Time grows short

Rather quickly, in fact. Time flies, flies, and never comes back.

And we only get busier and busier in this season when all the shows start coming up.

In the meantime, I've started getting back into the groove of sitting and making piece after piece for the sake of getting stock up for the shows (people seem to love a lot of the same, which is maddenning on my sanity but lovely for my wallet).

On a lovely bright note, I've discovered another hit with my store--people seem to really like the hacky sack toys. No idea why, as I figured they would only sell to younger audiences at shows, and only put a couple up on the off chance that someone might grab one. Well, one got grabbed.

Real surprise for me, but certainly no complaints. It was enough of a sale to pay for my artfire shop for the month. Happy happy.

On the upside of things, I believe I've successfully acquired time off work for the convention weekend. It was a nasty move for them to give us a schedule for the whole year and then change it three weeks after I confirm and pay for my table at the convention. It was very irritating, and amazingly it's rather daunting to think about trying to explain to your Sergeant and Warrant Officer that the reason you're missing a rather important weekend is that you're selling jewellery at a sci-fi convention. Geekery isn't always openly accepted at my job, and things like this are very touchy subjects.

In the meantime, I've given up on the candles for the time being because they're rather expensive and not offering me a return. They're fun, but at the moment not feasible to continue with.

I think the next project will be to create some wire wrapped crystal-point necklaces. No pictures at the moment for those, since I haven't done any and can't find a decent one on photobucket at the moment to post.

Tah-tah for now!