Made it through November -- though I certainly had some days that were incredibly trying on a personal level -- but I made it through. (If you're wondering what this is all about, it's called the Monthly Goal Meetup. It is spearheaded by the Modish Biz Tips blog as a way for small creative business owners to stay focused and offer each other moral support and encouragement.)
Here's how I did:
Now on to December's goals:
Here's how I did:
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Print winter holiday cards. Photograph them. Get them listed on Etsy. Send out email announcing their existence (by November 10th!).Done. I had to reprint one of my designs due to a design brainfart on my part, but I did get them done and announced/listed on the 12th. -
Finish up shipments to Bluebottle, Wholly Craft, etc. and get them out the door by the 15th.Also done. Out the door on the 18th, and one order already generated a re-order. Yay! -
Finish printing 2010 Valentines cardsand photograph them.If they don't make it into my shipments, that's okay, although it would be awesome if they did.Still have to photograph them, but they did make it into my shipments, so that makes up for it. - Blog at least once a week (not counting monthly goals post). Nope. Posted twice. Thought about posting a lot, but didn't. Story of my life.
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Spend more quality time, less time total, on the computer/internet.Somewhat successful. Focused on not ending up in front of the computer in the evenings unless I had a specific task, and that worked. Spent a little more quality time with A and the animals. -
Figure out what I'm doing with painting versus paper goods. Launching a separate wedding invitation shop/webpage/company? Integrating it more into my overall studio umbrella and focusing more on painting as my 'main' thing?Paper goods will be splitting off from Carly Bodnar Studio to become Phaedra Paperie. The webpage is partially built, and I've set up an Etsy and a Gmail account... but how serious I get about it is currently in limbo pending changes at my day job. Ah, the artist and the day job. The eternal struggle. - Finish HSC commissioned painting. Eh... definitely did some work on it. But it's definitely not done. Damnit.
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List recent drawings and works on paper on Etsy.I still have more I could list, but I got all of the ones I've posted on Gloriously Awash in Sin listed on Etsy. That was the essence of that goal, so I'm calling it a win.
Now on to December's goals:
- Finish HSC painting!
- Continue not wasting my life away in front of the computer.
- There are a couple of local galleries whose submission period is during January, so I need to get my packet ready to go. I always 'mean' to submit, but let my procrastination/fear/anxiety get the best of me. Not this year. (Oh please, oh please.)
- I have a stack of artist registry forms. Once I've got packets together for galleries, it's not much more work to submit to some artist registries. My official goal will be getting 6 of the 8 I've printed out actually sent.
- I promised some people prints of my work forever ago and never followed through. Get those ordered/sent so they'll get them in time for Christmas.
- I'm going to be teaching a class (through Paper Zone) on screenprinting wedding invitations in January after the Portland Bridal Show, so I need to fully outline the class syllabus and handouts. I can finish them in early January, but the hard work will need to be done before the last minute.
- Photograph Valentine cards. Prepare publicity email(s).
- Create mural proposal or OSU Engineering department. (Not sure this is going to happen; it will definitely have to take a backseat to the HSC painting.)