Chugging Along

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I made so much stuff yesterday! The yellow pins are sunflowers, awaiting the arrival of brass bee charms, arriving today probably. The purple pins are stacked shades of purple. I'll show them another time. Upper left you can see the wreath cards I started. But I decided I should concentrate on bookmarks because they sell better than cards these days.

Conversation in my head this morning:

• Whoa. Three days, then two shows this week. Feeling stressed! I just have to get through Saturday, then I can breathe.
• Stressed? What about next year when you're doing even more shows?? What about that, huh?
• Yeah, but it will be different because now that I know I'm doing at least 5 shows/year, most likely more, I'll work harder through winter. And now I know what's selling well. So it will be better.

Then I realized I was doing that thing that we do when we know we have vacation scheduled. "Oh my God, I just could not last another minute if I didn't have that vacation day scheduled!" Except if you didn't have it scheduled, you'd be just fine.

As this fall show season approached, along with increasing work responsibilities, I knew it would be a stressful time. Except now that I'm near the end of it, it didn't seem so stressful. Just one foot in front of the other.

This is how wacky it's gotten though. I can't wait to clean the house. Somebody slap some sense into me.

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