It's been a long day but I'm still up at 2:30 AM instead of going to bed. I'm feeling like a major funk is coming on and I need to find a way to keep it at bay. Its been over a year since I saw my head doctor and it might be time to find someone new but I really want to try to keep doing it on my own with the help of my friends and family.
My thoughts are going faster everyday and I have about 50 or more craft ideas in my mind that I want to do. My fear is that I'm going to all of a sudden hit a wall and fall into a spiral of not being able to do anything except stay in bed for days on end. The dreary weather has a lot to do with my mood these days and its going to be this way for the next 2 or 3 days.
I'm getting discouraged with both of my shops as I haven't had any sales on zibbet and only the 3 that I had over a month ago on Etsy. I've been promoting on fb,twitter, here on my blog and telling people about both sites but still nothing. I'm going to give them both more time and keep making things and hoping for the best. I know that if I keep positive thoughts and tell myself that sales will come that they will but sometimes its hard not to get down when you put your best into your work and it doesn't do anything.
Okay pity party over on to something else that I just realized last night about most of my work.
I was starting a new afghan and settled on the pattern when I came to the realization that all of my afghans , toys, and bookmarks and other crafts all in one way or the other are based on the number three. All of the afghans either are a stitch that is divisible by 3 or the rows are a 3 repeat. The toys also have either a row count or stitch count that is divisible by 3. This is interesting to me as the number 3 is very spiritual to just about all religions or nature paths known. Pagans have the Power of Three in the Maiden, Mother, Crone aspect of the Goddess, Christians have the Father, Son, Holy Spirit and if I were to do more research I'm sure there are others that I'm unaware of. This is something that just has happened with my work, not anything that I have consciously done so it must be that its in me to work that spiritual meaning into my work. I have always taken time to come up with a chant to go with every item that I make to put intention into the project but until last night never knew that I did the power of three in my work. I find this an interesting realization about things.
I added the 3 bookmarks yesterday and took pictures of the latest 2 baby afghans. I'm going to post the afghans tomorrow, well later today, and I'm going to do a few more bookmarks and get them posted. I got some different things to try as noise makers inside of baby rattles when we went shopping and I;m going to play around with them over the next few days, I have another baby afghan half done and a handbag that I started while I was at the movies the other night to finish so these things should keep me busy for the rest of the week and hopefully will help to keep me out of the doldrums.
Goodnight & Goddess Bless
So that you feel better, I haven't had even ONE sale on Zibbet or Etsy, and I do all the promoting you do. My realization about my work is, I do best at craft fairs. And that's where I need to find my followers, who then may buy again, but at my shops. In the mean time, you have to enjoy the online networking and blogging, which I do. Otherwise, yes, I might quit too.
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