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I'm Considering opening a Crafts Market.
Greetings:
I have been kind of hanging around here listening to all the talk of beads and lampwork and I have a question for the group. I have a building in a resort town on the North Coast of California. The building was a bar and dancehall for many years and I really do not have any interst in continuing as a bar. I was thinking of opening a crafts marketplace. Not one of those crafts places where they sell trinketsw for people to assemble into crafts for personal use but real craft items. Items that are hand wrought such as the beads you produce. I would also like to have live demonstrations of artisans practicing their crafts from time to time. This is not a scam and I am absolutely serious about opening up such a shop. I have about 3500 square feet and more available. The City jusrisdiction will not let me break it upinto individual shops because they claim it intensifies the use. The building is on the busiest corner in town and there are enough antique stores in the area already. If you have any suggestions I would really like to hear them. I myself work in wrought iron and glass. My background includes an undergraduate degree in vocational education with an emphasis on craft industries and my family for generations have been blacksmiths and artists. I wanted to trot this suggestion out here because you seem to be a lot more user friendly than some of the other groups on usenet: especially the glass group! Best regards, Charles |
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It sounds great. What town is it? That could make a difference.
I have been kind of hanging around here listening to all the talk of beads and lampwork and I have a question for the group. I have a building in a resort town on the North Coast of California. The building was a bar and dancehall for many years and I really do not have any interst in continuing as a bar. I was thinking of opening a crafts marketplace. Not one of those crafts places where they sell trinketsw for people to assemble into crafts for personal use but real craft items. Items that are hand wrought such as the beads you produce. I would also like to have live demonstrations of artisans practicing their crafts from time to time. This is not a scam and I am absolutely serious about opening up such a shop. I have about 3500 square feet and more available. The City jusrisdiction will not let me break it upinto individual shops because they claim it intensifies the use. The building is on the busiest corner in town and there are enough antique stores in the area already. If you have any suggestions I would really like to hear them. I myself work in wrought iron and glass. My background includes an undergraduate degree in vocational education with an emphasis on craft industries and my family for generations have been blacksmiths and artists. I wanted to trot this suggestion out here because you seem to be a lot more user friendly than some of the other groups on usenet: especially the glass group! Best regards, Charles ~~ Sooz |
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I wanted to trot this suggestion out here because
you seem to be a lot more user friendly than some of the other groups on usenet: especially the glass group! Though we can be bitches too. ~~ Sooz |
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We used to have a place in town that was a consignment co-op. Worked pretty
well. Could you get gov't money for it? For "hiring" people with disabilities, eg those physically prevented from standing a lot (as many crafters are)? Or for vocational/entrepreneurial retraining? It could be the difference between scraping by and doing well. Where are you at? Mendo? Tina "Charles A. Peavey" wrote in message ... Greetings: I have been kind of hanging around here listening to all the talk of beads and lampwork and I have a question for the group. I have a building in a resort town on the North Coast of California. The building was a bar and dancehall for many years and I really do not have any interst in continuing as a bar. I was thinking of opening a crafts marketplace. Not one of those crafts places where they sell trinketsw for people to assemble into crafts for personal use but real craft items. Items that are hand wrought such as the beads you produce. I would also like to have live demonstrations of artisans practicing their crafts from time to time. This is not a scam and I am absolutely serious about opening up such a shop. I have about 3500 square feet and more available. The City jusrisdiction will not let me break it upinto individual shops because they claim it intensifies the use. The building is on the busiest corner in town and there are enough antique stores in the area already. If you have any suggestions I would really like to hear them. I myself work in wrought iron and glass. My background includes an undergraduate degree in vocational education with an emphasis on craft industries and my family for generations have been blacksmiths and artists. I wanted to trot this suggestion out here because you seem to be a lot more user friendly than some of the other groups on usenet: especially the glass group! Best regards, Charles |
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I am in Mendocino County but in the City of Fort Bragg. Fort Bragg has
undergone tremendous economic and social conflict over the last several years and is quite a depressed area locally but this year the tourists are back in droves. I hadn't considered any outside money and I probably woldn't know how to even ask. I'm an old stodgy Yankee (from Maine) and have always gone at things alone. Out of school I originally trained in a major retail organization but things have changed so much. I am certainly looking for ideas and any help. Regards, Charles "Christina Peterson" wrote in message ... We used to have a place in town that was a consignment co-op. Worked pretty well. Could you get gov't money for it? For "hiring" people with disabilities, eg those physically prevented from standing a lot (as many crafters are)? Or for vocational/entrepreneurial retraining? It could be the difference between scraping by and doing well. Where are you at? Mendo? Tina "Charles A. Peavey" wrote in message ... Greetings: I have been kind of hanging around here listening to all the talk of beads and lampwork and I have a question for the group. I have a building in a resort town on the North Coast of California. The building was a bar and dancehall for many years and I really do not have any interst in continuing as a bar. I was thinking of opening a crafts marketplace. Not one of those crafts places where they sell trinketsw for people to assemble into crafts for personal use but real craft items. Items that are hand wrought such as the beads you produce. I would also like to have live demonstrations of artisans practicing their crafts from time to time. This is not a scam and I am absolutely serious about opening up such a shop. I have about 3500 square feet and more available. The City jusrisdiction will not let me break it upinto individual shops because they claim it intensifies the use. The building is on the busiest corner in town and there are enough antique stores in the area already. If you have any suggestions I would really like to hear them. I myself work in wrought iron and glass. My background includes an undergraduate degree in vocational education with an emphasis on craft industries and my family for generations have been blacksmiths and artists. I wanted to trot this suggestion out here because you seem to be a lot more user friendly than some of the other groups on usenet: especially the glass group! Best regards, Charles |
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I am in Mendocino County but in the City of Fort Bragg. Fort Bragg has
undergone tremendous economic and social conflict over the last several years and is quite a depressed area locally but this year the tourists are back in droves. You'd be stunned by how many of us know where that is. Some of us have even been there, many many many times! I hadn't considered any outside money and I probably woldn't know how to even ask. Small business administration comes to mind....pretty old and stodgy itself. Out of school I originally trained in a major retail organization but things have changed so much. I am certainly looking for ideas and any help. What kind of help, exactly? You'll have to be really specific to get any answers. If you don't know, then you need to do more research using the information that's already out there. Use google.com to start your search. Put it all on paper (or type it into your computer). That'd be a start. ~~ Sooz |
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snippity
I'm an old stodgy Yankee (from Maine) and have always gone at things alone. This caught my eye. If the craft business is what you're looking to go into..."alone" won't work anymore. Crafting is all about sharing. This is a _good_ thing, by the way ~Candace~ Orphan Beads Low cost and bartering for the financially challenged beader http://snipurl.com/6s4t |
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I'm an old stodgy Yankee (from Maine) and have always
gone at things alone. This caught my eye. If the craft business is what you're looking to go into..."alone" won't work anymore. Crafting is all about sharing. This is a _good_ thing, by the way That is a VERY good point. Going it alone won't work in the 21st century, even -- no matter what you do. Give it up! ~~ Sooz |
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It kills this girl from Massachusetts (a Mainiac wouldn't call me a
New Englander or a Yankee, because I'm from the Flatlands of Taxachusetts), but they are right. Crafting is defititely a group thing. Hard for us to admit, but sometimes those left coasters are right. Nah, sometimes they just make a lucky guess..... |
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Charles
open it as a GALLERY rather than a "craft shop" -- look for higher end design work - and take them on commission with the artists. this avoids the "breaking it up as separate shops" - and if you are in an antique area -- most likely you will have enough "walk-by" trade with money in their pockets. Sounds like an area where you might actually succeed.... Check out any galleries within a 50 mile radius of you - to get an idea of the market and artists.... good luck! Cheryl DRAGON BEADS Flameworked beads and glass http://www.dragonbeads.com/ |
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