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Summer expos

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I can't believe it's been almost 2 years since I was last active here. I haven't give up chainmaille, far from it, but outside of the expositions (I'll do a few this summer and I hope they all go well!), I don't get much time to make new pieces. My first summer expo is this week-end in Venise-en-Quebec, and since last year people asked me if I had a Facebook page, I decided to make one, so I spent the whole day taking pictures of my bracelets. Tomorrow I hope to photograph everything else (earrings, necklaces, key chains, barrettes). And I want to do some new pieces before Saturday, but I don't know when I'll have time to do them.
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So I have another expo (for Christmas, but at the beginning of November...) in two weeks, and I don't have half the new pieces I wanted to do because of my supplier's laziness... Or whatever reason he gives me. So I'll try to complete the jade set I wanted (bracelet here : Another Byzantine Romanov bracelet by CynthiaDesgagne) and make more pieces with beads (those are the one that sold the most after all), but I should totally do something with my scales... Like a peacock necklace or something, to put on display and not necessarily sell. I must also make a few pins with my scales (one of my friends want a ladybug pin for her and another for one of her friends, so that's at least 2 sales). I hope I have the time for all that!
By the way, I started school again, and have finished catching up the other students who started two weeks before me. That's why I've been dead up until now, but since last week my evenings aren't booked for school, so I can make new pieces.
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I know some people have been waiting, so there it is! My Etsy shop now contains my six original barrette designs! Here's where to go : www.etsy.com/shop/CynthiaDesga… .
I don't know if I should put the butterfly or the 5 petals flower since they are not my design and the flower is kind of everywhere on Etsy... (I've been through the whole Barrette section using the tag scale and I've seen it everywhere... and some butterflies as well, but not always the same design as the ones I make).
And I have to make a selection of my necklaces, bracelets and earrings to put out there too. Anyone got suggestions? (The scales earrings are out, obviously. I'll keep those for expositions only, I think.)
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I have a lot of beads sitting there. I make a promise not to buy any more until my stock diminishes enough to fit in one basket (right now, it's about 3 baskets, I think). I will buy rings though, I don't really have a choice on that if I want to use the beads.
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One crazy idea

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I feel like I need to write this idea down, or else I'll forget about it. Gold (bottom + dots) and silver (top) ladybug barrette.
Ouff.
Now that it's out of my head, I can continue this journal entry by telling you what's been happening to me.
I still don't have a job and it's too late for registration in most schools, except the very expensive and intensive school in Sherby.
But I should do this in some sort of order.
All right... The last entry I wrote (skipping over the orchid one), I had just been to an exposition in my home village. A bit later, I've been to the second exposition in the location of my first exposition, but I didn't sell much, barely enough to pay for the table and the gas to go there. So next summer, July ok, August no way. They want to have another weekend long expo around Christmas, and I think I'll go. There is another expo around Christmas in my home village too, so 2 expos ahead of me.
I did receive my massive order of rings, but they somehow got mixed up and, when I wanted to buy 500 rings, they ordered 1000... So my budget exploded. But it's "ok", I'll find projects to do with those extra rings. Technically, they didn't receive everything I order, but since the budget is a bit tight, I'll wait until they call (which they were supposed to do but didn't for the first part of my order).
Now, the whole school/work dilemma. I've sent resumes, without results, for a few months now. And my mom is pressing me to find a job, even if it's in a grocery store. But I'm thinking... Working minimum wage won't be enough to put money aside for school next year, so I might as well borrow money now and go to school, right? The school has a deal with one bank to allow the students 2 years without interests, which is kind of interesting because, finding a job right after the school means 1 yer to pay it back with no interest, and I could do it, I think. Just two years squeezing myself.
But the school is started for two weeks already, so I don't have time to think too much if I want to go, because the longer I wait, the longer it will take for me to catch up with the rest of the students and, even if I do understand things rather quickly, it seems more technical knowledge than theory and that can take a while. I'm sure the school will help me too, but it's kind of now or never.
So there is a lot in my mind. Borrowing money can take time, the school might not be taking students, but I can't make a move before knowing where I'll live for a year. But if I can pull it off, it means in a year I'll have an interesting job, and working towards my life goals a bit.
And I've been thinking back on this whole year too. The chainmail's been good, the trip to London was great, but I scrapped my chances by rushing the process. And now I pay the price, it seems.
Anyway... I'm trying to change the things that don't work right now, and I'm trying to expand the things that do, like my chainmail. So I'm writing the description of my pieces and creating pages on my Etsy shop, but I still need to confirm the shipping cost for small boxes. I'll post another journal when my Etsy is going to be fully operational!
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