Hope everyone’s having a fantastic weekend. Mine has been up and down. I don’t mean to beat a dead horse, but I’m gong to anyways; my internet has been down all day. However, my niece visited me for a little while which brightened my spirits a bit. At the very least, she helped provide a welcome distraction from the tech issues I’m having. Also, I got an email from my service provided and so things are beginning to move along.

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With my Internet still giving me problems on a daily basis, I’m channeling my frustration into motivation. The downtime is reminding me that I still need to work harder in order to turn this daily habit into a way for me to make a living. I still have to find something in my artwork – in my skill set – that can resonate with complete strangers. I need to find my niche, something people will recognize as something uniquely my own.

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It doesn’t feel like I got much done today, despite spending over an hour working on this picture. It’s just that those damn books take so long to do. I’ve got a lot quicker at it, and found a few extra shortcuts as well, but it still takes a long time to get them to look the way I want them to. Especially those books on the right shelf! They’re on a completely different angle so I have to spend extra time with those ones.

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I got one of the best compliments that I’ve ever received today. It was from my 8 year old niece, Emily. I showed her what I’ve been working on (So that would be yesterday’s version of my library), and her immediate response was, “Oh wow! That looks…real!” and of course, it doesn’t look like “real life”. It took her an extra second to come up with the word “real” to describe what she was looking at. I’m positive she meant “professional”, or at least that’s how I’m taking it.

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