We SOLD OUT at Balingup Medieval Carnivale! 🐉 | Market Wrap Up + Sales Figures
Shoebox Studio Ceramics
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Balingup Medieval Carnivale 2026… what an absolutely wild weekend! 🐉
After around 2½ months of making, glazing, firing and preparing, we packed up the Hatchery and headed to Balingup — and somehow managed to sell out on the first day!
In this very chatty market wrap-up, Nat from Mud Magic joins me to talk about the weekend, what sold, what we learned, some of the wonderfully strange moments along the way, and of course… the numbers.
I share my actual sales figures in this video, as I usually do in my market wrap-ups. I know money can be a funny thing to talk about, but I believe there is value in being open about the business side of being a working ceramic artist. Please remember that every artist, market and audience is different, and these numbers aren't something anyone should use to measure their own success against. This was an extraordinary result that I'm still trying to wrap my head around!
More than anything, though, this weekend reminded me that none of this happens alone.
A massive thank you to Nat, Abbi, Mum, Paul, Dad and Greg for everything you did — from helping make and glaze things beforehand, decorating and setting up, running the stall, wrapping pottery, working the POS, chauffeuring, packing down and generally keeping me functioning when I was sick and absolutely exhausted. I genuinely couldn't have done Saturday without you.
And an enormous thank you to everyone who came to visit the Hatchery at Balingup. To those who adopted dragons, bought mugs, came back to see me again, stopped for a chat, or simply followed along with my slightly ridiculous Road to Balingup from home — thank you. The response to my work was beyond anything I could have imagined.
Balingup, you were incredible. ❤️🐉
There are still several Road to Balingup kiln openings coming too… because apparently actually making all this pottery got in the way of editing the videos about making all this pottery. 😂
Jane x
Shoebox Studio Ceramics
Inspired by fantasy. Forged in clay.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Balingup Medieval Carnivale Wrap Up
01:39 Nat's First Balingup Medieval Carnivale
03:10 Setting Up the Hatchery
05:31 Market Tip: Bring Your Own WiFi!
07:19 Saturday Begins... and It Gets CRAZY
11:08 The Dragons Sell Out
14:04 We Actually SOLD OUT
17:57 What Do You Do on Sunday When There's Nothing Left?
20:02 Finally Getting to See the Carnivale
24:34 Let's Talk Numbers – What Sold?
27:32 A Market Tip That Really Works
28:47 The Final Sales Figure 😳
30:47 What Else Sold?
33:02 The People Who Made This Possible ❤️
37:48 Balingup 2027?
38:52 Alpaca Shenanigans 😂
41:17 What Balingup Means for My US Trip
41:49 Weather, Crowds & Looking Ahead
42:59 How Long Did It Take to Make All This?!
44:56 Medieval Carnivale Outtakes
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20 Comments
So incredibly happy about your success… all that creativity and talent that you’re putting out into the world 🎉❤
I’m so sorry that you weren’t feeling well but glad that you had your family and Nat as your backup ❤
All I can say is yay, yay and yay …. I’m absolutely thrilled for you ❤
We SOLD OUT at Balingup Medieval Carnivale! 🐉 | Market Wrap Up + Sales Figures
Shoebox Studio Ceramics
1,564 views
Balingup Medieval Carnivale 2026… what an absolutely wild weekend! 🐉
After around 2½ months of making, glazing, firing and preparing, we packed up the Hatchery and headed to Balingup — and somehow managed to sell out on the first day!
In this very chatty market wrap-up, Nat from Mud Magic joins me to talk about the weekend, what sold, what we learned, some of the wonderfully strange moments along the way, and of course… the numbers.
I share my actual sales figures in this video, as I usually do in my market wrap-ups. I know money can be a funny thing to talk about, but I believe there is value in being open about the business side of being a working ceramic artist. Please remember that every artist, market and audience is different, and these numbers aren't something anyone should use to measure their own success against. This was an extraordinary result that I'm still trying to wrap my head around!
More than anything, though, this weekend reminded me that none of this happens alone.
A massive thank you to Nat, Abbi, Mum, Paul, Dad and Greg for everything you did — from helping make and glaze things beforehand, decorating and setting up, running the stall, wrapping pottery, working the POS, chauffeuring, packing down and generally keeping me functioning when I was sick and absolutely exhausted. I genuinely couldn't have done Saturday without you.
And an enormous thank you to everyone who came to visit the Hatchery at Balingup. To those who adopted dragons, bought mugs, came back to see me again, stopped for a chat, or simply followed along with my slightly ridiculous Road to Balingup from home — thank you. The response to my work was beyond anything I could have imagined.
Balingup, you were incredible. ❤️🐉
There are still several Road to Balingup kiln openings coming too… because apparently actually making all this pottery got in the way of editing the videos about making all this pottery. 😂
Jane x
Shoebox Studio Ceramics
Inspired by fantasy. Forged in clay.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Balingup Medieval Carnivale Wrap Up
01:39 Nat's First Balingup Medieval Carnivale
03:10 Setting Up the Hatchery
05:31 Market Tip: Bring Your Own WiFi!
07:19 Saturday Begins... and It Gets CRAZY
11:08 The Dragons Sell Out
14:04 We Actually SOLD OUT
17:57 What Do You Do on Sunday When There's Nothing Left?
20:02 Finally Getting to See the Carnivale
24:34 Let's Talk Numbers – What Sold?
27:32 A Market Tip That Really Works
28:47 The Final Sales Figure 😳
30:47 What Else Sold?
33:02 The People Who Made This Possible ❤️
37:48 Balingup 2027?
38:52 Alpaca Shenanigans 😂
41:17 What Balingup Means for My US Trip
41:49 Weather, Crowds & Looking Ahead
42:59 How Long Did It Take to Make All This?!
44:56 Medieval Carnivale Outtakes
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I am still completely blown away by Balingup and incredibly grateful to everyone who made this weekend what it was.
For my fellow makers — I know a lot of you watch these wrap-ups for the business side as well as the pottery, so I'd love to know: do you find it helpful when I share the actual sales figures and product breakdowns?
And for everyone else… what would YOU have adopted from the Hatchery before it all disappeared? 😂
Thank you so much for following along with the Road to Balingup. ❤