I’m a few days late on my blog post because I flew out to the East Coast on Tuesday and it’s taken me a bit to get settled and into a new routine. I’m visiting family and attending a wedding during the next week and a half.

Since my last post, I realized that I was trying too hard to relax while maintaining some sort of working schedule and the two concepts were conflicting with each other and making me quite stressed about what I was supposed to be doing with my time. I decided that I wasn’t going to force myself to relax and instead work on aspects of my art business that are not just painting and creating art. Turns out, keeping busy makes me less stressed and anxious, but I already knew that. Trying to ‘relax’ doesn’t exactly work for me.

What I’m working on

I applied to two holiday art/craft fairs in the Oakland and Berkeley area. I was accepted to one in Oakland by the Oakland Cottage Industry on December 3rd, so Bay Area friends mark your calendars!
I think the six paintings I’ve been working on are done and they’re drying

Inputs

I finished reading The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp
I’m still slowly reading The Practice by Seth Godin

Outputs

As mentioned, I flew to the East Coast on Tuesday and I’ll be hanging out with family for the next week.

End of September

Beginning of October

Second week of self-employment