For the 3rd year in a row, I will be selling my stuff at the Washington CityPaper's Crafty Bastards Arts Fair. I am super excited. OK that is an understatement. I have known for over a week and was hoping to make 2 new items per day until the fair. The first few days, I did silkscreen a whole new batch of clone shirts, so I have done something. But the quota of two items a day just isn't happening. This is a big day for me because I get to meet so many nice new people and sell so much stuff. I love the planning and crazy energy that go into the weeks before the fair. I love the excitement, but I hate the fear that I won't have enough cool stuff!

Now that I think about it, I realize that I have gotten some stuff done. Said tshirts, sent my little blog book to the editor, designed the cover as well as some postcards and a new refrigerator magnet. But it just doesn't seem like enough to have done in the past 10 days. I feel like I need to put up a giant calendar and fill in the days with a list of the things that I have completed. We used to do something like this when we had a zine. The page layout would go up on the wall and we would cross of pages when they were done. I used to stay up all night long to finish it. I miss being able to stay up all night long and work on a project. I am just too old and tired now. I laughed as I wrote that because I don't feel old at all. I was wondering today when I would feel old. And do old people "feel" old. It is just their shell that is old, really.

Jeff and I are also doing the Philly Zine Fest the weekend before Crafty Bastards, so that is one more weekend without time to get anything done. Poop! I actually think I might have to re-evaluate my line of items because the girls just won't let me make jewelry. They always want the beads and the ninjas and the bait. They love the bait. But it ends up in their mouths, which is kinda funny, but not safe. I have found that a sheet of stickers will keep them busy long enough for me to make a necklace, but that is getting costly!

I am going to get one of my shirt designs printed professionally on American Apparel girl fit Ts (and maybe some boy shirts, too). I think it might be a brand new design, actually. If you have any sugguestions as to which design it should be, email me.

So, 59 days to go. I will start posting pictures of what I get done each day... maybe that will help!