotenant. I have been very open about my mental …
Another quiet day for sales, it is what it is. I had quite a few good chats with visitors about various aspects of art including telling some about Art for fun restarting on Monday from 10 – based on the last two days I need an earlier night on Sunday and an early arrival at …
Today a visitor came into the shop who had received the original drawing of “Sailing from Chapmans Pool” as an engagement present from her parents. They bought it during PAW 2018 from my Open Studio because the proposal had been on the stone bench at the St Aldhelm’s end of the valley of steps between …