I’m about three weeks out, and finally at a point where I’m not asleep 16 hours a day. I did have a few complications, and wound up back in hospital a couple times. But everything’s on the up, so I’m back on the helm. Scooter’s been running everything for me, and it seems to have gone well. So that’s good to know for later.
The only thing I’ve been doing otherwise was going back and forth into town for various follow-ups, and managed a short outing to go get lunch the other day. Which means I’ve had enough energy to start getting back into things. Last time, I mentioned beads, and you can see some of those up now. I keep having trouble getting good photos, but that’s also something that’s relatively low-impact. I think what I need is to grab a second source of light, and get it set up with a tripod and remote, instead of doing it all in-hand.
Some of those beads are more bead-adjacent, because I’ve got a bunch of diamond painting stuff as well. I think today I’m going to pack goodie packs so they’re ready to go. I’ll be putting together a whole bunch of needle minders, both for goodie packs and the listing. I’m going to also set some up for paint orders, using pans that didn’t settle correctly. The alternative is scraping them out and recasting them, but that’s a lot of work for what usually amounts to 2-3 pans.
I’m also going to be making more paints soon. The colour variety isn’t great right now, and I’ve got loads of new pigments to make things even more varied.
Last week I got about 5kg of white floss, which I will be dyeing soon. I’ve been winding it up on a niddy noddy so it’s ready to go as soon as I am. I’m also waiting for a bunch of beads, since those do seem to do well. Recently, I’ve been relisting them as individual colours, since it doesn’t feel very scale-able to add another 30 colours to the original listing. I’m doing the same with the fuse beads and diamond drills.
I’ve also been redoing listing images for patterns and relisting them. There wasn’t really anything wrong with the original listing images, but I wanted them to look consistent. Originally I took the colour patterns down because I wasn’t sure I wanted them listed if I haven’t stitched them yet. But then I realised I might as well just stop drawing them altogether if that’s what I’m going to do. But I enjoy drawing them, so I may as well list them. After all, I bought a wholeass Huion tablet just to make drawing them easier. I also finally reinstalled all my textures to PaintToolSAI, so I’ll be able to get more sorts of details in them. I’m putting those out kind of randomly, and am trying to get it set up so I can just activate one new listing per day.
I do also have a bunch of 14ct and 16ct aida set up to be dyed, but I ran out of time to do that before surgery. When I do, it will be in a slightly different style than previous batches, for variety. I won’t be ordering more fabric until I’m feeling much better, though. So it may wind up selling out for a while.
I have no timeline for any of the new stuff that wasn’t already packaged last month. It will happen when it happens. But until then, I’ve got loads of patterns to put out.
