My laptop is dead. Hopefully, it will be resurrected-- right before it crapped out, it refused to recognize my AC adapter, which has indeed seen better days. So I ordered a new one and hopefully that will fix it. In the meanwhile, I'm surviving through a combo of using my smartphone and hopping on Jason's computer if I need to write something more long-form. Which, indeed, I shall be doing later this week-- more on that when it manifests. But it's good stuff.
Work-wise, nearly all of the jewelry that I'm dropping off to Faerie Magazine on Tuesday has already sold. Yeah, I'd say the transition to doing wholesale work has gone swimmingly. At this point, they've bought/sold roughly 500 of my pieces since October, and they're placing another large-ish order later this week. Things have been going really great with the team there, and I'm so happy.
Honestly, I thought I'd be more frustrated/bored making the same pool of work in a wholesale format, but it turns out I'm not. I think I was approaching a sort of creative fatigue after 7+ years of retail collections, not to mention, the fear of "okay, if I splurge on this stone / this material / etc, what happens if it doesn't sell?" Having a regular wholesale gig brings me a new audience and a little more stability so that I can make those gambles more often, and instead of feeling pressured to create, I can make them as the creativity inspires me. I feel much more chill about it.
I don't know what the wholesale/retail balance is going to be in 2015. Right now, I'm focusing on wholesale because it's going SO WELL. But I have a slew of Shard of Light pendants to make next week for commissions, and after that, I need to decide what my first retail collection of 2015 will be. (Probably something appropriate for Art of the Belly in March.) It's just nice to be able to take a bit of a breath, you know?
Aaaanywho, things are, *knock on wood*, going ok for the moment, dead laptop aside. I am behind on my correspondence (as always). I have a stack of "thank you for sending me a holiday card" notes to send. This winter, so far (again, *knock on wood*), is kicking last winter's ass. But I think that's because Nox has been maintaining. He's a bit picky about food, but overall ok. We're a little nervous about his white blood cell count since he restarted his chemo regimen last week-- I really don't want to take him off of it. So good thoughts would be very appreciated there.
I leave you with this awesome piece of artwork that Austen Marie drew of me. I plan to use it over at The Enchanted Mirror once I have a working laptop again.
Ta!
Work-wise, nearly all of the jewelry that I'm dropping off to Faerie Magazine on Tuesday has already sold. Yeah, I'd say the transition to doing wholesale work has gone swimmingly. At this point, they've bought/sold roughly 500 of my pieces since October, and they're placing another large-ish order later this week. Things have been going really great with the team there, and I'm so happy.
Honestly, I thought I'd be more frustrated/bored making the same pool of work in a wholesale format, but it turns out I'm not. I think I was approaching a sort of creative fatigue after 7+ years of retail collections, not to mention, the fear of "okay, if I splurge on this stone / this material / etc, what happens if it doesn't sell?" Having a regular wholesale gig brings me a new audience and a little more stability so that I can make those gambles more often, and instead of feeling pressured to create, I can make them as the creativity inspires me. I feel much more chill about it.
I don't know what the wholesale/retail balance is going to be in 2015. Right now, I'm focusing on wholesale because it's going SO WELL. But I have a slew of Shard of Light pendants to make next week for commissions, and after that, I need to decide what my first retail collection of 2015 will be. (Probably something appropriate for Art of the Belly in March.) It's just nice to be able to take a bit of a breath, you know?
Aaaanywho, things are, *knock on wood*, going ok for the moment, dead laptop aside. I am behind on my correspondence (as always). I have a stack of "thank you for sending me a holiday card" notes to send. This winter, so far (again, *knock on wood*), is kicking last winter's ass. But I think that's because Nox has been maintaining. He's a bit picky about food, but overall ok. We're a little nervous about his white blood cell count since he restarted his chemo regimen last week-- I really don't want to take him off of it. So good thoughts would be very appreciated there.
I leave you with this awesome piece of artwork that Austen Marie drew of me. I plan to use it over at The Enchanted Mirror once I have a working laptop again.
Ta!
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