Fiction and Reality

by deborah.woehr on May 24, 2009

Yesterday was a very inspirational day that started off early. I’m not sure why, but I struggle to get up all week, only to spring awake on the weekends. As I was working on a design, I kept thinking about the bookmarkers I had mentioned in Friday’s post. There has to be a way to make them on Zazzle, I thought to myself. You’re just not being resourceful enough.

Sure enough, after I had uploaded my finished design, I began trawling through other stores and found this lady who is selling bookmarkers, using one of the business card templates. I couldn’t do anything else just then, because I had to take my son to the hair stylist.

I took a pair of Keds tennis shoes that I had designed (and can’t wear because of my stupid duck feet) to show her, fully expecting her to give me a polite smile and a “That’s cool.” response. Instead, her eyes lit up. She wanted my shoes, but couldn’t afford them right now. So we bartered with each other.

She asked me a lot of questions about the design process and what kinds of things sold on Zazzle. I told her that the shoes were the hardest to sell because they were so expensive, but that T-shirts are the bestsellers on that site. My only regret was that I didn’t have any business cards to give her, so that she could pass them to her clients. Next time.

I came away from that visit feeling elated and possessing new ideas. Another client had come while she was finishing up with my son. This client informed me that the 80s style was coming back. Although she wasn’t too happy about it, I’m glad we’re moving out of the Retro 70s, which hung around way too long.

I figured that once I returned home, I would start researching on that. No, I started thinking about Chapter 12 and how I really should be working on it. But I continued to procrastinate. The result of that procrastination is the mug you see above. Something about Clancy’s quote struck a chord with me. I created a T-shirt to go with the mug, and then I finally got started on the chapter. No, it’s not done yet. So close, though.

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