waiting

Obviously no one has posted for months, myself and a few others have admin. privileges but it just seems like unless I post it just fizzles out. I'm still waiting for the new guild features at Artfire to be established to really have the access to the members like I envisioned last year. But with all the growth and other issues at AF guild features are on the back burner. I'm hoping that sometime this year more momentum will be returned to the guilds and by then perhaps some of our members will feel like participating more.

I admit I've lost a lot of my own momentum as Guild Master this last 6 months. Especially since communication is so difficult and since my local plans have lost ground due to lack of artisan participation. I had wanted to plan more small indoor craft fairs but the small amount of arts that i had committed to them have dwindled away for various personal and professional reasons.

I now hesitate to plan anything with these venues since I can't guarantee that more than myself and 1 or 2 other artisans will show up! And this is down from a dozen just 6 months ago. We should be moving in the opposite direction now downwards. But if other artists can't or won't commit to these free venues then I just can't continue to make promises I personally can't fulfill.

Texas Artfire had originally been planned as a networking idea rather than an online promoting and contest guild but without others willing to network as well then I can't promise any growth.