The second wave of merch will just have two sets of stickers…for a start!
I originally planned to make the acrylic keychains for the TAT gang (the images are ready), but I kinda got stuck on the “chain” part…I wanted to have some simple black cords (colored cords would be even better) to make a tiny charm (that could be decorated on a binder)…but the factory didn’t have those cords, only bead chains or keyring clasps.
Star clasps look nice, but they might not look like small charms for a binder, while bead chains feel a bit…cheap. (Anyway, black cords look cheap as well, don’t they?!) Therefore I might end up choosing bead chains after all.
I also want to fix up Charlotte’s fullbody image slightly. It wasn’t very well drawn (for it’s an old picture from 2016…). Making an acrylic standee will flip it horizontally, which is a bit risky.
And I haven’t finished the images for another set of small standees, so I won’t rush the job.
I was planning talking about the merch, but I’m kinda too exhausted to find out where to start…
Well, firstly I really want to thanks everyone for the support *started to cry*
For example…The idea of these small standees sugguested by a player (who made the first oversea order!)
I was always shocked and very nervous when having an order (that’s one of the reasons that I didn’t look very enthusiastic about the shop…actually I am!) I know I should feel happy and proud rather than anxious. It’s just hard to control it😂
The staff at Afdian (who makes and sells the merch in China) are super nice and reliable, which saves me a lot of trouble…T T However, the work hours in China for me are basically…around 2 AM to 5 AM. I feel like my health might not allow me to keep going like this (:з」∠)
(Well…to be honest they are something I want to make. I know it’s no big deal to anyone else if I make it or not…
(But I’d feel really guilty if they doesn’t sell and just piles up in Afdian’s warehouse…I do hope it sells out soon!😂
…What nonsense am I talking about as a creator (:з」∠)
Anyway, it’s the best thing if you can like the merch (and use them)!!
I’ll keep pushing on 💪!
One thing about making merch is that it’s not just about printing the images. There’s image editing and surveys beforehand, and after receiving the merch, I need to think about the packaging, buy wraping materials, pack every item, take photos, and list them online. The whole process is just…not easy.
I admit that I underestimated the workload of counting items and packaging. Even I got my wraping materials by very fast delivery, usually they still needed at least two days.
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by…
Maybe I made things too complicated for the first wave. I did have a great time (….) trying various papers, bags, and ribbons. This time I calmed down a bit (the stickers are simpler too).
I just bought some colorful envelopes and cute bubble bags for wrapping. Of course, I also printed new seal stickers and some cards as a gift!
Actually, I also made three wooden stamps this time, which were still in the transfer warehouse. Also, I should be traveling during Christmas, and returning at the beginning of January. I won’t bring my pc for the holiday, so I’ll just stop working over Christmas (which means there really isn’t much time left this year…I originally thought about struggling to finish the drawings and place the order before leaving, so when I come home, I could happily receive the goods (like in August), but suddenly…I feel this sounds too familiar…😂 That’s exactly what I thought (and did) in August, and in the end, I was stressed without any rest until the last moment (you never know what will happen when making merch!)…
Not sure if I should rush it ((if not, I’ll think about it next spring or summer.
It feel like a blur after getting back to the UK in September…and before I knew it, even the Singles’ Day (11th Novemver) was passed. Only a month left before travelling…so I hurriedly had the items shipped from the transit warehouse. I hope this parcel, including the postcards and stamps (the stickers were delayed by a few days and I didn’t wait for them), can arrive before I leave.
—So somehow, I ended up listening to the whooshing noise of the deadline again.
How… *looks to the sky*
Time flies too fast இ௰இ
My recent interest has been all about watching movies. I started by rewatching “Vanilla Sky,” and then started to rewatching “Mission: Impossible” again…one movie a day. To me, the first six were all great, but the 7th is difficult to say…
I rewatched “Reservoir Dogs” again today. I was initially a bit shocked by the violent scenes when I first watching it, but after all these years…Yeah it is a brilliant movie.
In the first half of the year (while working on “An Halloween Afternoon”), things were still pretty normal, then everything went beyond my control (I want to go home! I need to go home!).
I watched a lot of Japanese dramas and movies, and completely fell behind on my reading. Now with the year almost over, I may not even reach 20 books—planning to read hard in the last month, or I won’t be able to write for the reading list of the year.
In the other hand, I did watch quite a few movies, although there’s nothing particularly to recommend. Everyone has probably seen the must-watch ones already.
(I sincerely recommend “Vanilla Sky”).
…But I’m not worried about the year-end art summary, 😠 (???).
闲聊 | 第二波谷子！和一些近况
第二波谷子暂且先上两份贴纸吧！
亚克力类，本来想趁这一波先把四人组的钥匙链印了（图不需要加工），但卡在了钥匙链的链上，
原本的想法是做那种黑色的小绳（有彩色绳更好），做一套小小的可以挂在活页本上的挂坠……结果厂家没有小绳，要么是珠链要么是钥匙扣的那种扣。星星扣虽然好看但是配小挂坠可能不是我想要的效果，珠链又觉得有点……简陋，但（黑绳不是更简陋吗所以）最后可能还是选珠链
大立牌还想修一下夏洛特的立绘（画得不是很好，加上全身要左右反转还是有点危），另一套小立牌还没有图，就不硬撑着赶工了
关于谷子的事本来打算说，但是我太混乱了，完全不知道从何说起……
先感谢大家惠顾了55555
比如说这套小立牌的计划是一位海外的热情玩家问的（是海外的第一个订单！）……
每次有订单我都很shock和紧张（你shock什么紧张什么），从打包到人家收到焦虑好几天，其实明明坦率地高兴不就好了吗q-q
需要给自己一些正向反馈……
爱发电这边有爱发电的工作人员（超级nice又靠谱），省了很多心……T T
不过做谷子，再怎么说也要在工作时间交流，对我来说基本就是……早上一两点到四五点，继续做下去感觉我要撑不住了(:з」∠)
（虽然，即使撑不住了其实还是自己想做（自嗨）的东西，可能对别人来说多一点少一点并……没啥差别w
（卖不掉堆在人家仓库里我还会很愧疚，还是希望能早日卖掉的！😂
……作为作者我在胡言乱语些什么(:з」∠)
总之你们能喜欢（能用上）就最好了！！我会加油💪！
做谷还有一点就是，不是印了就完了，前有设计修图和印调，印好了还要考虑和购买包装，然后打包，然后拍图上架，一套做下来也挺……不容易的，我在家的时候就是小看了清点和包装的工作量，从设计包装到买包装材料，tb买东西再快也得等两天嘛，然后打包（最后飞机盒的死线滑铲www
但是上次是想得太复杂了，尝试了各种纸、袋子、缎带，这次冷静了一点（贴纸也简单一点），买的是彩色的信封和泡泡袋^^
当然还是印了新的封口贴和特典小卡！
其实这次我也做了三颗木质印章，直接送到转运仓库了，所以现在还没见到，
另外圣诞节期间应该要去旅游，之后再回家待两周，一月初回来。出门就不带电脑了，所以圣诞节停工（所以今年真的不剩多久了……
原本想着挣扎一下把图画了，走之前下单，回家就能（像八月份一样）美美收货，能看到现货还能搞一搞包装，
但突然感觉这个节奏怎么这么熟悉……😂 八月我就是这么想的↑，结果还不是焦头烂额没有休息搞到最后一刻（做谷子你不知道会发生什么！）……不确定要不要赶工（（不赶就慢慢来，明年春天或者夏天再说
九月回来之后我就一直是个恍惚的状态，一不小心恍惚过了双11，旅行计划一定，发现，这也就剩一个月了，赶紧把转运仓库的东西寄过来。希望在我出门之前这波东西能寄到（有明信片和印章之类的，贴纸差了几天没有等），
——所以莫名其妙地又在死线滑铲了，这到底是（仰天
时间过得太快了இ௰இ
最近恍惚的内容是看电影，先是重温了《香草的天空》，然后沉迷阿汤的盛世美颜，一天一部看/重温完了《碟中谍》1-7，1-6都好好看，7一言难尽，……
今天又看了一遍《落水狗》，《落水狗》看得早当时有点被暴力桥段吓到（），重看了一遍感觉真是……好妙啊（
上半年（做《万圣节的下午》的时候）还比较正常，之后就全乱套了（回家！我要回家！），看了很多日剧和电影，书完全没有跟上，
所以今年快结束了我的书目可能还不到20——最后一个月打算恶补一下，不然年末的书单写不出来 了（
不过电影看了不少，不过电影倒没什么特别可推的，该看的大家应该早都看了www（诚挚安利《香草的天空》
……但是我都不操心年末的art summary，😠（？？？
Here are some recent photos, I seem to have hoarded again orz.
P1, Sunset was difficult to take, but the sky looked really blue.
I still can’t get used to it getting dark at 4:30 pm. I want to hibernate =-=
P2, a Powerpuff Girls pen holder (makeup brush holder) I bought from Shein.
I still haven’t figured out what to put in it _(:з」∠)
P3, A small gift box and some dices from Shein! They look pretty. Now I have a manual random number generator! haha
P4, my curtain lol, with gradient sheer and little stars. It sparkles during the day www (gives off a disco vibe…very amusing) I thought it was too girly when I bought it, but now I completely love it.
P5-6, I made a small note book using the memo block. The purple one turned out to be 75 sheets of paper plus 75 sheets of cardstock…rather than 400 sheets of memo. What can I do with these 7x7cm cards?
P7, I bought three boxes of 400 sheets memo blocks, without know what I was doing…Finally, just one box left, I need to keep using them (.
P8-9, made a small journal for recording journal entries
附一些最近的照片，我好像又攒了orz
P1，为数不多的自然光，夕阳拍不出来但天倒是挺蓝的，每天四点半天黑还是很不喜欢也不适应，，想要冬眠=-=
P2，shein买的飞天小女警笔筒（化妆刷筒），这块一直没想好摆点啥(:з」∠)
P3，shein买的小盒子和骰子！骰子放进去还挺有感觉的～我也有手动的随机数生成器了hhh
P4，我的窗帘w 渐变纱纱上面有小星星的孔，白天就会闪闪的www（有种蹦迪的效果w 很喜感，刚买回来的时候觉得是油腻少女心，现在完全喜欢上了～
P5-6，做四拼一便签本，消耗了不少纸和胶带。这个紫色的我原本以为也是400张，但并不，居然是75张纸加75张卡纸……竟然是卡纸，7x7cm的卡纸能做什么用，突然感觉有点懵。而且下半盒是垫起来的，完全没必要吧……嫌用户的收纳空间太大吗（摇头
P7，当时对材料没有概念，买了三盒400张的便签纸……终于被我嚯嚯到只省一盒了，俺要加油（。
P8-9，边角料做了一个记录手账的小手账本
P10-11, spent the Halloween eve making a junk journal. I actually bought props like pumpkins and little brooms, but Halloween just passed like that (…
P12-14, took a walk in mid-October, very autumnal. I even found a big mushroom under a tree (kinda wanted to journal about the walking, but I doubt I’d do that again untill next spring (it’s cold…)
P15, the honorable retirement of my mini hole punch.
I can’t believe I broke the hole puncher ahhhh… (I made it work too hard, my bad😂 It was a very good puncher!
P16, the afternoon sun shining through the curtain holes.
I really love west-facing rooms (although it’s super hot in the summer). Everything displayed is the stuff I like, and the calligraphy is written by my mom (It’s said something like, “more or less it’s just fine”).
P17, Bar keep and Rosie holding hands~ (I also love this spot on the shelf. It’s the first things for me to look at when I turn my head
P18, this year’s DQ stationery.
They released an A5-sized adventure notebook! The inner pages are also very beautiful. Love it! Better than the A6 planner.
P19 is the Kokuyo loose-leaf notebook. I really like this green colour and this dog
P20 is a beautiful sky, and a rose shooting up into the sky 😂
I wanted to practice drawing and photography, but in the end, my mind went blank then I watched a movie, “The Fugitive”, instead. The 1993 film is truly great🥹
Movies are wonderful.
Making movies is like crafting dreams, and watching movies is like dreaming.
P10-11，在贴垃圾手账中度过了万圣节，其实还买了南瓜和小扫帚之类的道具，但是万圣节就这么过了（。贴得很开心倒是没错……
P12-14，10月中去散了一次步，很秋天了，居然在树底下发现了大蘑菇（（有那么一点点想拿个小本子写写画画记录散步，但一想（尤其现在天冷了）我又能出去几次呢😂（你
P15，光荣退役的迷你打孔器。我居然把打孔器打烂了啊啊啊……（是我让它承担了太多，是我不好😂 买了新的打孔器（和气眼钳，气眼钳还没试用），还是这种小小的迷你的好用
P16，下午的太阳透过窗帘孔照进来，我真的很喜欢西晒的房间（虽然夏天巨热）。摆的都是喜欢的东西，差不多得了是我妈写的w
P17，罗茜店长拉手手～（架子上的这里也很喜欢，刚好是我一转头视线对着的地方
P18，今年的DQ文具，冒险笔记本出了A5的啊啊啊，里面的内页也非常好看！喜欢！比A6日程本好。
P19是国誉的活页本（忘了发过图没），反正很喜欢这个绿色和这个狗狗，
P20是好看的天空，和冲上天空的一支玫瑰😂
想练习画画，也想练习拍照，结果最终还是大脑一片空白去看电影了，
今天看了《亡命天涯》，93年的片真好啊，真好啊，沉浸在汤米李琼斯尖刀一样的演技……和哈里森福特英俊的老脸上555（看脸能下三碗饭系列🥹
电影真好啊，拍电影造梦，看电影做梦（