Happy 4th of July, everyone! I'm celebrating the best way I know how, by sitting around the apartment and pretending to clean. Yay!
I've hit a significant creativity dry spell. I blame increased stress at my job and my obsession with Skyrim for this. Seriously, it took me 150+ hours to finish the game my first time through. That game is designed to bring out my ADD. Luckily, when I went to replay it I quickly got bored. The job stress, though, that hasn't gone away.
In the (hopefully) near future I will be taking the LICSW exam, which will (hopefully) help me get away from my current job and into something better. Or different. At this point I'd be happy with different.
What all this means is that I haven't done much with my Etsy store. My current project is a set of peacock feather fairy wings. I got about halfway through my first set when I decided they were terrible and needed to be trashed. I felt bad and spent a long time wondering if I should forge ahead, despite their terribleness, so all the effort I had already put into them wouldn't have been wasted. The wings sat on my crafting desk in their half-completed state for weeks. Eventually I stopped going into my crafting room because I did not want to deal with them. Today I came to my senses and tossed the horrible things in the trash. I even smashed them a bit so I couldn't fish them out of the garbage later if I became overcome with guilt. I started another, smaller, pair. When their done they'll be a nice, child-sized, pair of wings.
I did learn a lot from my first attempt. I constructed the wire frame in a quarter of the time it took me the first time. So, you know, silver lining and all that.
Hopefully this burst of motivation will continue and I'll start adding new items to the store soon.
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