My much needed supply order of shiny stuff came in, which means very shortly I will be getting started on everyones commissions. However, please note that I have a convention to prepare for in less than three weeks--this means that commission work will be interspersed with stock items. Etsy orders will come first, and any orders with deadlines will come first. After that, it will be in order on my list as long as my colours dont run out. :) I shouldnt be making as much stock as I normally do, either, so work will not slow down as much. I will be focusing more on selling kimono at this event than on chainmaille. Ive also made a rather important decision... Starting pretty much immediately, I will not be putting as much focus on selling at conventions. I will instead be focusing much more on the online aspect of things. Why? Various reasons. Partly because in the last five years...Ive made it to one out of about thirty odd events that wasnt about selling. I havent gotten to go to a convention for fun in far too long, and just wander around in costume and enjoy myself. Its always constant stressing out over stock, tables, this, that, blah, blah, BLAH. Frankly, Im sick of it. I want to have fun at cons again. I want to have a reason to build costumes. And I want to not have to pay out the arse for hotel rooms and travel, and be drop-dead exhausted all the time. Last year over the summer I had four or five events that were back-to-back weekends, and I was ready to kill by the end of it. Not to mention spending four days at Fan Expo on my ass behind my table for 10 or so hours a day sucked big time. Its not what I want to do any more. Im going to pick two or three events per year to attend as a vendor...the rest are just going to be something Im going to go, if I go, because I want to spend time with my friends and family. And that will be that. I will be working on expanding my Etsy store as well as looking into Storenvy, and focusing more on making new, unique things. Im not putting myself through college right now so I can struggle to make ends meet every month. Im doing it so I can have a proper job, and keep my art something I love, instead of turning it into something I dont want to think about...which is what it became for a while, and is in danger of becoming again. Getting that off my chest makes me feel so much better...as does finally just putting my foot down and making that decision.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 02:19:51 +0000
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