I flew up from WPB for the 2023 Winter Show to see in person if it was worth the effort to try to get in the 2024 Show as a vendor.I was told that vendor applications were going to be emailed out in the first week or two of Jan 2024 on a first come first serve basis. About the middle of Dec I got a email stating the Vendor Application was full in One Day?!?!? My girlfriend and I have been Vendors selling my stoneware bonsai pottery at the Bonsai Societies of Florida Convention in Orlando at the Florida Hotel over the Memorial Holiday at the end of May for the last seven years, the Convention was cancelled one year during the Covid outbreak. The BSF Convention gives returning vendors priority over new vendors and a discounted Table and Room price. There is way more than ample room for the various workshops, Main Bonsai Tree display, Club Tree Display, Vendor Sales Room......It is indeed a World Class Act overall. The Kannopolis Show was also a class Act overall, the small Vendor Rooms were elbow to elbow at times, I got a couple really good deals Sunday when vendors were packing up, two nice JBPs and a Sonny Boggs pot! In the Bonsai Display area there were several World Class Trees, some mediocre. A Juried Submission Process might elevate the quality of Display Trees, can't hurt. At this moment I am firing a C10 kiln full of 22 pots, unload Monday morning, fire another 3 dozen C10 and Thursday a c5 firing of black pots getting ready for the Convention in 5 weeks! I'm selling for a friend about a dozen 1970 Tokoname pots some still in boxes from Jupiter Bonsai.
