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2008 Kick Off with Thing a Day
Yup, I noticed that 2008 started a month ago. Lashes with wet noodles all ’round here at HQ. It’s not that I haven’t clayed, it’s just that I haven’t gotten organized at all. So in a bid to get my rear in gear, I set more ambitious goals – even if some were less than successful – and decided to concentrate on the move forward.
Towards THAT goal I signed up for the Thing-a-Day at www.thing-a-day.com – someone on the PCC boards mentioned it. I believe she’s one of the same people who got me trying the NaNoWriMo… a whole other story of insanity.
Anyways, the Thing-A-Day is brutally simple. You make something – anything really – a day and then (ah, the catch) post it to their site. For me, there’s an extra catch – I’m going to try for every one of those things to be clay related. Bonus points if I manage that! It runs the 29 days of February and then you all pass out. Or pat yourself on the back.
Goals: Win Some Lose Some
2007 was a lot of fun and a lot of frustration.
I met quite a few of my clay and craft goals! This was my best financial year for sales, in a row of best-ever years. Production was good – I made more beads than the 5k I planned. Somewhere close to twice as many, in fact. My technique improved and my overall finish quality went right up.
On the negative side, I let my site slide because my online activities were severely curtailed for a few months. That means I didn’t finish 52 weeks of the Year of Clay in 52 weeks. Not that I’m intending to stop now anyways – I’d rather keep on at it and improve in 2008.
I’m still working on my lofty plans for 2008. At least some of that will be a new bead and cane-o-meter, over there in the sidebar. In a few months, the Claychicks will be back after their hiatus and sooner than that Tooaquarius will debut on Etsy as well. Phew! And that’s just a bit of it!
The plus side of making year in planning posts a month after everyone else – it’s not one of dozens!
Year of Clay – Not Flower Canes
I make a lot of flower canes. Sometimes, I need to cane something else.
So the first was a try at a fleur-de-lis motif. The cane came out well, though it needs to be redone in much firmer clay before I use it to make anything for my Scouts-obsessed friend.
The second was a cane of a Sierpinski Triangle which just called to my geeky side. This was actually done earlier by Windell here. I even ended up using blue and white clay. Some of this cane covered a Jacob’s ladder for my brother as I knew he’d appreciate it.
