Know of the daily life of the artisans that elaborate beautiful crafts of excellent quality.

Mrs. Argentina del Carmen Gutiérrez is 35 years old and has 15 years of elaborating crafts in clay. When marrying, her husband and her sister-in-laws taught her how to elaborate crafts in clay, in that way begins the small micro-company with which counts at the moment.

Besides being the boss of family of 5, she also administers the micro-company since she is separated of her husband. And she has to manage them to organize the activities of the home and to direct the small shop. She is mainly in the charge in the design of the productive process, drawn of the piece, burnt of the pieces and also she takes charge of the commercialization of the products.

Mrs. Argentina tells us that for the before mentioned, she has to get up every day at 5 in the morning, to prepare the food for the children that go to morning school, when ending she prepares to begin the activities of the company: buy the raw matters if some of them have ended (clay, firewood, colors among other), to continue the process of production of an order or to begin a new one, another of the activities is the search of workers to subcontract them when she has a big order, so she can be able to fulfill the client.

She leans on two of her children, her 17 year-old daughter, the olddest one, helps her with the house keeping and later on with the production, the same as her 16 year-old son, the 2nd one; he only can helps in the morning because in the afternoon he has to go to class to finish the high shool, he helps with the "engobado" (to apply fine mud by layers) and fine ending of the pieces. This humble but very venturesome woman tells us: "to my children I have taught them the occupation and today I already have fruits because the production has increased to count with almost two workers at half time, my son is learning how to lathe piece so that the money stays at home, because the one that used to lathe was my ex-husband."

Mrs. Argentina is beneficiary of the Program of Development to the small Company from Nitlapán - UCA, she receives managerial trainings, consultantships and export part of craft that takes place through the Comercializadora "The Güegüense". However some of their dreams are: "To end up maintaining a level of stable production during the whole year", I would like that the comercializadora carries out the order mainly in the months of little demand May, June, July, August, September, October and November, although the last three improve a little bit."

Other of the dreams of Mrs. Argentina is to be able to improve the infrastructure of their shop, she tells us that with the three orders elaborated and exported for Utah and Seattle through the comercializadora The Güegüense, she bought a torneta (similar to the lathe but with small dimensions, it is used in table) the one that helps to speed up the work and to improve the quality of the products.