Thursday, September 10, 2009

insanity

so in the last couple of days, i been feeling extremely overwhelmed by everything thats happening. there are so many things to pay attention to, but theres no real meat (you know, like the good stuff) in my life and all that im doing & have. i actually started making a mental list, but it didnt all fit in my head, so here it is:

my personal website
my candle website
my personal etsy store
my candle esty store
my personal email
my professional email
my candle email
my company email
my personal twitter
my candle twitter
another twitter for bigsmilemag
my personal facebook
my personal mysapce
my candle facebook page
contributing some projects for a candle book
currently working on 1 homepage redesign for a travel site
working on temp page for a new client for health foods
working at samsung for the next three weeks
going to restart working on big smile magazine's site redesign
just picked up art for the art show
just picked up candles for the monthly art & handmade show

i think i know a good amount of contacts, how do i make magic happen with all that im doing? let the puzzle pieces fall into place please, fast

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

into "the rabbit hole"

sometime last weekend after helping my friend move into her new apartment, i was feeling increasingly depressed about my own living situation. remembering her mention that she found her apartment prospects on craigslist, i decided to do the same. from surfing apartments to jobs and finally landing on gigs, there are certainly some interesting "opportunities" out there. one of the postings was about a show that very weekend, looking for handmade items! my opportunistic brain immediately went DING and thus the email was sent. hearing back from the coordinator shortly, i got a fantastic response, thus ensuring me a space in the event! "The Rabbit Hole" its called, very cute i thought. unfortunately i was only able to drop off the candles & was unable to attend the actual event (although not thhhat sorry cuz i went on a super fun boating vacay, yes be jealoused).
the resulting of sales in the candles were however initially dissapointing: 2  L-O-V-E soy candles. now i find it a bit amusing that i have a check or $11.20 in my wallet. in the end, it was cool contact made & another way of putting myself out there. would definitely do it again, but i think now im raising my prices...for fun...