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Studio Awesome Challenge Day 24: WIPs I am on the fence about

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There is another pile in the WIP stash that is way larger than I would like. And to be honest, I am using this blog post to really suss out my feelings about each. Now I know everyone is going to have an opinion about saving the projects I am about to list. And while...

Studio Awesome Challenge Day 23: When bad things happen to good yarn

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WooHoo!! Alright, here is the official WIP purge. So for the most part the yarn is worth saving. But I thought you might like to hear the post mortum of these projects gone horribly awry. I love this yarn, and I have a metric tone of it. I was going to make a...

Studio Awesome Challenge Day 22: WIPs That Are Staying In The Project Basket

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YAY!! welcome to the first day of Week of WIP flash. Today I am sharing with you the projects that I consider my Works in Progress (WIP). These are the ones I intend to finish. No, really… Okay, this post is gonna be picture heavy post. Because I have… ...

Studio Awesome Challenge Day 21: Week of WIP-Flash

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Alright Y'all, I have been eating this frog for the last few day. I have been diving deep into my current WIPs and have come out with what I am considering the projects that I am pulling out of limbo that I want to either complete, frog, or am somewhere on the fence...

Studio Awesome Challenge Day 20: Working the Merc Rx for big purging

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So Mercury Retrograde (MercRx) started yesterday. No wonder I was able to get so much studio-purge stuff done. For those not into astrology, Mercury Retrograde happened 3x a year (except for this year where it is happening 4 times....F. you 2016). For the most part it...

Studio Awesome Challenge Day 19: Yay progress on the WIPs and Stash

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I am feeling good about the progress today despite the fact I was up late and stayed up late last night. Notions sorted, and organized (not much to purge, I suppose I have already purges many of them in the move). Yarn and WIPs being culled through. I am finding far...

Studio Awesome Challenge Day 18: No Excuses

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Okay, let me just say. I am tired of my own excuses. I have a little less than 2 more weeks to get this studio In order and that includes some serious plans for the holidays. I am frustrated with how messy the studio still is. I mean, progress is happening. It is...

Studio Awesome Challenge Day 17: The dreaded wrangling of the files

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I know I am not along here. Sometimes the hardest part of getting things done is really about inertia. The task seems so huge (emphasis on seems). Once I buckle down and get shit done (eating that frog) it takes next to no time to complete. Sometimes all it takes is a...

Studio Awesome Challenge Day 16: Go to Your Room!!!!

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Confession time, y'all. I did not spend a whole lot of time in the studio today. I had a computer glitch to investigate and some Christmas present planning that is taking over my drafting table as my mail orders arrive. But other than that I spent the day planning out...

Studio Awesome Challenge Day 15: Getting out of my own way…

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So one of the things I seem to fall down hard on, is settling on a project management system. I know it seems like overkill for an art business. It is something that was key to finishing large projects on time when I was an art director. I still use it when I build...

Studio Awesome Challenge Day 14: Mid-way Assessment

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Okay...so I am a day or two shy of a real midway point. But this is newsletter day, and I wanted to share in a broader way about how having an awesome studio is shaking out really to be more than just cleaning and organizing my room. If you would have told me 10 years...

Studio Awesome Day 13: Getting clear on ALL the steps

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One of the things that has been languishing not just on my studio lis, but on my general business to do list, is making an operations manual. I know it seems like a bit of overkill for a creative type person, to outright make a manual of all the steps I go through to...