Sunday Thoughts (Ep. 23)

Hello Patrons and friends and family! Another happy Sunday to you!

This was an alternately productive and un-productive week. 

I kicked off the week with creating the sketch for a commission from one of my top repeat customers. She and her roommate have ordered three commissions and multiple products! This time was a watercolor portrait of her sister and their late cat Oreo. It feels like such an honor to create this portrait, like it will remain with he family for years.

I also tackled a task I’ve been meaning to do for weeks. I added the bunny and cat prints to my Etsy, and added a whole new product type: print sets!

This allows customers to purchase more prints at a significant discount. I’m also working toward having 100 products in my Etsy, which (the rumor is) increases search views. And simply makes it more likely customers will find a product they like. Check them out here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/641627329/complete-rainbow-produce-set-of-8-5x7?ref=shop_home_feat_2

Friday marked my third Art Walk, in the Space Building of Fremont! It’s hard for me to believe it’s only been a month since my first art walk. I was much calmer this month, probably because I already had all of the materials ready to bring with me from the month before. And all of the mysteries that cause the stress last month have been cleared up. I am much more confident. This has felt like climbing stairs, with each stair being riddled with fear, but once I climb it I can climb to the next scary stair and the stair before seems so easy. And it slowly and slowly gets easier.

Easier enough that I am continuing to line up more and more in person selling events, markets and art walks and pop ups. I already have one next Friday in a new location: Belltown! It’s called Back Bar Flea Market and it looks very punk. 

Hopefully I can fit in a little to this punk scene since my blue-dyed hair turned immediately purple:

I just want to say I’d love to make more interesting content for you all, please let me know if there’s anything you’d like to learn about! Comment or message or email me. Would you like a Q&A? How to’s ? A studio tour? A sketchbook tour? Pictures of my apartment? Art around my home? Activities? Let me know any ideas!

Non-Art Life: 

It’s been interesting adjusting to working at the cafe on Saturdays and Sundays. I enjoy making enough money to cover my rent, I love the walk from Ballard to Greenlake, I love talking with the customers and learning how to make latte art (slowly...) But it does mess with my emotional schedule a little bit. It’s hard to count those two days as rest days since it takes 40 min each way to walk and I’m there during the middle of the day (when I’m most productive.) I’ve been having about day during the week when I feel like I should work but end up loafing around the house or cleaning or walking around... Perhaps with this schedule I should give myself one day off during the week and then maybe my other days will be more productive. 

Self-employment, guys. Such a learning curve.

By the way! Here’s a terrible photo of the cafe I work in:

It’s called Chocolati and it’s half a chocolate shop and half a cafe.

That’s all for now, friends! I hope you had a wonderfully happy week, full of joy and creativity and dogs and cats and art.

Let me know what you’d like to see more of in the comments, or however you most easily contact me!

xoxo

Ragon