IT'S 3AM, Friday the THIRTEENTH. EEP. Yeah, I'm still up. I'm beating myself up for being a horrible blogger. I've been exhausted from work; angry patients, insurance issues, crazy-ass cold season. My kingdom for a flu shot! That's how we roll everyday. I'm delirious from the late hour and the fact that I am going to participate in my first official event where I will be selling my jewelry to the public. I have sold my pieces before; the first event was Fanime. A convention that is tailored to those who love Japanese animation, video games, and the like. I sold Katamari earrings at the suggestion of my awesomely creative boyfriend who is snoring behind me as I type. Katamari is a video game that came out awhile back, where the robot prince pushes a huge odd-shaped ball around the earth, collecting anything and everything that sticks to the ball. Many people recognized it to my surprise, hey, the only video game I like to play has guns and zombies in it and I made $300 that day, and not to brag, but I even outsold forementioned boyfriend's great anime drawings! I was very proud of myself.
The next event was a networking party at my sister's house, where I made another $300. She gathered a bunch of her entrepreneurial friends including me and we simply sold our wares inside her home. I even made a custom piece or two, and got a collaboration out of it.
However, after that, I made jewelry but it was sporadic over the years. I STILL have some things I have to take care of, jewelry-wise! Sorry Bimbi :( Had to get a "steady" job, had to take care of just life in general. Jewelry design was unfortunately put on the back burner. I had a number of jobs that weren't a good fit and left only enough time to flop on the nearest comfortable surface and just vegetate. Then a few months back, my cousin Matthew met a girl at a cafe called Paddy's who has her own website called JustPinchMe.com where she sells clothes and accessories but with a Netflix-ish type of selling method. He told her he has a cousin who makes jewelry and the result is that I'm selling my pieces at an event called Hush on Saturday. This is my FIRST official shopping event, something I have been contemplating for several years now. I am freaking out. I may even sell my jewelry on their website. Hence, my faith and energies have been revived and Jenalyn Lorenzo Jewelry is back on.
I have finished pricing the earrings, I still have to price the necklaces but I'll do that tomorrow. I'm getting SLEEEEEEEPY. I hate having this feeling like there's something I forgot to do ... there's a ton of stuff to get ready. I'm SO GLAD I decided to take the day off.
G'night ... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
