Big ol' Art-themed update for everyone: back to school, learning to digitize art for custom embroidery, and life. Hope everyone's doing well or better. I know
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kynn,
hangofwednesday and
arcana_j have been having tough weeks, so let's wish them and anyone else who hanging on like an "OH SHIT" lolcat the best.
The Art of Attendance: Doodling in parenting support class to keep attention on instruction for child's rights in getting public education. I look like I'm goofing off, but it helps me focus on what's being said.
The Art of the Draw: Summer drew a completely awesome still life today since she wasn't inspired to draw anything fantastical. She has taken an important step in drawing to stay limber: when all else fails, draw what's in front of you.
The Art of Resumption: School starts next week for Boy, and by October for Summer. (We have to get her birth certificate, then use THAT to get her a physical social security card, THEN we can register her for high school. Her next six weeks are cramming on what she's been slacking on in homeschool, mainly math and science.) School resuming means I get to GO BACK TO WORK ON RUMBLE GIRLS FULL TIME! YAY!
The Art of Negotiation: King and I will be seeing a mediator to sort out property division, how to manage the house (neither of us can afford, realistically, to live elsewhere), and to work out custody of the kids that means we do it in such a way that King doesn't have to pay child support, which makes him much more amenable. After that, it's filing time.
The Art of Regrouping: the client I have been working with all summer has suspended work on the project. I'm hoping we'll get back to work in a few weeks, but that may not happen. If it doesn't, there goes a couple house payments.
I've been asked about a new project for something cool, and certainly there is something waiting to fill that money and time hole left by the suspended project. Let's call it Rumble Girls and some randome Big Two work. That'd be good. Yeah.
The Art of Learning: I have been teaching myself how to use embroidery digitizing software. It's good I have taught myself so many programs because I understand the "I don't get it" and "I stink at this" stages are steps on the way to accomplishment.
I was about to sell off an embroidery machine passed along to me by
arcana_j, I mean like the NEXT DAY, and Gmail threw this link at me:
http://www.urbanthreads.com/I think I'm being charitable in saying most machine embroidery designs suck, and both those and the ones that don't come in huge packages, are expensive as fuck, and you can't resell ANYTHING with these expensive designs on them. Welcome, head-first, into the arms of gorram expensive hobby. (My dream machine is a Janome that runs about $1,500. Janome fucking rocks.)
Urban Designs completely changed my idea of what could be done with homebrew embroidery digitizing. I am totally impressed and inspired by Niamah's (Nee-uv) entrepreneurship.
Even "cheap" machine embroidery digitizing programs run about $300. for a decent one. I have my beady eyes on Embird, which costs, well, $300. That, in combination with the editor that came with the machine, and I'll be cookin', and will be further diversifying my ability to earn.
The Art of Get 'Er Done: Between adding to my skills and getting Rumble Girls running regularly and with sponsors, I hope to be generating the needed income to get on as a (possibly) single parent.
