Dawn Brocco's Life & Design Blog

Sample Sale Coming
As I've been unable to work for nearly a month now, the coffers need refilling, so I've decided to put many of my design samples up for sale. I will post here when the sale is ready. (With all the other work piled up, it may take me a couple weeks to get all the samples ready and the info onto my site, so please be patient!)

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I uprooted the rotting tomato plants and picked some late season lettuce that I planted god knows when, I don't even remember now. It was good to get out into the fresh air. I haven't been outside in weeks, except to walk the dog.

Tomorrow I have the checkup with the surgeon. The gas bubble is dissipating, though slowly.

It's going to be awhile to get ALL this computer related work done, though. I have the Winter Gazette issue to put together from scratch, a booklet to finish making edits to and patterns that need writing up. I've written to the mag about my ad but I still haven't heard back yet. I am VERY unhappy with it, and it cost a fortune to do. I think I'll start that new Peace Fleece pullover, just to lift my spirits, as I'm feeling rather negative at the moment, and I HATE feeling like that, as it blocks constructive action. It just bogs one down.

I do feel though that I put out into the world much more than ever comes back, and I don't know why. Like the Gazette. I've worked long and hard on that publication after 4 years, but I'm down to less than 300 subscribers. I can't continue to publish it at that subscriber level - the cost of production, NOT to even mention ALL the time it takes me to do 4 issues every year FAR outweighs the income it provides. It's a good little pub that looks like it's sliding into non-existence. I'll get the winter issue out, then deal with the question of closing it down or not. I only have so much energy and I'm tired of fighting losing battles. I would really like to WIN at something in my career, not have everything be such a struggle, it's so disheartening. Well, I do have a distributor for my books and that's definitely been a positive for this year. Maybe I just need to focus my energies in that area - let the pub die, and spend that time working on new books. I have no other answer.