I am currently very impressed with my council's bulky item collection team. I submitted a request to have the tumble dryer (and some other stuff) picked up at the beginning of last week, and they came around twenty four hours later and picked it up!
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I'm pleased about that, because it had already been out there ten days from the date me and Jackie moved it, and I feel self-conscious about a lot of stuff being out there, even though I don't do it that often (last time was literal years ago).
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In other news, I made another sketchbook wrap (link goes to my ko-fi), partly for myself, and partly as a test to see if it would be a viable thing to sell/offer as a commissionable object. It took me around 20 hours to make and, at £10 an hour (which is slightly less than current UK minimum wage), I don't think anyone is going to want to pay me £200 for one.
I mean, there are ways for it to take less time - this was all hand-sewn, because that's how the original tutorial I watched had done it. So, like, I could machine sew parts of it, or make it less faffy (I didn't even put any decorations like special stitches or beads on this one I just made, and it still took that long!) But honestly, I dunno. Maybe I need more confidence in myself to think that my work is worth £200, and someone might buy it.
I know this is a problem with all hand-crafted things. I used to underprice my work SO MUCH when I was younger and I probably still do it now - the prices on the embroideries in my shop are guesstimates, but they're closer to the prices they should be.
I am mostly just venting my frustration. I know there's nothing I can do because, as I have repeatedly said to former bosses, you can't force people to buy things.
I think also I am feeling a bit frustrated with the felting, because I don't know what I'm doing, and I don't feel like I have any concrete ideas about anything, and that's leeching off into other things. That said, I did find a tutorial in one of the Stitch back issues I have for making your own felt from wool, but it is wet felting, which I'm not really interested in, but who knows till I have a go, right? (It just feels like an incredible faff to me, and I'm too tired to faff with stuff).
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Anyway, that's all I have for now, I think. Life is very much a work, sleep, video game cycle right now, and that's not terribly interesting.
\o/
I'm pleased about that, because it had already been out there ten days from the date me and Jackie moved it, and I feel self-conscious about a lot of stuff being out there, even though I don't do it that often (last time was literal years ago).
~
In other news, I made another sketchbook wrap (link goes to my ko-fi), partly for myself, and partly as a test to see if it would be a viable thing to sell/offer as a commissionable object. It took me around 20 hours to make and, at £10 an hour (which is slightly less than current UK minimum wage), I don't think anyone is going to want to pay me £200 for one.
I mean, there are ways for it to take less time - this was all hand-sewn, because that's how the original tutorial I watched had done it. So, like, I could machine sew parts of it, or make it less faffy (I didn't even put any decorations like special stitches or beads on this one I just made, and it still took that long!) But honestly, I dunno. Maybe I need more confidence in myself to think that my work is worth £200, and someone might buy it.
I know this is a problem with all hand-crafted things. I used to underprice my work SO MUCH when I was younger and I probably still do it now - the prices on the embroideries in my shop are guesstimates, but they're closer to the prices they should be.
I am mostly just venting my frustration. I know there's nothing I can do because, as I have repeatedly said to former bosses, you can't force people to buy things.
I think also I am feeling a bit frustrated with the felting, because I don't know what I'm doing, and I don't feel like I have any concrete ideas about anything, and that's leeching off into other things. That said, I did find a tutorial in one of the Stitch back issues I have for making your own felt from wool, but it is wet felting, which I'm not really interested in, but who knows till I have a go, right? (It just feels like an incredible faff to me, and I'm too tired to faff with stuff).
~
Anyway, that's all I have for now, I think. Life is very much a work, sleep, video game cycle right now, and that's not terribly interesting.
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