2019 Wrap Up

2019 - the year I gave up blogging!

So sad really, I wish I could be more disciplined about keeping up with it.  i try and try only to lag again.  Instagram took over, that's where all the people are, and where I get the most bang for my effort.  plus how many times can I complain about NOT blogging, and not working and not drawing?  I guess I found my limit.

But I will miss having this record of my daily and weekly and monthly and yearly struggles.  I continue on with a private diary of sorts, but it's not the same.  Better in some ways, because I don't edit my feelings for consumption, but not as organized as this.  No way to keep it organized I guess.

A N Y W A Y - things change radically form year to year, and sometimes it takes me a year just to absorb the change.  Business was wayyyyyyyyy down, and picked up toward the end because I finally had a new outlet for my work, Shopmade.  But even that I managed to fuck up, because I couldn't keep with with a consistent flow of inventory.  Started out promising, but my big plans for holiday went way off track after I shifted focus to SUPERFINE in sept/oct, then got sick for weeks in Nov.

Lets see - what else?  Buzz has fizzled for prints, but still ok with cards.  BUT, hard to keep getting there to restock, and hard to keep all the cards inventory, and HAVE to keep making new designs.  All very challenging.

A great Hallmark year.  New designs in spring, and now another round this month.  Really excited to be working with them again.

Studio - a mess.  I HAVE TO re imagine it, clean out all the clutter, and set it up for success!  Gallery walls, and ORGANIZATION.  It's such a mess all the time.  2020 last year on lease, so ugh, need to renew.  The cost just escalates.  When am I being stupid???

GICLEE - a positive new step, but again, hard to manage.  What to order?  How many?  I'm always off.  Getting into the idea of printing editions again.  We'll see how that goes.  A huge can of worms.

SHIRTS - sticking with DC logo for shopmade, and that's pretty much it.  Transfers way down, but easier.  crazy.  At some point I will go back to shite shirts.  When?  And still making totes.  But it's fits and starts.  So weird how at once they are popular, then not at all.  I have no idea.

Prints - anxious to find my way as always.  Big, small?  I just don't know.

UGH - I guess all is a question.  After doing this so long, I still have no clue. What a perfect way to end the year.  Hopefully not the end of the blog.  Plan to check in now and again.  Certainly want to at least keep it active.

PS - iweb website GONE!  officially cut ties, and now it's big cartel all the way.  5 years too late!  

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