“Just having sales doesn’t mean the messages I’m trying to share with my art are getting seen by the people I want to see them.”
“I definitely need to approach businesses, which my husband’s been really trying to push me to do because he sells insurance, so it’s easy for him to go knocking door to door. I’m not really that comfortable with that just yet.”
“I haven’t been consistently applying because I don’t want to get overwhelmed to where I can’t finish what I already promised people.”
“There are times where it feels overwhelming. That’s when I’m like, okay, I need post-it notes and I need to print out the calendar for the year. That usually helps get me on track.”
“I’m so grateful for businesses and organizations reaching out to me, but I can’t count on that forever, so I just have to get over it.”
“My book is a story about my father and me. Part of it is trying to share, Hey, that’s a lie. Here’s what I’ve learned since. So it’s partly trying to clear his name and partly trying to share with people that you can heal through traumatic experiences.”
“A good friend and I started checking in once a week: Hey, what have you applied for this week? I realized how helpful that was because it takes the emotions out of it.”
“When it comes to my art, I’m a storyteller at heart, so I want them to walk away with some sort of message depending on what the piece is.”