Once upon a time...

There was a woman named Kaitlin. Kaitlin was extremely stubborn and decided that, instead of taking the easy route and finding a normal job working for someone else with wisdom and experience, she was going to start her own art business at the ripe old age of 22. What follows are her adventures (and misadventures) in the world of art, adulthood, autonomy, and alliteration.

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     So here we are. Blog post number one. Not sure how this is going to go, but I might as well give it a try, just like everything else I'm doing lately. So today I went to the county courthouse to get permission to do business under the name of Anorel Arts, my new little art business for jewelry, portraits, prints, and whatever little random baubles I feel like making on a rainy day. As part of getting my DBA, I was required to have the local paper publish an announcement about it for the next two weeks. So, since people are now being informed about my barely-existent business, I figured I should have something to show them on my unfinished website. Ta da! A blog!
     I will be the first one to tell you that, when it comes to being financially independent and running a business or a website, I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm pretty clueless. But luckily for me, they have this miraculous thing called the internet that is helping me set things up piece by piece... after several hours of research a day. So, it may be a while before my business/website is fully functional, but it's going to happen sooner or later! Here's an update on what I'm working on right now:

          * Making a blog (check!)
          * Photographing my jewelry (35 necklaces photographed, earrings and bracelets to follow)
          * Naming my jewelry
          * Trying to get a PayPal shopping cart set up (which hurts my brain)
          * Trying to figure out how I'm going to go about getting a tax identification number
          * Making random steampunk jewelry
          * Signing up for Hatch Market 2010 (only four days left before the deadline! Eek!)

     So that's where I stand at the moment. I haven't even figured out where I'm going to get prints of my artwork made, but as soon as I figure that out, I'll have to work on the purchasing process and pricing (more alliteration! Woohoodle!) for that too. Basically, I have my hands full, and my brain hurts right now. I think maybe I'll sit and stare at the giant box of broken jewelry and random beads that I have in front of me for a while. I like to zone out over the shiny pretty things.