The NorthWesternBelle

This post has been a long time coming, considering this project was accepted in November and finished in December 2017. Better late than never, right? Right. (Edit 3/16/18: I did make a couple of videos about this project! Check them out here: Part 1 & Part 2 .) Spoiler! They're awesome. So, pretty much as soon as I lost my job at the end of October, my mother in law commissioned 30 mugs - 10 cat themed and 20 dog themed - to be Christmas gifts for her pet sitting clients. I'd never taken on such a large project, but I had the time to do it, so I was excited! And also seriously nervous about getting that many mugs through the entire process with enough time to ship them to NM before Christmas. To-be cat mugs. Dog mugs. The dog mugs were thrown to be 4" tall and 4" wide. The handles were all hand-pulled. Right about midway through production of all the cups, the studio hired me as a part-time office assistant. I went from spending two and a ...

Welcome to March! February was too short, but March is already looking like an exciting one. More on that later. February's recap is in video form! It's mostly video captured via IG Stories, but there's also some photos that haven't been posted yet. Enjoy. I know I teased y'all last month with hints of big things to come. Said thing are still in the works, but I'm also still reluctant to go into too much detail about it, bc I'm superstitious, I guess? Or I've just learned over the last 10 years that failure is a humbling experience. Being an entrepreneur is not an easy road, but it's one that I want to travel. I took the easy road for 12 years, and spoiler! It only looks easy. It's actually demoralizing, stressful and not the environment in which I can thrive. So, the big things to come involve creating an environment in which I want to spend all my time, surrounded by stuff and people that give me the ability to create art and useful stu...