Phoenix Ceramics
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Phoenix Ceramics
Congrats to Sherry, gpw`s wife and her co-owner Vicki Dodd on their enterprise called Phoenix Ceramics, 384-7411 Avenue P and 29th street Saskatoon. Their story is in the Saskatoon Sun paper on March 5, 2006. 
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The business is slow. Hobby businesses go in cycles. She has been at it a long time and now there is only 4 ceramic shops left in the province. The one in North Battleford is retiring and the same for the one in Turtleford. My wife has bought a few thousand on molds from them. Her business has picked up due to the shortage of ceramic places. I believe it will help her.
The one in Engelfeld is talking of closing also. She put her kids through university and now wants to retire, so that would be 3. Those 3 are all in Saskatoon. Sherry's does the best customer service and hours than the others.
Thanks for the post Fom.
The one in Engelfeld is talking of closing also. She put her kids through university and now wants to retire, so that would be 3. Those 3 are all in Saskatoon. Sherry's does the best customer service and hours than the others.
Thanks for the post Fom.
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Thanks for the post Fom.
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You Know I see her business as a success already. It may not be financially, but the success is that she loves doing that stuff. she will by stuff just to paint it, and not keep it, but give it away. Success is the joy of doing something you enjoy doing and loving the time doing it.
So I see how it makes her happy, then it is successful.
So I see how it makes her happy, then it is successful.
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To me the success is not in how much money or financial gain she makes at her business. It is how much she loves doing the work at the business. The financial part does stress her, and she does not like having no real coin in her pocket, but what she does is good for her mentally. Like how it is when we are toying with our trucks and how we love to show them off and add new things to them or impove them. We never get back what we finanacially put into them, but the joy playing with them and sharing them with others to see or help us.
My wife makes enough to pay the shops bills and that is all for now. I have notice that it is starting to have more cash from month to month. At the end of some months she has a few hundred saved for next months rent or supplies.
My wife makes enough to pay the shops bills and that is all for now. I have notice that it is starting to have more cash from month to month. At the end of some months she has a few hundred saved for next months rent or supplies.
But this empties our pockets faster though!