A NEW ADDICTION HAS ME UNDER IT'S THUMB

An addict has to watch out for new addictions.  It crossed my mind that this was happening to me but how can this be bad? I have been painting morning, noon and night. Right now my EBAY account says I have sold 40 paintings over the past 60 days and there have been 13 unsold, 8 are active. My hourly wage is out the window.

The 40 sold have only brought in $180.00 and this does not match what I made at Walmart. It averages $4.50 each. Since practice makes perfect, painting daily is needed to improve and  make every painting salable. The better an artist I become, the more money I make.

I am running out of time though because my husbands job shuts down for the summer. So, I have been splitting my time getting my products ready to present to a local boutique for sale.

I sell my paintings on EBAY without a mat and unframed. As of today I have completed 18 watercolors with mats and frames. There are 60 blank greeting cards ready for sale. I have 4 glass jewelry holders ready.

I'll be ready to present my items to the boutique upon completing the 3 tier glass desert towers and their handmade candles.

The towers need to be glued together, make the candles, redo my business card and add professional looking labels. 

So, if I have been allotting half the time of the past 2 weeks on the boutique items, is the painting a real addiction? I know what the ultimate goal is. Money, money, money.

I regret not keeping the blog counter up to date. People are counting on me. In that respect I'm still an addict, full of hot air because I promised to change the counter daily.  Perhaps that's too harsh but the truth is that I will always be an addict. A trip to the casino is right around the corner if I don't stay focused, have safeguards in place.

Facing that truth is not as hard as it once was. I'm happy painting every day.  One thing I have always loved to do is find a new purpose for things.  My boutique items fill that need.  I used to look upon my daydreaming as a bad thing.  I now realize I need to do that to re-purpose this and that and hopefully make money.

Here are a few pictures.

 Should I not be able to place my work in a boutique, the next step will be garage sales to get a sense what I can do to sell what I have.  I have a lot of inventory left from assembling these dolls.



















Another couple days and I'll be ready to request an appointment to present my re-purpose work.


All the glassware is from the second hand stores

All the mats and frames are re-purposed from thrift outlets.  The greeting card photos have been through a computer program and altered in various ways so I think of my photos as re-purposed.  The candles will be topped with melted leftover crayons I have. Who knew I would find a new way to use them. 

If I think hard enough to bring  new life to trash, that's a good thing.  The trick is to make money doing it.