well.. younger daughter and i share my car, so that's where we're at now

I asked Derpy if we could share his car, but he seems to think I can't fit in it. *shrug*
Oh well.

If I ever get my license mom thinks that grandpa might just outright buy me a car

LOL Kaderin!

that's pretty cool Kitalpha!

He has excellent credit so he has always cosigned, and usually after a year or two pays the rest off entirely
They have money, able to do that kind of thing, but they aren't loaded. Just lived smartly

sounds like my parents. many of their new cars they bought they paid for in cash, and only had to finance the last few cars. i understand how to live smartly, but our credit card bills are kinda insane... *sigh*

Yeah being dealt a bad hand doesn't help

no..... no it doesn't. *sigh* it seems to get better, and then more bills happen. ugh.

Well, if anything like what mom and dad have going on is an indication, baby steps
But that doesn't work for everyone, so I get if you can't follow that

what we're doing now seems to work, but we still end up with no savings. *sigh*

I bought a lot of fabric yesterday...
https://i.postimg.cc/Rhm3M4dL/20200806-193509.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/6QD2mdGS/20200806-193610.jpg

i got that kitty fabric with the floofy kitties and the pumpkins - i have some with the orange pumpkins, and another one you didn't get with a purple background! :)

We didn't get in one with the purple background or I'd have it too. Just the grey and blue ones.

aww, the purple one is cute. also the cat reminds me of my new guy, Rocky

Is the Starry Night one at Joann? I wonder if the one here has it, although it's still a bit of a drive.

It is at Joann, yes. It's a Keepsake Calico and isn't a true Starry Night as it's just the sky/stars but not the ground/village part, but still really pretty. I may make a dress with it.

The thread spool one is so meta

There's also one with sewing pins I might pick up later. I figured sewing themed masks would be appropriate for my shifts at JoAnn.
XD

I actually like how it's just the sky portion for the Starry Night one.

I wound up limiting myself on the dog themed ones. Mostly because a lot of the ones I liked were on Spoonflower.

hmm... maybe i *should* get some fabric with yarn on it... XD

Bio - I've gotten a LOT of my fabric swatches from spoonflower :)

Yeah...I thought about getting some fabric from Spoonflower, but I talked to someone who made a mask with fabric from them and it broke several of her sewing machine needles. Something about the way they print the designs apparently can lead to the material being harder to sew through. And I fight with my machine enough as it is. Though I may get a couple small sample cuts for Derpy skirts anyway since those are simple, minimal sewing (I just fabric glue the hem up, so it's just hand sewing the fabric to the elastic.)

fair point, Kaderin. the fabric does remind me of a piece i got from my mom - i asked her to print one of my pics on printable fabric, and it was a little thicker (if that's the right word?). but as i hand-sew my masks, i've noticed the fabric is a little more than the cotton I've gotten at JoAnn's.

It's easy to go down a rabbit hole there, because once you find a design that is actually well made you can find more good ones from the same designer.

i completely agree with that, Bio!

Derpy waddles in, dragging scraps of fabric and chanting "more skirts! More skirts!".

Derpy, never stop being your awesome self! :D

My sister sent me a link to spoonflower, so I could make fabric patterns
Undecided if I want to or not tho

Oh, maybe the denim needles will hold up better for the printed ones? I did get some of those to use with the duck canvas for the masks, and just overall thicker layers.

Derpy waddles over and hugs your ankle, somehow managing to get the fabric pieces tangled up in the process. "You too!"

aww, thanks Derpy!

slowly accumulating all the stuff I need for my SCA 'Sona.

Experimenting with my black aluminum scales and multichrome nail polish...
https://i.postimg.cc/28MvXfd5/20200811-081850.jpg

Am thinking I'll need something stronger than normal top coat for them though so am gonna eventually test both gel polish top coat and uv resin to see which one holds up the best.

Oooooooohhhhh

finished spinning up the Icelandic wool... decided to give the Welsh another go.... after much shaking out of guard hairs. still a lot of those left, but not much I can do about it... gonna work on the Eider after I spin up the Welsh and get it onto a bobbin.

Question for anyone who does art stuff... how you feel / handle that previous requests / commissions you've done are lower quality than what you can do now?

I was comparing a piece I just finished to one I did a couple months ago when I was just starting. Literally worlds different. I don't think it's sustainable to redo old requests for everyone. But I feel.. idk, weird about it.

I don't make art, so I can't offer advice or anything from that point of view, but from the perspective of someone who has bought art back in the day (granted, 99.9% of the time, it's been online currency only, not rl cash), I feel like it's kind of a given that artist's skills and styles will evolve and improve over time, so it's never bothered me to pay for art and later see an artist having higher quality art.
Not sure if that helps or not though.

I'm going as far as say that back then you were doing the best you could with your art abilities, and it's only natural you improve with practice. So why worry? You were not ripping off any customers - they looked at your samples and liked your style enough to commission you.

If they liked what they got, then leave it be

Okayy, thank you guys. I know logically what you're saying is right, I just still feel weird about it haha.

Trying to find fabric so I can work on my clothing challenge outfit.