Busy morning at Glass Xpressions today. Everyone was still flat out organising deliveries when I get there and Sean was putting a third sheet of glass into a kiln to slump into a sign for a local real estate agent. The previous two had not turned out successfully and the sign is required for the new office opening next monday - so this one has to work!
I spent more than half of the morning with Cathy, the accounts person, checking details for the workshop we are organising for the first weekend in May.
I was very concerned this morning when I discovered that I didn't have a confirmation for the flight I had booked to get our artist from Canberra up here to the Gold Coast. After checking the credit card statement and making a couple of phone calls to Virgin Blue we finally found that the flight was booked (phew!) but they just hadn't emailed the confirmation for some reason! Still, it's all confirmed now and bookings are now being made by those attending the demonstration - I have spent a lot of time this week answering enquiries and making sure that everyone has the payment details - it looks like we should have a good crowd for on the day.I have also been putting in a proposal to Ausglass for some funding for the event. This was approved at the last meeting, so we have got some money to put towards the fee for our artist.
Once we had all got our admin stuff sorted out, we didn't have much time left, so instead of doing our wax models we had a meeting to discuss the technical aspects a design that Lisa has come up with for a work that she would like to make and enter into the Ranamok Glass Art Prize competition this year. It would be a very challenging piece of slumped glass as it is large, and fixing it into a base will be difficult. By the end of the meeting we were all agreed that it will have to be designed around a steel rod supporting structure and Lisa is aiming to make a float glass mock up for us to have a look at by next week.
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