Monday, March 31st 2025: Current Projects, WIPs, Mental Capacity

Even though I'm technically a NEET my brain is filled with ideas and I need to do them. In late May I'll be boothing for the first time ever at a convention, I'll be selling my handcrafted beaded jewelry! So I'm busy prepping the logistics of first-time-boothing. I gotta buy the display pieces, price all my stuff, coordinate with my boothmates, buy packaging, print packaging, prep freebies and other stuff. Speaking of which...

I have a lot of ideas for freebie stickers, most of them revolve around tummy issues, to nobody's surprise- sneak peek here. I don't want/like the logistics of also needing to prep packaging and everything for stickers so I'm making them freebies instead of selling them, lol. They're pretty low-effort to make and I want to spread whimsy and joy. Besides that I'll need to buy some cold laminate sheets because my sticker paper bleeds ink so bad I need to add an extra protectve layer. I've been going back and forth on buying holographic laminate but since it's my first time I'm going to go with a standard glossy. Why am I telling you this? I dunno. I find verbalizing things out loud lets me get my head straight.

I've been putting off a lot of things until the con's over because It's taking up a lot of my mental capacity. I need to print my zine and find a better print shop because the previous one was mediocre quality :/ Hmm what else. I also need to restock on some beading materials because it's a hobby of mine and I'd do it regardless of sales.

I have a google docs page that's just my wishlist and I've color-coded it to reflect importance and categorized them as beauty/fashion/jewelry/misc. It's been growing a lot because of the con prep. I wish I could just buy things right off a shelf but that's not always possible. I don't prefer shopping online because I hate the delayed gratification and the plastic waste shipping creates. I'm planning on not packing my jewelry in plastic as a small act against the plethora of plastics everywhere and in everything.

I've been meandering a lot lately and that's because my brain is also scattered. I'm having fun updating this site and writing silly blog posts because it lets me just word vomit and do whatever I want to my heart's content. And I'm, also practicing using html too so there's that.

Last thing before I go; I'm trying to learn a bit of Dutch again and I've been meaning to study towards getting into a masters program. I'm pretty bad a self-directed learning because I'm a very passion-driven person and once I stop being interested in something it's easy for me to drop that thing entirely and lose the momentum I've built up. I'm kinda scared that might happen to this website but there's no harm in trying to sustain this for as long as possible as a way to test my limits.