tuesday thoughts
Jill didn't come today so I stayed home from art group. I could have gone - Dave would have stayed with mom for me but after I got all the morning stuff done with her it just seemed too late to even go. Which was ok in the end. I went to my shed for a bit and was refreshed there. And after group Nancy and Kenyon stopped by here - nice. I spent the morning trying to get the homestead site builder to download to this new computer. I actually sold something at the WTS catalog website (very rare as I don't promote it at all) and I needed to update the site. Then I found with the slow internet speed I have I couldn't get the program for updates to load into this new computer. Baa! So I spent the morning downloading a zip file. And now I am downloading the winzip program so I can open it - another 4 hours of downloading - geesh... I hope it works after all this.
Someday - I dream of a day when I can:
1. Put in a certain amount of hours everyday handling business and marketing and make a profit. Update my website and etsy shop often.
2. Have a studio where I can have all my "arts" in the same place - jewelry working, ceramics, enameling, lampworking, bookmaking, papermaking, painting, mosaic.
3. After my work day is done I can feel good about having free time - read, watch movies, visit with people, hike, bike, go on photography jaunts.
As it is now my life is a jumble of caregiving, work, art time and free time and I don't know where one ends and where the other starts - sometimes I run around in circles here and get barely anything done except take care of mom. I feel a lot of guilt like I'm not doing enough in certain departments - not working hard enough - not even playing hard enough! Making jewelry is not the same as making money (though thankfully sometimes it is when I have word of mouth on my side). Generally though - marketing is making money. Marketing = the thing I resist.
Anyway - that's my say for today....
A bonus photo. Jan took this of me, Kenyon and Nancy last summer when we went to Ithaca - we were on the shuttle bus leaving the Corning Museum of Glass. Nancy noticed it on my shelf today, said she liked it - I like it too.
Someday - I dream of a day when I can:
1. Put in a certain amount of hours everyday handling business and marketing and make a profit. Update my website and etsy shop often.
2. Have a studio where I can have all my "arts" in the same place - jewelry working, ceramics, enameling, lampworking, bookmaking, papermaking, painting, mosaic.
3. After my work day is done I can feel good about having free time - read, watch movies, visit with people, hike, bike, go on photography jaunts.
As it is now my life is a jumble of caregiving, work, art time and free time and I don't know where one ends and where the other starts - sometimes I run around in circles here and get barely anything done except take care of mom. I feel a lot of guilt like I'm not doing enough in certain departments - not working hard enough - not even playing hard enough! Making jewelry is not the same as making money (though thankfully sometimes it is when I have word of mouth on my side). Generally though - marketing is making money. Marketing = the thing I resist.
Anyway - that's my say for today....
A bonus photo. Jan took this of me, Kenyon and Nancy last summer when we went to Ithaca - we were on the shuttle bus leaving the Corning Museum of Glass. Nancy noticed it on my shelf today, said she liked it - I like it too.