{"id":5823,"date":"2012-09-22T21:16:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T01:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/?p=5823"},"modified":"2012-09-22T21:16:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T01:16:22","slug":"whats-happening-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/09\/whats-happening-3\/","title":{"rendered":"what&#8217;s happening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/922beer.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5824\" title=\"9:22:beer\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/922beer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know it has been quiet here and that might be true for a while. I have a big, un-blog-able project to finish up. I am heading down to Stamford, Connecticut and going to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niada.org\/conf_schedule.html\">NIADA conference<\/a> on Thursday. I&#8217;m hoping to have my project mostly done although I know in my rational head that that is totally unrealistic.<\/p>\n<p>To tell the truth, my Chicago trip knocked me for a loop. I can&#8217;t blame how I&#8217;m currently feeling entirely on the trip- I&#8217;ve been heading in that direction for a while. I&#8217;ve been spending too much time on things that aren&#8217;t making me happy with the direction my art life is going. I&#8217;ve got to slow down and do some reflecting. Way back in December I was feeling like things were getting off track. The Chicago trip was just the last straw I guess. My mood was off the whole time I was there. I seemed to be feeling very fragile. Loads of nice people came into my booth but I only seemed to hear the horrible things that got said (Really people, do you not realize that the maker of the work is standing right there?!) I was having some vague allergic reaction that was making me itch, part of my display got totally soaked on Saturday night, I had some booth neighbors who need to learn some show etiquette, a giant dog came into my booth and grabbed one of the dolls&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 yep, not a great time.<\/p>\n<p>So, I am trying to imagine how I might redirect my energies in the coming months to get to a better place. Firstly, I will not be doing any Holiday markets or shows this year. I will continue to stock my Etsy shop and that will be how I will manage my holiday season sales. I&#8217;ve got other ideas going around in my head but will keep them to myself for now. I just know for sure that I want to have some time with no deadlines and no demands. Sounds good, right! And, eventually I will post some photos of our trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehouseontherock.com\/\">House On the Rock.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know it has been quiet here and that might be true for a while. I have a big, un-blog-able project to finish up. I am heading down to Stamford, Connecticut and going to the NIADA conference on Thursday. I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/09\/whats-happening-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5825,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823\/revisions\/5825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}