Once you chat up the people at the Food Court, do you have a convenient place to send them to follow up? That is the achilles heel of the publicity effort. Once they show an interest you say, "there will be classes starting up nine months from now, call the whatever adult school in September and ask them what church it will be meeting in." Or alternatively, we used to have a lace teacher, but she got a job, let's call her up and see if she wants to do it again..." Or even, "we have a lace day once a year, in November. You could take a beginner class for 6 hours then." It would be different if, like jewelry, there was a bead store on every corner and they were stimulating sales by having classes all the time. I like the blog idea though. My 20 year old daughter was lured by a $500 prize to enter a contest, open only to students, held by the Textile Study Group of New York, which is a very artistic and accomplished group. (Been meaning to infiltrate them, but haven't gotten around to it.) She didn't win the contest, but received a free membership and attended a meeting, even though she is going to school in a different state. She was very honored to receive the free membership. I thought it showed a lot of smarts on the part of the Textile Study Group. _http://www.tsgny.org/_ (http://www.tsgny.org/) Devon
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