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so i’m gunna vent & project some positive emotions that i’m feeling rn. freelancers and artists will relate but mostly humans. a month ago i knew commissions alone weren’t going to sustain me during quarantine. & i was heart broken bcos since december i had been prepping new
work to share at events, tournaments, & art festivals. i had invested a lot of time & work into getting a setup ready for events then to see months (if not a year’s) worth of effort crumble ...u get it. we all had plans for 2020 anndd now we are all swimming
thru shit we couldn’t have foreseen. idk bout u but i could write a gdam rock opera from the amount of drama my family is juggling rn lmao & i might if i collapse under the weight of it. i say all this bcos last year i was numb & this year i want to do more than survive. a month
ago i started to feel helpless again, hard convos i had w family weighed on me. i called my grandma & talked w/ her cos that always makes me feel better & she told me how crazy her deli/ grocery store has been since covid started (my gma opened her own deli n grocery
store over 30 years ago) & she said things have nvr flown off the shelf so fast. she said they were out of essential things they normally carry— one of those being hand sanitizer. & that a lot of people were coming in sick i asked her if she should be home, and not workin
she kinda sighed & said my uncle was making sanitizer & trying to teach people how to be careful about not spreading germs- esp in the store bcos my gram is in her 80’s & most of their employees are older or have compromised immune systems. bleh
anyways i went to bed stressed out that night. worried about my gram. worried about keeping up on my bills. this might sound meh to some of you but my gram told me make my own hand sani & i sat w/ that thought before running upstairs to ask my roommate/ business partner
if we could actually make a legit hand sanitizer that is effective. We both just stood there looking at each other & she said let’s research. 3 weeks of research, ordering of product, mixing, testing , drafting up brand / ordering labels, i called my grandma &
told her my best friend & i had a product we were rlly proud of & asked if she would sell it in her store—she told me to ship her 25 bottles.
she was really proud of me & that feels good. i am proud of the work we’ve put into this.
lmao at one point we were like, ‘how tf are we gunna take product photos in quarentine’ we set up a makeshift studio using cutting boards & here’s the baby...
lmao at one point we were like, ‘how tf are we gunna take product photos in quarentine’ we set up a makeshift studio using cutting boards & here’s the baby...
taken on my shattered, very much broken, and otherwise useless phone, using natural light. still surprised w/ how well we were able to pull this off.
thanks for reading. if u want to try our hand sani its on our site for now. if it goes well i’ll be keeping it in the shop and offering it at future tournaments and events http://www.whorevermore.com
i hope whoever is read this can find a way to cheer for themselves, and what they love. b kinder & more compassionate to urself especially when u feel nothing is working out. be proud of what u can do. it might not be easy rn. cry when u need. forgive yourself when you can’t. pls
