What Price?
Posted By Kathleen David on August 8, 2004
We have had the kiss of fall this weekend. The temperature has been very nice with the addition of a nice breeze off of the water. We took Caroline to a playground near the house where she played for over an hour going up and down slides, swinging on the swings, and running around the park. If the weather continues to be this nice, I am taking her back down there this afternoon.
There has been a discussion on one of the puppetry boards recently about what price puppets or what price we might charge for our work. This is a discussion I read with great interest because I have had people balk when I tell them how much a puppet costs. One of the participants said that she stopped making puppets in favor of dolls since she could charge what she thought reasonable for the work she did which she never could get when she was trying to sell puppets. She makes art dolls now and several galleries carry her work. She still makes puppets for her and the company she owns with her husband. I have made puppets for a number of theater over the years. I usually charge materials cost and some for labor. I don
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