Making and doing

Well it is done. My job is no more, I couldn't be happier. I had random pangs of excitement throughout this week, of never having to answer the annoying buzzer, file another DLA form or input random codes on the database. It just feels wonderful. To focus completely on doing creative work all day everyday. It's just made me see what makes me happy and I wake up every morning wanting to get up, not waiting for the last possible moment to drag myself out of bed to pretend I give a damn about my job. So now that I have this free time I'm going to start thinking about my business set up, and make lists and action plans and dust off that sewing machine, part of me thought it wouldn't start when I plugged it in from neglect and abandonment, but it did. I thought spending an afternoon maybe a week to focus on making things for my etsy shop would be a good start and I can see how this pans out in the coming weeks up till my show.

I had an interview for a gallery too, it wasn't to be but it was at that point that I really started to assess what I really wanted to do after art school, and I decided that making and selling my work as well as running workshops is what I want to do. So I'm going to focus on this and hopefully by the end of the summer I'll have done some work to really get things off the ground. I'm already in the process of making some bags and fabric brooches and maybe some book style greetings cards to put in my shop. I'm going to wait another few weeks before I list anything though, because once there's some things in there I probably won't make anything else until Easter, when I have more time.