Now taking commissions
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lizbeeI started a new job this week! It's very exciting, and I was quite prepared to weather the lean period of transitioning from fortnightly to monthly pay.
Unfortunately, due to the peculiar nature of my employment, I don't actually know precisely when I'm going to be paid. Rather than being employed by a company, I'm working for four individuals. Everything is done manually, and judging by my predecessor's emails, a couple of my employers are not great maintaining a consistent payment schedule. My predecessor had a partner, so she apparently didn't mind occasionally being paid late, but I don't have that safety net.
I'm going to be discussing this with my employers next week, and explaining that my rent is due on the last day of every month and I would like to be paid at least 48 hours in advance. But between that and the fact that the bank won't let me put my loan repayments on hold until I can give a specific resumption date, I'm suddenly quite stressed about money.
Accordingly:
My RedBubble store is here.
Quilt commissions
I am now taking commissions for machine-pieced, hand-quilted quilts. Specifically:
iPad/tablet/eReader pouches: AU$75 + materials
Hot water bottle cosies: AU$100 + materials
Cushion covers: AU$100 - 150 + materials, depending on size
This hot water bottle cosy and cushion cover are basically prototypes -- which is to say, I had a cushion and a hot water bottle and needed something to put over them.
Baby blankets (approx 40 x 60 inches): AU$200 + materials
Other: let's talk about it.
You can find some photos of my old work at Flickr.
Now, quilts take a long time to make. My cushion cover and hot water bottle cosy took about two months each, although they were hand-pieced -- I'd estimate about a month with machine piecing. I'm about to finish the baby blanket I started in October 2015. I work for at least two hours a night, at least five nights a week. So, depending on the size of the project and the complexity of the piecing, you might have quite a wait.
This is the baby blanket on the verge of being complete. I have some ... regrets about the colours.
And as you can probably guess, they will not come from a pet-free home. I'll wash them and aggressively lint-roll them before I send them out, but if you are deathly allergic to cats, I would not recommend my quilts.
As for patterns and colours, I am ... not great at geometry. Despite my ongoing attempts to figure out hexagons, I'm best with squares and triangles, and also very specific colour schemes from which I am absolutely not allowed to diverge, or else I end up with weird multi-coloured monstrosities.
Art commissions
For AU$25, I will create a digital Tiny Mood Person, as demonstrated by Tiny Mood Stephanie over at No Award. If it's a Tiny Mood You that you're after, I'll obviously need some photos, preferably at least three of your face and one full body.
Fan art: let's talk about it.
Books
Finally, if you're in Australia or New Zealand, I have half a dozen copies of Companion Piece: Women celebrate the humans, aliens and tin dogs of Doctor Who, going for $25 each plus postage and handling. I can't get Minotaur's site to load right now, but from memory they were selling it for about $40.
Updates
May come, because somewhere around here I still have some of the jewellery and badges I made for the Continuum Sunday Markets in 2014.
Queries, questions, liz.barr (@) gmail.com
Unfortunately, due to the peculiar nature of my employment, I don't actually know precisely when I'm going to be paid. Rather than being employed by a company, I'm working for four individuals. Everything is done manually, and judging by my predecessor's emails, a couple of my employers are not great maintaining a consistent payment schedule. My predecessor had a partner, so she apparently didn't mind occasionally being paid late, but I don't have that safety net.
I'm going to be discussing this with my employers next week, and explaining that my rent is due on the last day of every month and I would like to be paid at least 48 hours in advance. But between that and the fact that the bank won't let me put my loan repayments on hold until I can give a specific resumption date, I'm suddenly quite stressed about money.
Accordingly:
My RedBubble store is here.
Quilt commissions
I am now taking commissions for machine-pieced, hand-quilted quilts. Specifically:
iPad/tablet/eReader pouches: AU$75 + materials
Hot water bottle cosies: AU$100 + materials
Cushion covers: AU$100 - 150 + materials, depending on size
This hot water bottle cosy and cushion cover are basically prototypes -- which is to say, I had a cushion and a hot water bottle and needed something to put over them.
Baby blankets (approx 40 x 60 inches): AU$200 + materials
Other: let's talk about it.
You can find some photos of my old work at Flickr.
Now, quilts take a long time to make. My cushion cover and hot water bottle cosy took about two months each, although they were hand-pieced -- I'd estimate about a month with machine piecing. I'm about to finish the baby blanket I started in October 2015. I work for at least two hours a night, at least five nights a week. So, depending on the size of the project and the complexity of the piecing, you might have quite a wait.
This is the baby blanket on the verge of being complete. I have some ... regrets about the colours.
And as you can probably guess, they will not come from a pet-free home. I'll wash them and aggressively lint-roll them before I send them out, but if you are deathly allergic to cats, I would not recommend my quilts.
As for patterns and colours, I am ... not great at geometry. Despite my ongoing attempts to figure out hexagons, I'm best with squares and triangles, and also very specific colour schemes from which I am absolutely not allowed to diverge, or else I end up with weird multi-coloured monstrosities.
Art commissions
For AU$25, I will create a digital Tiny Mood Person, as demonstrated by Tiny Mood Stephanie over at No Award. If it's a Tiny Mood You that you're after, I'll obviously need some photos, preferably at least three of your face and one full body.
Fan art: let's talk about it.
Books
Finally, if you're in Australia or New Zealand, I have half a dozen copies of Companion Piece: Women celebrate the humans, aliens and tin dogs of Doctor Who, going for $25 each plus postage and handling. I can't get Minotaur's site to load right now, but from memory they were selling it for about $40.
Updates
May come, because somewhere around here I still have some of the jewellery and badges I made for the Continuum Sunday Markets in 2014.
Queries, questions, liz.barr (@) gmail.com
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Date: 2016-01-30 06:51 am (UTC)i guess i could dig some up.
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Date: 2016-01-30 07:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-30 07:47 am (UTC)You can take photos next time I see you if you need? LIKE BRUNCH LETS BRUNCH SOON
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Date: 2016-01-31 06:53 am (UTC)(Actually, which types of product from Redbubble gives you the most profit?)
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Date: 2016-01-31 06:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-31 02:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-31 08:16 pm (UTC)(As for profit, it doesn't make a huge difference across the range -- I have a pretty consistent mark-up. Thank you for thinking of it, though!)
Hit me up by email if you want a Tiny Mood You!