This weekend was Potlatch. The weekend I had been looking forward to for months.
And the weekend did NOT disappoint!
Other than leaving much later than we had hoped, and having a mix up at the hotel, we had a perfect weekend.
I finished the second Vogel late Friday night, Chloe priced all the puppet hands and we all went to bed. We woke early Saturday, cleared out all the unnecessary stuff we had needed the night before to finish Vogel, changed rooms from our Friday night room to our Saturday night room and then went to our 9:30 workshops.
Mine was the country mouse and the city mouse, how to make them and to perform the show. Stephanie's was music and sound for your performances. Mine completed early, so I went over to Rod Puppets. Another interesting one. My next workshop was on hand puppet manipulation. It was excellent. I learned so much about the workings of hand puppets and the construction of them. Not just from this workshop but also from a young guy who creates hand puppets himself. He helped me to understand my problems with my own construction and ways to improve my puppets. Absolutely invaluable to me.
The break between the workshops and the Store was for setting up, if you were selling. Which, of course, we were.
We set up our table. Almost immediately a young boy, perhaps 10 or 11, came up to the display holding the two finished Vogels. I told him we weren't taking them down yet as the sale hasn't started yet. He said, "Oh. Okay." And stood there patiently, waiting.
I couldn't stand that so I just took one Vogel down and began working her. I hadn't had a chance to play with her at all because I finished stringing her so late ...The young man didn't seem to mind. I asked him if he would like to try her and he was thrilled to get her! He worked Vogel like a pro! And he wanted to buy her.
I knew he couldn't afford her. Steph was in charge of pricing so I sent him to her and played with the other Vogel.
He came back to me and said he would like to buy 'em. I said they were pretty expensive and he said that was okay. I asked Stephanie how much they were and she said $100. The young man was cool with it. I asked him if he was there with his mom or dad and shouldn't he talk to them before he buys a puppet for 100 dollars...And his mom walks up.
She asks him if he's sure this is what he wants, and he's adamant that Vogel is his puppet choice. So, with his moms approval I told him that would be a hundred dollars and which one did he want. He said he wanted both of them.
And I went stupid. I gaped at him and couldn't form words...I looked at his mom and she nodded again.
Stephanie told me I needed to sit down, so I did. I REALLY couldn't get any words out of my mouth.
So he bought both of them and I was thrilled. The best part of was seeing him with a large crowd around him playing with Vogel.
That was magical!
And the weekend did NOT disappoint!
Other than leaving much later than we had hoped, and having a mix up at the hotel, we had a perfect weekend.
I finished the second Vogel late Friday night, Chloe priced all the puppet hands and we all went to bed. We woke early Saturday, cleared out all the unnecessary stuff we had needed the night before to finish Vogel, changed rooms from our Friday night room to our Saturday night room and then went to our 9:30 workshops.
Mine was the country mouse and the city mouse, how to make them and to perform the show. Stephanie's was music and sound for your performances. Mine completed early, so I went over to Rod Puppets. Another interesting one. My next workshop was on hand puppet manipulation. It was excellent. I learned so much about the workings of hand puppets and the construction of them. Not just from this workshop but also from a young guy who creates hand puppets himself. He helped me to understand my problems with my own construction and ways to improve my puppets. Absolutely invaluable to me.
The break between the workshops and the Store was for setting up, if you were selling. Which, of course, we were.
We set up our table. Almost immediately a young boy, perhaps 10 or 11, came up to the display holding the two finished Vogels. I told him we weren't taking them down yet as the sale hasn't started yet. He said, "Oh. Okay." And stood there patiently, waiting.
I couldn't stand that so I just took one Vogel down and began working her. I hadn't had a chance to play with her at all because I finished stringing her so late ...The young man didn't seem to mind. I asked him if he would like to try her and he was thrilled to get her! He worked Vogel like a pro! And he wanted to buy her.
I knew he couldn't afford her. Steph was in charge of pricing so I sent him to her and played with the other Vogel.
He came back to me and said he would like to buy 'em. I said they were pretty expensive and he said that was okay. I asked Stephanie how much they were and she said $100. The young man was cool with it. I asked him if he was there with his mom or dad and shouldn't he talk to them before he buys a puppet for 100 dollars...And his mom walks up.
She asks him if he's sure this is what he wants, and he's adamant that Vogel is his puppet choice. So, with his moms approval I told him that would be a hundred dollars and which one did he want. He said he wanted both of them.
And I went stupid. I gaped at him and couldn't form words...I looked at his mom and she nodded again.
Stephanie told me I needed to sit down, so I did. I REALLY couldn't get any words out of my mouth.
So he bought both of them and I was thrilled. The best part of was seeing him with a large crowd around him playing with Vogel.
That was magical!