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Catch-up post of Random Things
Mar. 4th, 2009 08:53 amI know, it's been a while, and I still feel guilty posting when I should be working, but I have the space heater turned on in the garage now, and soon it will be warm enough to work in there.
( Estrella )
I am bailing out on Caid Crown, partly because of the probable weather and also because Sam offered to pay me to help out at his booth at a gem and mineral show in Hayward this weekend. It's at Centennial Hall, for you Bay Area folks, and the details and a discount admission coupon are at http://www.mgscv.org. Ooh, florescent rocks!
( Learning experiences )I had intended to put in a bid to do new West Kingdom Crowns, but ran out of time. I wanted to submit a proposal that was more historically-based than the current crowns. I did not anticipate my bid being accepted, mind you, but I wanted there to be something more historical to choose from. I haven't seen any other bids except the sketches for Sam's, which are Amazing. I need to focus on my own backlog of stuff before bidding on any new projects anyway.
I am creating a Plan to get myself out from the backlog, have stock made of my existing stuff, and be able to get back to new product development. That's the fun part. Much like software developers liking to write code, however, there are all these other tasks that make the new stuff possible and profitable, and it's easy to either get caught up in that stuff and have no fun, or conversely to lose myself in making nifty new prototypes and neglect the other stuff that actually brings them to the vendor table. Balance. I needz it. Along with that inner peace business that people keep telling me about.
So once that glorious and currently very nebulous plan comes to fruition, I want to expand outward into doing clockwork mechanism sculptures and more modern fine jewelry. Yeah. I'm so focussed. I'm thinking about taking all of the steampunk pieces and some of the medieval pieces to SF cons. The big ones that might make the effort worthwhile. This means making more stock, which is not new product development and is thus less fun, but it still beats being in a cubicle in a Dilbert-like company.
Ok, more tea now.
( Estrella )
I am bailing out on Caid Crown, partly because of the probable weather and also because Sam offered to pay me to help out at his booth at a gem and mineral show in Hayward this weekend. It's at Centennial Hall, for you Bay Area folks, and the details and a discount admission coupon are at http://www.mgscv.org. Ooh, florescent rocks!
( Learning experiences )I had intended to put in a bid to do new West Kingdom Crowns, but ran out of time. I wanted to submit a proposal that was more historically-based than the current crowns. I did not anticipate my bid being accepted, mind you, but I wanted there to be something more historical to choose from. I haven't seen any other bids except the sketches for Sam's, which are Amazing. I need to focus on my own backlog of stuff before bidding on any new projects anyway.
I am creating a Plan to get myself out from the backlog, have stock made of my existing stuff, and be able to get back to new product development. That's the fun part. Much like software developers liking to write code, however, there are all these other tasks that make the new stuff possible and profitable, and it's easy to either get caught up in that stuff and have no fun, or conversely to lose myself in making nifty new prototypes and neglect the other stuff that actually brings them to the vendor table. Balance. I needz it. Along with that inner peace business that people keep telling me about.
So once that glorious and currently very nebulous plan comes to fruition, I want to expand outward into doing clockwork mechanism sculptures and more modern fine jewelry. Yeah. I'm so focussed. I'm thinking about taking all of the steampunk pieces and some of the medieval pieces to SF cons. The big ones that might make the effort worthwhile. This means making more stock, which is not new product development and is thus less fun, but it still beats being in a cubicle in a Dilbert-like company.
Ok, more tea now.
