Thursday, June 25, 2009

Awake and Chastised, Though Not Chastened

After being slapped around a bit by Nancy Goodenough ( ;-), I went back to my email and found the aforementioned survey *sent June 19*. In my defense, that was the first full day of BE-Con and reading email from ACRE with a subject line "ACRE Las Vegas Artist Survey" was something that I felt could be safely triaged till my return to Atlanta, i.e., I didn't read it then. Had the subject been "Proposed date for ACRE 2010, your input requested" or some such, you can be sure I would have read it. I *did* read Nancy V.'s email "A message from Nancy Vince, President, Wholesalecrafts.com" that came on 6/8 announcing that the survey would come out later in the month and they wanted our input--no hint of a date change there either. As to reading the boards, I don't, unless Dee gives me a heads up that I need to as she knows what a turtle I am.

Final thought, even with the back story and the survey, worrying about what Wendy Rosen is going to do in Vegas is a futile endeavor--it's like an artist obsessing about having their work copied in China. NOT that I'm comparing Wendy Rosen to China!

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey, that was no slap. It was a love bite. No, not a bite. Just back story. I figured your brain was occupied with good stuff and would later want to know what had happened.

Make good glass. And ask for another week to decide. WSC people are pretty responsive.
Nancy

Dee said...

and yes turtle, a little background reading when you're lounging around back here in hotlanta will fill you in. and i sent you an email this am...

turtle prodder ;)

Anonymous said...

Those of us who did bead shows know what can happen when show producers start following successful shows around the country. Ask anyone from the mid'90s about the back-to-back weekend bead shows in Texas. We all had to do both to hold our places, and each show brought half the revenue of the previous year.

I wouldn't mind both ACRE and BMAC at the same time in Las Vegas along with JCK, Couture, gem show. Works for Tucson in February with about 40 concurrent shows. Or did for decades!

Glass on.
Nancy Goodenough

Dee said...

lol nancy, remember it isn't working now, that's why you and sara dropped out ;P but in this case maybe it will work to our advantage as far as getting more buyers to attend. there's still a problem with june delivery...

D

Brenda Griffith said...

I know it was a gentle nibble--not a slap. I am just still annoyed at the whole timing thing. The June dates overlap both Jessie's last week of school and end of the year assembly and my birthday--neither of which I want to be away from my family during. Dammit, even artists deserve a Real Life!

Bill said...

Since when does anyone "deserve" anything???

Anonymous said...

I think Tucson got hurt by both the economy and 6 concurrent bead shows was a bit much. Two fine craft shows hooking onto fine jewelry and gems shows makes some sense to me.

I just finished my Rosen orders when the late May ACRE show came. And,yes, all but one ACRE order was ASAP/whenever and those will be done in a few weeks.

Nancy Goodenough