Thrills! Chills! Bills! 💀

It's October 21st and the clock is ticking!

While all my friends are enjoying the upcoming Halloween festivities, discussing scary movies and debating the purpose of candy corn...Im fully involved in matting, printing, shipping and working for the rent. Im in my own scary movie 😜😂 but I have my good humor about it.

(Matting all the things to ship out)
I was blessed with sales the past two days and a friend threw me a little gig helping her pack yesterday so the electric bill has been graciously split into two more manageable payments after paying a good chunk of it yesterday. It got me in survival mode for sure...I have rounded up:
Candles, a metal percolator, charcoal, fuel, a little fondue set that I guess I thought I could heat simple liquids in like soup etc...and batteries.
At least if there's an outage Im slightly more prepared 😂
I missed the Fair this year but I'll shoot for next year. I upgraded my living situation but it came at a price..more rent due. So now I have to upgrade my working situation so it balances out. Working on it! This month has been a reminder it's all on me to make that magic happen...waiting for second parties to get to round two and cut checks...that's asking for lights out.
Getting my business off the ground is where my head is right now.

Nothing makes you feel more abundant than being able to help someone else. I happily donated this 24" x 24" gallery wrapped canvas painting and art print to a local artists cancer fundraiser. Auction details TBA.

Can't say enough THANK YOUS to everyone who made purchases and donations to help me out. ❤

Fingers crossed my Mom finds a house soon. Fingers crossed I can keep hustling to get the rent together. Fingers crossed those invisible checks find their way to me soon. I think I ran out of fingers to cross 😂
But TODAY- we're alive, hopefully healthy and we have orders to ship out and hustles to hustle.
You guys watch some scary movies for me and eat all the candy. Hopefully I can resume an easy pace in time.
Oh just added that BAT PRINT to my Shopify..and still 30% off with code FALLSALE 🎃 Tell your friends, get some early holiday shopping done and eat some candy corn!

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