Zero to Sixty in One Day

Sorry!

I have been cleaning and deleting (mostly culling) pictures from the Comic Con trip. I was hoping to get a post up this weekend. Really!

Then I got the email. "Would I be interested in doing a short production run of enamel pendants?" from a person who had contacted me earlier this year. Sure! Of course! So we went back and forth, discussing sizes, colors, etc. I asked, "When do you want them?"

....you want them when? In time for Burning Man? The same weekend as ArmadilloCon, aka my next show? THREE WEEKS FROM NOW?

...you want how many? THIRTY WOULD BE NICE?!? With HOW MANY COLORS?

....sure....?

Today I went and bought copper and got it cut for 36 blanks. Customer is the having rubber stamp made locally and I can pick it up tomorrow (though it will probably be Monday; I plan on being at my workshop pretty much all weekend, or as long as I can stand it until the heat drives me out).

This weekend I need to get a bunch of bracelets made for ArmadilloCon, and get all the blanks sanded, sharp edges ground off, add holes for bails, etc--get them ready to enamel. The grunt work.

Monday I bring home the kiln and start enameling on the pendants and get a sample done ASAP so I know I'm going in the direction they want. Then I work out on the patio every evening and all next weekend so I can get them in overnight FedEx by the 24th. And ArmadilloCon starts the 26th.

Seriously, both folks involved are also artists. You think they would have given me just a wee bit more notice. *sigh*

Off to bed so I can get to the workshop early in the morning before the sidewalks start to melt.