Take a Deep Breath...

...and just breathe. Things will get better, we will be OK.

I need to 'ohm', I think. In the land of HipScraps, everything is chugging along nicely, things look good. I've made a sale, I have 'spec' inventory that I simply need to get photos done of to post to the store to launch it, there seems to be a modicum of genuine interest in the product...I'm positive, I'm optimistic.

Outside of the HipScraps world, things aren't so good.

I have a full time job, as a contractor, working for a very large, well known company, for their client, also a very large, well known company. I was hired originally last year on a one year gig with the expectation that I may be hired on full-time after a year or so. I'm not being hired on full-time - yet - and my contract ended on, of all days, my birthday. My boss tried to extend my contract, but there have been...issues...and I have not worked for two weeks now. I get paid weekly, so I have now not been paid once, and even if I get to go back to work this week, I won't get paid this coming payday, either.

Compounding this is that my fiancée also works with me, and is also a contractor, and also has been out of work for two weeks while they sort out the whole deal.

This means that as of today we have less than 25 dollars between us, and his bank will be charging him two overdraft fees by the end of the day today.

<sigh> Things will get  better, we will be OK.

I try very hard to be positive, but sometimes I just want to scream and curl up in a ball in a corner. We filed for unemployment, but waited a week before we did, thinking we were only going to miss a day or two.

I am trying to keep myself busy, work on making more product, trying new things, but soon enough I will run out of supplies altogether and then I will likely freak out.

Sorry for dumping all this here, but I needed an outlet today.

In lighter news, I made a thing last night. Not sure what it is...sort of a flower/tassel thingie made of beads and fabric circles...I was just fiddling around. Here's what it looks like:

If I were to use this idea for tassels, it could possibly work. I could also see it as a hair thing, I dunno.

Well, that's all I've got for now, y'all. Laters.