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Gearing up for a craft show - let's do it1

Posted: Oct 12, 2013

Was waffling, thinking, deciding, wondering - then today, bam! I just decided, I'm gonna do it! I've got about a month to churn stuff out - make some big pieces, then some smaller things (lots of smaller things), some fun humorous things. Just to guage interest, before I start putting stuff on eBay or Etsy.

Fun, but a lot of work from now till then. Really have to paint like a demon - just now I realize demon and lemon are pretty much spelled the same - anyway, getting off track! But I've got a ton of ideas, and boom! clear the decks...

My dad told me a story about my great-uncle, who made fishing lures and lead sinkers - he put a hook in everything, that way he could dip them in paint, then hang them up to dry, he put a trough of some kind under them, to let them drip into. So anyway, with the spirit of my great-uncle investing all my creative efforts - it's all good. My grandmothers both sewed, and my one grandmother refinished and reupholstered furniture.

Today when my niece came over, I had some of my stuff I'm painting for Halloween, ahem, "all over the place," she was just looking at things and then looking at me - no, I am not your typical aunt! She is turning 12...that tender in-between age...

anyway, on to the craft show! Just wanted to share what some of the possibilities are, when your ENERGY is not getting SUCKED AWAY by medical transcription - you can do it! Quit, stumble, fail, and then rise back up.

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why I like this post - anon

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I have exactly 1-1/2 semesters to go, then hopefully I will find myself far, far away from MT and leave it behind me for good. I work and attend school full time and feel like I am driving myself to the nuthouse/poorhouse in the process.

But posts like yours help keep me going, hopefully seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. I long for the day when I have free time. I long for the day when I can get my arts and crafts out of the closet and work on them with the joy I once felt for them. Hope your pursuits continue, are prosperous and bring you much joy.

thank you so much for your comment! - wheres_my_job

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1-1/2 semesters - so close, and yet so far away! Believe, you will be so much happier once the whole MT thing is out of your life. Last night I was watching a speech someone was giving on a topic I was interested in, and painting at the same time. I realized I was happy doing what I was doing. Generally, I don't have realizations of happiness.

I also have some tapes for learning Russian someone gave me - if I can find a tape recorder, I will listen to that and paint at the same time.

Anyway, I can't imagine being an MT AND going to school at the same time - particularly when the working conditions are the way they are - no work, horrible VR, low pay, etc.

YOU DESERVE A MEDAL!

Keep pushing ahead, one day this will all be a nightmare you look back on and shudder in horror.

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