Giving the job hunt a break, giving Etsy and my mental well being a kick in the ass.

Sorry if I've not replied to your comments much recently. I've been in a self loathing funk and haven't been being as productive as I should be. (am I ever?)
My job hunting has taken a zillion different directions just over the past week, but I think I have it settled. At least for now. My frazzled brain noise went as follows:
Relying on the fact that the owner of the local Chinese restaurant is interested in hiring me as soon as the kids that currently work there head back to school. There are pro's and con's to this that I won't get into.
I then had an overwhelming feeling that I need to get out of this town already, and searched online for jobs up by campus where I graduated. Then I could keep working in the studio (cause the teachers are awesome and let us grads use the facilities) and get and early start on my recently acquired 5 year plan. But the job I found (which was art related!) is only part time and I wouldn't be making enough to even split rent with Mary, who I would be moving in with. Other job options I racked my brain over ended up not being good ideas either. Bummer. :(
Then I started getting pretty miserable that all this job hunting made me feel like I was giving up on Etsy. And that was not a good feeling. I decided that taking time out to stay with Mary and work in the campus studio for a couple of weeks would be a good idea. The boy also made me feel better by reminding me that I could really use that studio time to make things for the pottery festival next month, and holy crap is he right. Then two weeks turned into three since Mary will be heading off to Penland later this month (lucky her! :D ) and could really use me to house sit and feed her kitties for her again.
I think this will be a really good thing for me to really focus hard on not only getting things made for the pottery festival, but giving my Etsy a good kick in the bum, and try to get my sales back off the ground. I really want to give it all I have for the next three weeks (and beyond of course). No procrastinating. I look forward to it being refreshing, and helping me get my positive attitude back. And hopefully after the festival in September, I can finally afford that small kiln I so disparately need.

In unrelated news, my dreadies have been looking wonderful lately. They are long enough for me to tuck under my head bands and wraps now (well, most of them,haha). It looks rather nice. :)




Oh hey :)

Shroom in Bloom

After a good rain, all different kinds of mushrooms begin popping up all over where I live. :)

Shroom in Bloom at The Understory

Hope you are having a zen-filled weekend

1. Bokeh Buddha - Hong Kong, 2. Toy Buddha, 3. Buddha, 4. The Buddha, 5. Vitarka-mudra, 6. Buddha with a View, 7. Buddha under a Tree, 8. garden buddha, 9. Ko Samui, Thailand, 10. Untitled, 11. Happy Buddha, 12. Buddha Zen Garden, 13. Shrine, 14. Reclining Buddha, 15. ~ take your peace wherever you may find it ~, 16. Buddha Statue, 17. tiny green buddha., 18. Smiling Green Buddha Face, 19. The Pink Buddha of Lao, 20. my Buddy Buddhi, 21. Buddha in my garden, 22. Garden Buddha # 2, 23. Zen, 24. blue buddha, 25. blue buddha

Mugs a hobbit would die for

I'm finally getting around to listing the tree mugs I made while staying with Mary and visiting the studio. I prefer to refer to them as the mugs a hobbit would die for. :) I have a few more to list, but here are the two I have listed today.

View listing and more photos here.

View listing and more photos here.

Photo's from Mary's

When I house sat for my awesome friend Mary last month, I stayed an extra week when she got back and we got dolled up with leaves in out hair and took photos in her backyard. :)


I want to go back. :( I miss her and her kitties. And being close to the studio at school.





The black one is Neko, the other is Wilco. :) I more to post later, and I need to ask her is she care is I post her pic too.

Time to defunk

I've been in a sort of funk lately, and as a result haven't been posting much. A funk of being flat broke and unsuccessfully looking for a job, and being angry, bitter, and frustrated about the whole ordeal. It's very demotivating! And it's turned my brain into a whole bundle of negative thoughts to the point where even watching certain things on television will set me off into a bad day because I will go into fits of jealousy over the stupidest thing, such as the home makeover or house hunting shows, or even people winning things on the Price is Right. It's really pathetic and not the kind of person I really am, or want to be. And I really believe that being negative and feeling sorry for yourself only brings more bad things to you. So it's time to get rid of the funk. It won't happen overnight, but I'm trying.
I finally have a new photo posted on The Understory.

Warm Buddha

I have been reading a lot on Buddhism and enjoying it.
Now I'm off to start defunking!

1 year and 7 months of dreads

I wanted to share that the 4th was my 1 year and 7 month anniversary of having dreadlocks. :) They've come a long way, I'm really proud of them. I can't wait for them to get really long.