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Short hiatus in posting there 'cause I was visiting some friends from school for the past five days. One of them started school again today, and since I hadn't seem them for months (and hadn't taken ANY time off all summer) I decided to fly down. I'm glad I did; I always have such a good time with them even when we're just sitting on the couch watching movies and (hour after hour of) X-Men (the awesome version from the nineties with Gambit).
T-chan drew characters from her new/old revamped story and I taught codenamepolaris crochet basics and I worked on the first chapter of the Icarus story (which can go eat a dick).
Also. I got invited through etsy to take part in a craft fair at one of the high schools in the district (probably they were searching for local shops and landed on me). I don't know if I want to do it or not. I guess it would be kind of neat, and maybe I could make some money, but it's a $65 buy in with no guarantee that I'd make any of that money back, and also I don't exactly have an inventory at the moment (I make all the items currently in the shop to order, to avoid having a bunch of crochet stuff just lying around taking up space), so I'd have to make all the Things for the fair (which is on November 10) in the next two months.
I did some maths last night--and I suck at maths, so I could be wrong, but it looks like there's roughly 136 Things of various sizes and complexity to make. But. If I sell every Thing, and not counting the $65 vendor fee or cost of supplies, I could make around $800. If I only sell half the inventory, it's still $400 that I do not currently have.
So. I dunno what I wanna do. I don't want to commit $65 (non-refundable) and then not be able to make all the Things, and I don't wanna spend all that time making Things and then not sell enough of them to make my money back. I guess it's a gamble. And gambling with money makes me really uncomfortable.
Anyway, I've given myself until Friday to decide. I'm gonna talk to my mom (who will probably want me to do it) and a friend at work who also crochets to sell on etsy, see if she's ever done craft fairs and if she thinks $65 is high for a vendors fee (because it seems high to me).
I bought another Kevin Smith book (because I can't help myself), "My Boring-Ass Life: the Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith," which is literally a day-to-day diary of his daily life over the course of a few years during which he makes and releases Clerks II, sees Jason Mewes (Jay of Jay and Silent Bob) through his addiction, and do some acting gigs.
I'm in the middle of summer 2005, at the moment, when he was working on a flick called "Catch and Release" (which we have a copy of at the library and I now might have to check out). So far he's managed to make me laugh quite a bit, coo over how much he loves his wife and kid, and bawl like a kid when he talked about the two-year anniversary of his father's death, which he'd touched on a bit in the "Touch Sh*t" book as well.
100Things post and more "Confessions" to follow, probably tomorrow.
Edit: I asked a lady at work who also sells on etsy if she knew anything about craft fairs, and she said she'd get a table with me, which cuts the buy in cost and the pressure on me to fill a 10X10 space all by myself. We might get another lady at the library to join in as well, so I guess I better get to work making stuff.
Short hiatus in posting there 'cause I was visiting some friends from school for the past five days. One of them started school again today, and since I hadn't seem them for months (and hadn't taken ANY time off all summer) I decided to fly down. I'm glad I did; I always have such a good time with them even when we're just sitting on the couch watching movies and (hour after hour of) X-Men (the awesome version from the nineties with Gambit).
T-chan drew characters from her new/old revamped story and I taught codenamepolaris crochet basics and I worked on the first chapter of the Icarus story (which can go eat a dick).
Also. I got invited through etsy to take part in a craft fair at one of the high schools in the district (probably they were searching for local shops and landed on me). I don't know if I want to do it or not. I guess it would be kind of neat, and maybe I could make some money, but it's a $65 buy in with no guarantee that I'd make any of that money back, and also I don't exactly have an inventory at the moment (I make all the items currently in the shop to order, to avoid having a bunch of crochet stuff just lying around taking up space), so I'd have to make all the Things for the fair (which is on November 10) in the next two months.
I did some maths last night--and I suck at maths, so I could be wrong, but it looks like there's roughly 136 Things of various sizes and complexity to make. But. If I sell every Thing, and not counting the $65 vendor fee or cost of supplies, I could make around $800. If I only sell half the inventory, it's still $400 that I do not currently have.
So. I dunno what I wanna do. I don't want to commit $65 (non-refundable) and then not be able to make all the Things, and I don't wanna spend all that time making Things and then not sell enough of them to make my money back. I guess it's a gamble. And gambling with money makes me really uncomfortable.
Anyway, I've given myself until Friday to decide. I'm gonna talk to my mom (who will probably want me to do it) and a friend at work who also crochets to sell on etsy, see if she's ever done craft fairs and if she thinks $65 is high for a vendors fee (because it seems high to me).
I bought another Kevin Smith book (because I can't help myself), "My Boring-Ass Life: the Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith," which is literally a day-to-day diary of his daily life over the course of a few years during which he makes and releases Clerks II, sees Jason Mewes (Jay of Jay and Silent Bob) through his addiction, and do some acting gigs.
I'm in the middle of summer 2005, at the moment, when he was working on a flick called "Catch and Release" (which we have a copy of at the library and I now might have to check out). So far he's managed to make me laugh quite a bit, coo over how much he loves his wife and kid, and bawl like a kid when he talked about the two-year anniversary of his father's death, which he'd touched on a bit in the "Touch Sh*t" book as well.
100Things post and more "Confessions" to follow, probably tomorrow.
Edit: I asked a lady at work who also sells on etsy if she knew anything about craft fairs, and she said she'd get a table with me, which cuts the buy in cost and the pressure on me to fill a 10X10 space all by myself. We might get another lady at the library to join in as well, so I guess I better get to work making stuff.