Got my new business cards today. I’m feeling all kinds of “legit” right now. They’re so crisp and clean!

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Yesterday I learned how to make barcodes for the items I sell so I can print them out and adhere them to the packaging of cards i make.

It took quite a lot of work-arounds, but I eventually got my off-brand thermal printer to print a PDF version of each barcode at the scale i wanted.

So now I have the capacity to scan in the barcode when I sell something in person and keep track of my stock. Now I can actually look at the tracking evidence to see what pieces are selling best, not just guess from anecdotal evidence.

I spent the evening printing and adhering stickers to each of the greeting cards sleeves with items I’ve already printed, and learned how much more work I have to do... I realized a *huge* amount that I was selling in person didn’t have a corresponding listing on my storefront.

Since I got through the cards I’ve made, now i have to turn my attention to card packs and my prints. I think that’s all I’m going to for right now. That’s… a lot.

It’s horrifying how one can think they’re ahead of the game when all it’s really doing is opening up floodgates of more tasks to do… I’m overwhelmed, but it’s a good overwhelm. It’s a hope-fueled overwhelm. It’s all moving forward.

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It's always useful to find out what other writers and artists think about their work. This, from the writer Rosemary Sutcliff:

"The temptation is to try & use everything you’ve found out in…research. That can be fatal, because you…only need to use about 1/10. It’s…like an iceberg…It has to be there, because it gives you the freedom of the period. But you don’t use it.”

This has some relevance to my planning of embroidery projects, especially the #OpusAnglicanum. I need to know something about it, but I'm not trying to do a period-accurate piece, so I have to be a bit careful about what I include of what I know. As I make plans for the border for the #AethelflaedEmbroidery, it is good that that has come to the surface again.

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My area is at that irritating point where it's enough pollen to make you tired, but not enough to make the meds neccessary - instead the latter make you a _different_ kind of tired.

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Felt like doodling, and suddenly I'd put lab safety goggles on a snail. Just an ordinary day in an artist's life...

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"Colorful Quirky Cat Portrait" T-shirt Design.
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I sold two prints today.

That might not seem like a lot. But for me it was. It was a very good day.

The purchaser was a patron who’d discovered me locally at my booth, and later found me online to buy even more greeting cards over the last year.

That’s the goal, right?

But this was different: he bought prints. Because his family likes my work.

Prints aren’t practical. They’re not cards that get mailed to another person, or calendars that help you keep track of days, or notepads upon which you write lists.

When I started doing art as a career I never let myself believe my work had a place outside the practical. I was scared, and didn’t want to do pieces that couldn’t be used simultaneously as an asset for something utilitarian, because it was the functional aspect of the item that would help sell my art. I wanted to play it smart.

But this last year has been… eye-opening. I’ve sold more prints than I ever thought I would. It's allowed me to see things from a different perspective. It has been deeply validating, given me permission to be brave, and negated a lot of my deeply ingrained fears.

So today meant something to me. An older gentleman, who loved my work so much that his multiple purchases of greeting cards weren’t cutting it, believed in me enough to go to the next step and buy something from me simply because he likes it, not because it was useful.

That makes me feel really good. So it's been a good day.

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I Am Art – Painted by Linda Woods

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