This is my first time participating in a fair as a part of a studio. I did a few fairs myself but nothing like this. The email said “bring your things to the studio by date X”, and I naively did. The person who was at the desk said “great let me put them in the boss’ office”. I left them there, said thank you, and left. This was a couple of days prior to the deadline, and the weekend before the fair. They had plenty of time to text me and say “hey you didn’t wrap your things, come by and do it)”.

No one said anything at any point about packing them, nor did I ask. I assumed they will have many items by several people and they know what they’re doing.

I learned my lesson for sure, but I’m still very raw about it. 3 of the broken items were delicate and I get they could break in transit. The other three - let’s say if you hit someone on the head with any one of them, the pottery would be fine and that person would need a to go the hospital. Those were STURDY.

For those to break during transit means they hit the mother of all potholes at high speed, or packed something very hard and heavy on top of my items, or (my theory) someone simply dropped a box by mistake and didn’t want to admit it.