It's OK. I've learned a ton this past year experimenting. And my mom's convinced that Christmas wrapping paper is going to be/should be my breakthrough. (Too bad the paper I bought is semitransparent -- that's the main thing preventing me from throwing anything like these guys up for sale -- pics below -- ok yes i'm oversharing.) I have theories about how to fix the paper problem, and if that doesn't work, who cares because yet again I've been forced to try something new in the face of something I planned not quite working out.

On a sidebar, when I move to a new state mid-this-year, I'll arrive in a town where I actually know someone who co-owns a specialty paper/stationery store. I have a crazy hope I'll have a decent number of really compelling creations by then, and maybe I can lean upon that personal connection and see if they might be willing to carry my stuff in the store. I think that cards and the like probably sell better in person -- the counter to that is a pure-white card is pretty fragile and easy to smudge or bend or otherwise devalue, which is why I haven't tried schlepping all my cards around to the small & local indie art fairs (the most popular of this type of local fair is held at a bar...)

In the meantime, I will continue learning how to make more random paper-related shits!