If you had an ideal amount of members to join your club, what would that number be? (you don't have to have a club to answer, we're dreaming here ✨)

Ok guys I'm feeling much better after a crazy few days, to recap I had the flu, one the worst I've experienced...I had a 103 fever for days and in the midst of that I had to help my friend and her 10 month old find a women and children's shelter to stay in, which is actually WAY harder than it should be it took 3 days and buying hotels rooms and calling people...anwayssss Taking my first "time off" from this whole art business journey that I started 8 weeks ago, feels weird and slightly stressful and I wanted to make a post amongst our little group here in case anyone feels the same. In our current climate there's a huge emphasis on social media, speed of growth, and consistency which I'm fine with!! It's how marketing works now and if you try to fight it you probably won't be successful. However...What I'm going to try very hard not to do is to let those "rules" takeover my life and define my self worth. This sounds DRAMATIC but I'm a very all or nothing individual, If I have streaks, I don't like to break them, If I have goals I usually do EVERYTHINGGGGG in my power to reach them. This is not always a good quality, especially in this instance because when days come up where I'm not able to post on my Socials or in this community, I feel I have failed, I lose motivation, I lose my rhythm and I feel like I'm "behind". So I had to remind myself that although I may be my own "boss", I don't actually have one!! THAT'S SO COOL!! Plus I'm pursuing my passion which NEWSFLASH -> I'm meant to enjoy it!!! If I'm behind I can apply for an extension and it will be approved, because I'm the only person I answer to right now. I hope someone else can relate to this, I'm excited to get back at it!!!

My printer came in!!! YAYYYY! I ended yup going with the Canon Pixma G620, and let me tell you, I have ALOT to learn... I dowloaded photoshop, set my dimensions, set to 300 DPI, uploaded my file, adjusted my colors, converted to profile, and then hit print....DISASTER!! The colors are all wrong, I thought I understood RGB and CMYK color profiles but turns out my brain is smooth in this department. AND learning photoshop seems like jumping from arithmetic to calculous... PLEASE SHARE TIPS!!!! 🎨🙏

It's now 9:30 EST and I have not yet painted, drawn, or designed anything... I suppose if you count content creation (filming + editing) you might say I was being creative; I however just feel like my eyes are going to fall out from looking at a screen all day, and like I wasted a ton of time. But I didn't!! I got a lot of things done on my laptop that I've been meaning to do! Why does it feel unproductive? Can anyone else relate?

Ok so I've been doing a lot of research on outsourcing prints verse investing in your own printer. As a tiny art business who hasn't made any sales yet, you may be wondering why I would even consider dropping hundreds of $$$ on a printer with no print orders yet! So let's talk about it! So firstly, I decided that I will be printing on demand in the beginning of selling prints! if you don't know, that means printing only when there's an orders placed as opposed to keeping a large stock of prints in your inventory. This makes more sense for me since I don't have guaranteed print sales coming in, and If I outsourced a large stock of prints, I could end up losing money if they don't sell well ( Fine art prints are PRICEY!! ) Secondly, I'm starting a print club that will include letters, coloring pages, and stickers, so even if I was outsourcing my prints for the club, I would still need to purchase a regular cheaper household printer. Assuming I'm successful in gaining members to my club, I would be going through a decent amount of ink, and because most standard printers run on cartridges, replacing them constantly can get EXPENSIVE. So I would want to buy an EcoTank. Thirdly, ordering processing time. For print orders, I would prefer to send them myself. Many artists like to do this so that they can add goodies to the order, write a thank you card and use their customized packing materials. So FUN!! To do this when outsourcing means the customer places the print order on your site, you then place the oder to the print service, it takes around 5 business days to get to YOU, you the pack + ship it and then it takes even LONGER to get to the customer. I don't know about you guys but whenever I'm ordering something online and it says estimated arrival time is in 5 - 10 business days, I'm immediately turned off. We live in a time of amazon prime and instant gratification...unfortunately😅 So all that to say I have come to the conclusion that hurting my pockets a little bit more now, will save me time and money in the future....what do you guys think?! Would you wait to buy one until you saw print orders coming in?