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Today I want to talk about goals and aspirations. Let’s start with *why* I want to be a full time artist. Doing art full time isn’t about building a business or making money for me. It’s about waking up each day and being *happy* to get to work. I majored in English in college because I didn’t believe that I could sustain a living as an artist. And the more and more I get back into creating, the more I realize that if I keep hustling, I can be an artist. I still love English and editing and proofing, but I...

Etsy started out as an amazing platform for makers to share and sell their creations, but over the last few years, things have been changing in a direction that we makers are finding increasingly difficult to support. Did you know that for every listing we make, we are charged a 20¢ listing fee? And every time someone buys that item and it renews, that’s another 20¢. On top of this, Etsy recently raised their cut to 5% of every sale *with an additional* 5% of every shipping fee.Now Etsy is trying to roll out yet another new change that is...

I made a major change to my shop and my pricing. I knew that I was undercharging for my art, but a close friend pointed out to me yesterday just how much and how they’d been able to sell paintings at 4x higher than what I was charging. I decided it’s time to stop undervaluing myself and my art. It’s time for change.  So here’s the thing, under-pricing my art doesn’t just hurt me, it hurts other artists too. If I’m selling my art at a 4th of the price as someone else, it eventually cuts into their sales because some...