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It's the little things...
Oh man, I think this holiday season will be the death of me soon.
In an attempt to avoid staying awake until 5AM working on things, I decided to raid my old stash of little items I made almost a year ago. They were just sitting in a box that hadn't been opened since the last time I actually, physically attended an event where I sold my stuff in person. So I found things like this...
...and listed 'em on Etsy. Yeah, it's all just little stuff, but this is a good time to offer it anyway. Stocking stuffers, you know? Way to use your noodle, clever overworked artist-person!
I'm going to take this opportunity to plug my good friend ![[info]](https://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
golden_meliades' Etsy shop, while I'm at it. Her hairsticks are absolutely lovely and SO reasonably priced. I own several sets and every time I wear them, everybody notices them because they are simply gorgeous. 
Just click on the picture to go to her shop. There's something there for everyone's taste and budget (even a stick that we collaborated on!)...which reminds me that I have to send her some more leather leaves. Been planning to do that for a while now ...I'm a bad friend. :-/
Last of the X-mas packages should be heading out today, I hope. That's the plan anyway. The plan is always subject to changes. Weather may become a factor. We are supposed to get sleet and freezing rain and eventually snow, here. I can't see how we are going to get sleet or freezing rain, as it is SO COLD here right now (in the teens), but then the weather has been changeable too. Yesterday it was 52 here...52!! Day before that, it snowed. Today, the lawn that was warm and soggy yesterday, and covered with snow the day before, is hard and crunchy-frozen right now. So, I suppose I should be prepared for anything.
Hope you are all having a decent day. Scary weather in much of the country, so stay warm!
EDIT: Hey cool! I topped over three thousand frontpage views on my DeviantArt gallery. Not bad eh? It's been up for less than a month. ^_^
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I'm on dial-up right now so it's taking me FOREVER to do anything online...I hope the high speed comes back up before I have to make my Etsy listing today...uploading the pics takes forever on dial-up.
Thanks for the plug. :) With the US economy as it is right now, and with Canada only a couple of steps behind, Etsy is a ghost town as well. I still only get one or two hits each time I put up a new listing or renew an old one. ONE SALE at the very first of December...and nothing since then. November was dead, too. November/December should be the BUSIER months! People are really cracking down on the luxury items/non-essentials. It's not serious for me as I don't rely on my Etsy income for anything (I've only used it to pay for supplies thus far and all the rest is sitting untouched in a separate account...not that hairsticks are very lucrative anyway, being only about 20 bucks average per sale, with about 10 sales a month.)
But hey, working yourself into a knot about it isn't going to help...it's going to give you an ulcer. I mean, I know you have to work hard to keep buyers coming at a time like this but worrying on top of it? Extra work + extra stress = Burnt Out Meri.
Though there are SO few things that worry me (being that I'm an exceptionally sheltered/protected/fortunate kid) that it's easy for me to say 'try not to worry'. I could worry if I made an effort, but I would HAVE to make an effort, at this point. Right now my biggest problem is an increasingly serious winter funk...but I'm getting my brain together on that topic and trying to form some kind of plan to keep it all under control. The lamp does help somewhat but it's only a little...just enough to take the 'edge' off, it seems. The random pointless anxiety has gone away, but it's been replaced by utter sloth/don't-care-about-ANYTHING...'ness'.
I had to change my LJ layout to a sicken heart and flowers one to get a warmer colour that isn't dark. Most of the 'warm colour' layouts for 'Expressive' are dark warm colours...and I dislike dark colours for my LJ...it makes me depressed. So I had to settle for this one with hearts and daisies spilling out of an envelop. Scary!
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