Business (as usual!)

[merimask]

Well, yesterday certainly was exciting in a geeky cyber artist kind of way.  Final count after my day of being featured on DeviantArt:  over 2,700 hits on my gallery, and over 4,800 hits on the Fire Dragon that was the featured Daily Deviation.   Just to put that into perspective; since I opened the site (November 20th I think) I'd only recieved 291 hits on my gallery in total, until yesterday.  Wow!  My Etsy shop experienced a boost in hits exactly like the kind I get when I buy a showcase...so not bad at all!

I ran out of black dye over the weekend...what to do?  I know; make BLUE things.


This one was a special request, so it was going to be blue anyway...

Both up in Etsy, naturally.

I am doing an awful lot of dragon masks lately.  I just keep getting requests for them...it's not my fault!  It seems very few mask artists make dragon masks, too, so I have cornered the market there.

Not complaining...I really like making dragons anyway.  I just figured I'd better explain myself, since you guys are probably sick of seeing dragons!

In other news; not much going on.  I'm very very worried about our health insurance.  Greg's employer is raising the rates by over $200 a month for our health coverage.  That means over $400 a month out of Greg's paycheck, just for insurance.  Greg is making noises about dropping it, but getting health insurance on your own is an extremely expensive proposition.   I'm afraid we might not have a policy in a month.  Scary...

Comments

[kls-eloise.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's about what insurance is costing me - and I'm thrilled to have it. But you remember the decade that I was uninsured, so you understand.

You should always make blue things, not just when you run out of black dye.

[merimask.livejournal.com]

Yeah the insurance thing is scaring me badly. I had no ins. at all when I was divorced & single...none for years & it was very frightening. I keep telling Greg we need to just suck it up & pay whatever Citicorp is offering us, 'cause the alternative is unbelieveably expensive. He has no idea...he never had to look into it like I did.

I like blue too! It's just that black is a good base color for drybrushing other colors atop it, so I use it all the time. Still yeah...blue speckles instead of black speckles all over my hands now. ;-)