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I'm taking quite possibly a forever long break from resin. I might still make stuff because I have supplies left but I don't think I'll be selling anything. I'll leave everything in my Etsy shop up until it expires. After that I'm not listing anything else or relisting the old stuff. I enjoyed doing it for a while but it was so expensive that I couldn't afford to keep buying supplies to make things that weren't selling. I was losing so much money it wasn't worth it so I'm done with that expensive little experiment. I have a part time job again but at least it's not as bad as working at Urban Outfitters. I'm hoping that having a food service j

Things haven't been going so great with full time crafting. It's been about a month and a half and nothing's really happening. I know things take time but I don't really have time. We're living off Jon's student loans and the few shifts he's able to pick up at the mental health clinic. My family is helping out with a few hundred $$ a month but it doesn't even cover my half of the rent. It doesn't help that every day is wet, grey, and cold here in Massachusetts. My spirits are in the toilet and I'm not really sure how to lift them back up. I have a custom order in the works but other than that I have nothing going on. I have a bunch of pieces

I've been a full time crafter for a couple weeks now and let me tell you, it's exciting! Ha. Not really. My day is filled with casting resin, taking pictures of finished pieces, adding bails/jump rings onto finished pieces, the smell of E6000, editing photos, listing things on Etsy, and hoping that someone will actually notice. So far no one has. I don't mean that I'm giving up or anything like that. I know I've only just begun and it would be pretty lame to say "Well it's been a whole week and only one sale! That's it! I give up!". That would be pathetic. But no one feels awesome when their hard work seems to be going completely unnoticed. I