Greetings and salutations!

Well, here we are. Guess i should get into the digital age with both feet, eh? I gave my blog the title I did since it seems that someone has gone and absconded with the name Ravensmoon at Blogspot. Well, can't kill them, I guess...

It has been a drear and dismal day. Foetid and Enid as my sister would say. I sit here typing this, as it RAINS outside (whoever heard of it raining in Utah in the winter?) and drinking a leaded Mountain Dew (Mein Herr Doktor told me not to have the caffeine, to whom I say SKROO YOO HIPPIE!) and wondering if I'm ever going to sleep again. I'm sure the Mountain Dew isn't helping...

I'm trying to sell all of the nifty stuff that I make. It's great therapy for me to make the randomness that I do, but it does tend to pile up. Etsy (http://ravensmoonwearables.etsy.com) has been fun (if not the most profitable) for me in that respect. So has Art o mat (http://artomat.org) . I think that the validation that what I do has some merit or value is the most important aspect, to me at least, of creating. Art o mat sends me, along with the quarterly check for sales, a green postcard that alerts me to the status of how much stock they have from me, and where the items have sold. I keep those cards as a memento, as a validation, that someone out there, somewhere, actually put their money in a machine, and of all the options available, chose ME. Because I am what they chose. Every time I make a sale on Etsy, I actually find myself giggling like a little girl. It's the idea that someone is choosing me. It's like being picked first for kickball in 3rd grade. The feeling is worth all of the sweat and toil that you put into what you do.

I have started teaching pottery classes, and that has been rewarding.