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I’d like to point everyone to send sympathies to dragonwhishes, her uncle just died and she’s going through the surreal chaos that comes with a death in the family.

I’m still here, still okay. I’m trying to devote lots of time to art, as childish and selfish as that sounds. I would really, really like to make a go of this. I’m almost thirty, and I’m not the best artist in the world but I’m good enough, damnit. I should be making money off this. I suspect a major holdback in all this has always been my complete inability to sell myself, which I’m sure has a lot to do with my string of retail jobs, too. We’re setting up a collective Etsy store, some of Bridgie’s dolls are up there already, and I’m working on art to sell there too. With any luck there will be sculptures and handmade books eventually. The shop is under the name RavenDove, because Bridgie made it on lunch break at work and that’s the name she and I put on stuff way back when we sold beaded stuff at craft fairs (which did not do better than maybe covering the cost of the table).
On the downside, I have a major cavity. I’ve had it for years, in fact, but lack of insurance/money means I can’t do a damn thing about it. I’ve been lucky in that it almost never bothers me painwise, except in conjunction with sinus headaches. I’m afraid to even get it looked at because I suspect a dentist will tell me it demands a procedure that starts in ‘R’ and ends in ‘OhhhhAaaaaghhhhrrrrrAAUUUUUUUUUUGH!’ and I’d have to go into debt to pay for that out of pocket. Things like electricity and food and rent come first, sorry. Yesterday it decided to really think about making its presence known, which scares me a little, because of course it would pick just after I lost my job to do this. Today the pain’s gone again but I feel very… aware of it, if that makes any sense. It doesn’t actually hurt but I can feel its presence and I’m afraid of chewing anything on that side. I’m brushing my teeth about three times a day, with mouthwash, but I’ve gotta eat.

Anyways, on the schedule today: Paint color base on Janewty art, continued messing around with resume (OMG Thank you Cheryl thank you for restructuring it!), get gmail addy for same, do the damn dishes, work on smaller art pieces to sell.

If anyone has suggestions for small quick art pieces to sell, throw ‘em out. By suggestions I mean stuff like ‘draw a cat in a zoot suit!’ or ‘Hey, how about them pirate aardvarks?’ or ‘something about coffee, with, like, cherubs and ribbons and stuff’.
Yeah, those ideas are all somewhere on the list.