It has been 2 years since I participated in a craft fair. This one on past Sat. seemed less exhausting, perhaps due to it being only one day and with shorter opening hours.
The exhaustion actually came from the preparation work which included designing and launching a website, designing and printing 120 different postcards, and some QA work to make sure the 120 different QR codes on the postcards link correctly to the website. Everything seemed simple as an idea, but execution was a lot more difficult and time-consuming.
I was rather stressed last week running up to the fair. Even days after the fair, I’m still having nightmares and waking up in the middle of the night with headaches.
It’s a bit silly how a little craft fair can raise havoc to my body, I had thrived through much more stressful situations!? Have my body and spirit fallen weak? I think I’ll take some time off work this week to let my body rest and recover.
This week has been another busy week, here are some highlights:
Looking back this past week, seems like I had been pretty productive:
The feeling of finishing my last cartoon panel for the #inktober fest is comparable to finishing a marathon! It was no easy task to follow the random word prompt each day and come up with a cartoon panel that would fit coherently into a story. It was challenging yet fun. I took the opportunity to create a 24-panel fictional story of a (starving) artist ?. It brought back some good old memories of the time when we had to write and illustrate our own story book in primary school. I don’t remember needing to write any fictional stories since then. Anyway, I’m really satisfied with my first #inktober experience, and will likely do it again next year!
The hot summer days seem to have finally succumbed to the cool Autumn winds. It’s a good time to try picking up running again. I managed to kick my lazy butt out the door to run 3 times this week, could barely do 2.5k, but kickstarting the habit wins half the battle I suppose.
