Hardly a Working Stiff

At the beginning of the Summer, I decided to take on a part-time job to fill in the spaces in my bank account that the Big City Bumpkin wasn't reaching. Not surprisingly, it became my main source of income (the majority of my jewelry sales are right before Xmas). If this were some boring office job, I would be complaining... but it's anything but boring!

Yesterday I got to do some of the Halloween decorations, and it was a riot. I went for a "creepy hillbilly" theme, part Texas Chainsaw Massacre, part Deliverance -- being a hillbilly myself, I can get away with those kinds of generalizations, hehe

The view from the top is cool.

I'm taking today to make more of my Chicago flag pendants, which should be available this weekend. I hope y'all are having a good week, and if not a good week then a quick week. ;)

Workin' Girl

As much as I would love to say that the jewelry business has put me into a higher tax bracket over the last few years, that just isn't reality (or at least not my reality). I've got two expensive dogs, one moderately priced studio, and a bad, bad expensive cigarette habit, so the time has come -- I got a real job.

Before you think this means I'm dropping the mic on the jewelry thing, I'm not. This is just a little something to sustain me during the dry spells and artists blocks. A little guarantee that I'll be getting a certain amount every month, so I can relax a little bit, and go back to enjoying making and selling jewelry, without the enormous weight of the vet bills and the once in a while coffees and the car repairs breaking my shoulders.

I'll be working at Ragstock in Wicker Park, which happens to be a store I shop in all the time anyway, and I think it's going to be a blast. I'm starting on Friday, and I'm so hyped about it!  That's the cool thing about a part-time gig -- you can have a little fun with it.

Ragstock - Wicker Park - Chicago

So yup, working this Friday, and next Monday and Tuesday, and I'm super-excited about it!

You can also find me this weekend at the Randolph Street Market! So it's about time I get to work on some more baseball pieces, because they have been selling like crazy this week and I'm running low... It's a lot more fun to work next to that huge (drafty) window though, now that it's not freezing outside. Am I right, Chicago? Seriously, we really put in the work this Winter, it's about time we get to enjoy ourselves.