Ko-Fi Makeover

Today I spent several hours editing graphics for my Ko-fi page.

In the past I have kept switching back and forth from it being for my crafts to it being for my writing. Back and forth, over and over. Decisions are hard, and we’ve concluded already that I lack the ability to niche down at all. So today I decided that there, like here, I’m just going to stop trying to squeeze my square peg into a round hole.

Ko-fi is a site where you can take “tips” or “donations,” but it is much more than that. You can set it up like a patreon with hidden content for paid members. You can also open a shop there, which is something I hope to utilize to my advantage. The shop lets you sell both physical and digital items. So if I do decide to go digital with my mail club when I get it figured out then I’ll probably do it through there.

I can also use it to sell ebooks in the future if I so wish.

For now I plan to use it as one of the places I’m going to try to sell the things I craft, to help generate money not only for more craft supplies, but for further publications.

WIP Wednesday

Speaking of crafts, I have a few I’m working on that I need to get a move on. Right here is a SMALL cross stitch of a mushroom that I should be almost done with by now…but I kind of keep just not working on it.

Other Works in Progress include:

• Tracing/carving some images onto/into rubber blocks for block printing.
• Removing the sleeves from a torn t-shirt and using it as my first print on fabric test.
• Work on/finish the diamond art that I’ve been working on for literal YEARS so I can move on to the next one I want to work on.
• Make the large coaster I told my son I would make just for him to hold his chicken nugget plates on.
• Finish the frog I have a commission for.
• Get Settled into my new journal.

Chaos Journal

I have finished Chaos Journal #4 (the one on the left) and will be moving into #5 (the one one the right) today.

A chaos journal is sort of a beast of my own invention. A lot of journals have journal ecosystems, where they have a different book for every kind of journal they keep. I was trying to do that as well, only to find that I just….stopped journaling altogether.

So a Chaos Journal to me is an amalgamation of all the other journals I would like to keep. Dream journaling, book reviews, Commonplace notebooks, junk journaling, daily journaling, art journaling, bullet journaling, they all go into this one book.

It is handy to have all my brainstorming ideas in one spot when I want to remember something, and it is also fun to watch how the journal changes as I use it over time.

To be loved is to be changed.

Lastly for today, this is the social media link image I made for my Ko-fi today. I think it’s cute. I’m thinking of making a smaller one as a signature to sign off my different types of blog entries I might write.