Do you remember in my last post how I mentioned that the little guy in a truck was from one of hundreds of miscellaneous game and playing cards I have that I’ve been thinking of putting into grab bags for my Etsy shop? Well I seem to have underestimated. I spent a few HOURS of my afternoon today collecting them all up and attempting to shuffle them up so they are as randomized as possible for grab bags. The grand total? 2,040. The picture to the left shows them sorted into stacks of 100. Yeesh… now to figure out how to price them, how to photograph them, what size grab bags to do… I can’t decide if 100 is too many. Maybe more than one size of card grab bag? Like, say… 20, 45, or 100. I’ve been round and round on these subjects for months now, which is why they are still not listed. It’s kind of driving me crazy because I think these are such a cool idea – the fun of looking through a random handful of them, seeing what ideas it sparks, it’s like Muse Wake-Up Juice. Hmm. I suspect this is one of those cases where I’m just being ridiculously indecisive and I should just make a choice and go with it. I’m very open to suggestions though! Feel free to tell me what you think.

While I’m on the subject of studio pictures, I know I’ve been promising to share more of my big nesting project, so while I had the camera out I took a picture of the jungle – er, my workspace that is. The walls look very festive, look at those. Ignore the chaos going on on the tables (and let’s not even TALK about underneath!) while I try to wade though piles of stuff I’ve been meaning to list in my shop for ages. One of my goals for the year is to step things up with my shop, so I am trying to focus a chunk of my energy there. I listed a couple new things this afternoon, watch faces and keys I’d had all

packaged and photographed for a few months now. I wish I’d done it sooner, but thonestly it’s not as if I had the time. And wishing things were different doesn’t change anything, only acting on that desire does! On that note, I think I’ll attempt to make tomorrow even more of an Etsy Day and list the rest of the stuff I have packaged and photographed already. And hopefully sort things out with these darn cards! After that, on to sorting out game piece grab bags!