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My Etsy shop is still open and my stockists still have stock, but I am taking a break from making any new work.  I’d already taken a break from selling at markets, so I didn’t need to make more stuff as regularly, and then I started to not want to look at the mess of materials I wasn’t using all over my work table. So last weekend I packed it all up and put it in the basement, and set up my sewing machine in its place.

Since not selling at markets I’ve had time to explore some other interests: I took a class and realized I hate silkscreening, took another and realized it’s not that I don’t know HOW to sew, it’s that my old sewing machine was busted. So I got a new one.

I took a drawing class. I took an improv class, which helped me get over the horrible stage fright I’d developed last year and which I realize may have in part been caused by me trying to do too much: Last year was a roller coaster ride of moving, doing my first trade show, doing the Union Square Holiday market, doing too much work for my Etsy team, on top of weekly markets and a full time job. Not to mention the three months of sleeping on an air mattress while we renovated.  Burnout was definitely setting in.

I just finished taking a sketch writing class and am in the middle of a fiction writing class. I’m having a bit of a me-aissance. And maybe Wabisabi will fit in again when I’ve spent a little more time on this.

UPDATE: If you’re wondering what I’m up to, for the time being I am holed up at my old blog and posting there.