a bat, or possibly an umbrella

The physio appt felt a bit useless - he didn't ask me or do anything I haven't already been asked or had done to me before. He says he can't see an issue with the joints in my legs, and thinks they're all strong and work okay. Which is news to me, but whatever. I happened to not be hurting at the time I saw him, so it sort of felt like I was wasting his time.

Oh well.

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I've been watching a bunch of videos of someone following an art challenge, and it's been making me think again about making things to sell to people who do art/creative journalling. Which is a thing that has crossed my mind from time to time for nigh on three years now. But I've never done it because I don't know if anyone will want to buy my things, and the best place to sell them would be Etsy, and I straight up cannot afford the fees.

But. I started watching a channel called Teal and Tattered Journals and she started a series about a year ago called Craft Therapy, where she journals with no purpose other than to just make stuff for herself. She mentions in the first video of this series that her therapist asks if she makes anything just for her, to which the answer was no, and that was how this came about.

And it got me thinking.

While there is stuff that I make that you folks don't see, there is a lot that I make that I specifically think about to sell. Although it is in less quantities than it used to be when I was self-employed, and now I wait to see how people react to stuff before I make decisions about it. BUT. It still happens. I suppose it is a relative of the content ghost, as I mentioned in that post when I wrote it. (Disclaimer: the content ghost is not my idea, it belongs to someone else).

Anyway, I watched the first of the Craft Therapy videos and I thought, "You know what? I am going to treat all this gluing and sticking like book binding, and I'm only going to do it for me!"

(I mean, I do want to sell handmade books, but also I like making them and not having the pressure of having to sell them when I'm done. It is very relieving, let me tell you!)

So yeah, basically the lesson I learnt yesterday while under the influence of a migraine was that I need to make more stuff for no reason. Not like I don't have the time right now, right? (Also I likely will share any good results on the sketchblog, because I do like sharing things with y'all!)

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I did my last big shop update of the year! If you want to order anything from there for Xmas, I suggest doing it now so it gets to you in time!

There will be a smaller update before the end of the year, because I still need to put up the collages I made a couple of months ago, but I haven't decided on a price for them yet. But they should be up before the end of the year, with any luck, and I will let you know when that is!