My EART Team Business Wishlist: Kiln, “Gypsy” Wagon, a Million Dollars . . .

I’m participating in a “Blog Carnival” with my fellow Etsy EART (Eclectic Artisans Team), and the first topic is for us to write a wishlist of up to five things we want for our business this year. So here goes! I don’t have five wishes (unless you count making a million or so bucks selling my jewelry), so I’ll just start with the two at the top of my list.

1. I’d really like to have a kiln. Since I love to work with polymer clay, I’ve been dying to try precious metal clay as a new medium. You can use a torch to work with precious metal clay, but I’ve heard it’s better to have a kiln. I even have a picture of a nice small kiln magneted to my fridge in hopes it will magically appear. Ha! I could also fuse glass in a kiln, and that’s another medium I’d love to try. Ah, to make my own fused glass cabochons to wrap! That would be wonderful. I’ve bought a couple, and here’s a picture of one of them that I wrapped and sold last year at the Renaissance Fair in Santa Fe.

2. My husband and I have been talking about a wheeled display cart/kiosk of some kind, maybe something like a “Gypsy” wagon, to display my jewelry at shows and other venues where we might not use the tent. One day when we went to Coronado Mall in Albuquerque, we studied some of the cart/kiosks there and came up with some ideas. My overworked carpenter husband needs another project, don’t you think? And I’d love to paint my business name, Kell’s Creations, on it. So that might be in the works at some point. Maybe this year, maybe next. Who knows?

One thing I do know is that I spent too much money on things for the business in 2008, so I may just have to make do with what I already have. But a girl can dream, right? One of these days…