Window Gifts
I took a break from my Spring. I took a break from what I thought was going to be my Spring. I was forced to take a break from what I thought my Spring was going to be. We pretty much all did. I didn't want to focus on promoting my work and sharing pieces that were for sale. I felt kinda bad about it. Like, I "should" be doing that, this is how I support myself, but couldn't make myself. So I allowed myself to not do that and let that part go until I was ready to take that up again. It took about three weeks. Then I got the opportunity to participate in a virtual art show Art Gone Viral and I replied Yes without thinking. Afterward was when all the doubt three weeks of inactivity allowed to materialized. But you know what? By my saying Yes I sent a signal out there. I was contacted by lovely folks that had purchased pieces from me in the past and were ready for more, generous friends determined they would spend some of their stimulus money on supporting artists they know, people found my work on my Etsy sites and started buying again. And one lovely woman who had bought a large #WindowFramed piece from me a couple years ago thought of me when she was replacing the windows in her historic home (see the image above). She contacted me to see if I would have a use for them. She wanted me to have them and she wanted to commission a piece from one of them for their home, as a remembrance. This generous gift touched me very deeply. It affirmed that opening myself and my business back up, literally and figurately was the right thing to do and at the right time. I WAS going to need more windows. Everything is going to be ok. Thank you Francesca for sharing the window gifts. I promise to find them good homes with good people like you. I'm ready to get back to work.
Be Well my friends,
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