Launching IN 5 Days! For Real This Time!

All right folks! As my face in the picture above suggests It's crunch time! We are officially launching in T minus 5 days! Everything for the most part is ready! The business cards are on the way, the blog posts are in the process of being edited, the paper and ink has arrived and so the books are being printed as we speak! Earring designs have been finalized and I have decided that instead of making inventory beforehand I am going to make the earrings based on demand because I do not want to delay the launch any more than I already have. I found two typos in Apples, Bananas, and Neurons that I have to fix, and then that too will run on a print on demand model with the exception of the first 3 books. I am just starting out here, so let's pace ourselves accordingly.

My room is a mess! Gosh, I literally have been multitasking all over the place, I took my pillow case off because I need to do laundry but I digress! This just a little sneak peak of what it looks like behind the scenes as I gear up for October 1st.

I am both excited and filled with a myriad of questions but since people keep calling me out for being negative, which admittedly, I too no longer want to be. I won't share the questions with you and instead I'll talk more about the excitement. This whole process has been 3 years in the making. A little more actually if you count all the years it took to harness the skills necessary to create all of the art that you see today and I am so excited to share everything that I've made with all of you! I am excited to build relationships with all of you as we engage in this journey together, I am excited about tabling at conventions large and small (tomorrow I take the written part of my driving test which is one more step towards that goal), and I am excited about finally being able to officially network with other artists now that my website will be up and running! I'm excited about walking into and experiencing all of the things that I envisioned for myself over the years. I am still an incredibly shy person but I embrace and love that part of myself and I am excited about meeting people in spite of that. I am excited about meeting all of you (I think I said that twice, don't you see how excited I am about that!) and seeing you smile, listening to your thoughts, and conversing with all of you. I am excited about making more work, stepping outside of my comfort zone, pushing my limits, climbing to new heights, and seeing where this path will lead. I'm excited! I truly am ;)

I've worked so hard for this, I've overcome so much, and I am excited to share this new endeavor of mine with all of you starting on October 1st. New month, new chapter, new doors waiting to be unlocked!

The artist smiling as she contemplates all the things that she is excited about, and all the things that she's had to overcome to get to this point.

And of course my excitement doesn't eradicate the questions, the voices, the what if's, but I am learning that I must celebrate my wins. I must live in the now, and not dread the future. I must take life one day, and one moment at a time, and be happy in each of those moments. Besides, I still have 5 more days to fine tune everything, and even then, there might've been something that I might have missed. But hey, I guess, I'll just have to cross that bridge when I get there. And that's the other thing too perfection is overrated, I am human after all I am prone to making mistakes and those too I embrace. I can always correct along the way--after all it's less about perfection and more about presenting the best version of my current myself. ;)

Until Next Time You Guys!