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I'm now officially selling from my gallery here, though most of what's in the gallery right now is already sold. I've added an Unsold Items folder so people can tell what the exceptions are. I've already had a few sales and commissions and am learning about shipping. It looks like I could ship much more cheaply if I had an account with a shipping firm, but I don't sell enough yet to justify an account. I'm used to selling in person, and am feeling awkward at this. At my table, people can pick up things, look at them closely and from all directions, try them on, feel the tactile qualities, hear the sounds some of them make, smell the waxed wood (but not perfume from the pomanders, as I leave them unscented for the buyer to choose what they like), get immediate answers to questions, and enjoy the whole vending ambiance (and have a mint).

And I am getting work ready for Further Confusion, and then Pantheacon, and so on through the busy first half of the year. Plus I hope to go to MacWorld Expo, Photonics West, WonderCon, ConSonance, Maker Faire and other events I won't be selling at (unless I can get into the Maker Faire Bizarre Bazaar, which is iffy). And clerking on my local election board, and... bunches of stuff.

I hope all is as well as possible with you, my inspiring fellow inhabitants of planet DA.

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