So, 30 Days of Landfill, my attempt to take all the best sellers on etsy.com ‘s advice and post something new everyday, was both a success and a failure. A success in that I sold some pieces, I got some attention, I’m in a local charity auction this fall (http://www.labcab.ca/), I got some recognition, and I realized that there is in fact a market out there for me to tap.

It was a failure in that I didn’t post something new every day. But even in that “failure” it was a success too. I know now that I cannot create, photo graph, describe and post 30 pieces in 30 days. That’s a little insane making. So going forward I need to have 30 pieces on hand, and hopefully some idea of how to describe/sell them and some photos too before I do this again. Which is a very valuable lesson to learn to say the least. I also know that I get distracted easily, and that buying new materials while trying to post “older” pieces is a mistake. I need to focus on one theme at a time otherwise I get distracted with the new shiny stuff and I play emotional ping pong with what I want to be doing and what I should be doing and then nothing gets accomplished! Insight is always good to have about oneself and your own work habits!

So, of 30 days, I managed to post 20 pieces, so 60% achieved. Which for a dry run, and a solid C student like I was in high school, is not too bad for a first try, especially cuz I totally didn’t study for the final exam! And I’m going to post those remaining 10 days/pieces in July, just for completeness sake, only this time I have 31 days to do it in, which is much more manageable now that it’s fully summer out there, and the pool is open, and my garden is producing more peas by the day, and there’s camping and BBQ’s to be had, and just oh you know, summer time!

And in other related news I’m working on a collaboration to bling up some purses and clutches for Code Bloo. Which is awesome and difficult at the same time. Necklaces hang and are subject to movement and gravity. Bling on purses needs to give the illusion of movement but be secure; this is making me think in 3-dimensions instead of 2 and it’s awesome/hard. Using the brain meats in ways they’re not used to, good thing we won’t charge labour on this piece cuz if we did I could retire on this one piece alone! But as I know from experience muddling out how to do something new for the first time takes a billion times longer the first time than the second, third, etc, learning is hard, but completion is so worth it!

Here’s the mock up of what I’m attempting to do:

Purse Bling

So with any luck, it’ll look at least a little bit like that when it’s attached to the purse! Though I’m still really wanting a small black bow of vintage silk ribbon in there somehow… just not sure where or how yet… /shrug, we’ll see, these things take on a life of their own. I often feel like I’m not creating it, I’m just revealing it. Like that old joke; how do you carve a horse from a block of marble, easy, just cut away anything that doesn’t look like horse.

Now, off to make more dream keys!

Dream Key