[Insert something about being an adult here]

I'm a big kid now!
Sort of!

Well, I got an internship for the summer. Only problem is that it's unpaid. It's with this nice lady who works out of her home in Oak Park. She's a freelancer and seems to have a nice, steady stream of business. I'm hoping that I can learn a good amount from her so I can do some of my own freelancing and not totally f it up. Also, I'll own the work I do and have the rights to it so I'm not getting totally robbed and I'll be learning a lot from her.

Also, her house is the cutest thing I've ever seen. You can totally tell it belongs to a designer and an architect (her husband). It's small, but it's super cute. She may or may not be Martha Stewart in disguise. Anyway, so I'll be working part time for her, a couple days a week for the next 8 weeks. After that I figure I'll look for a big girl job or start freelancing. It doesn't pay, but it's a good way to transition from college to a full time job. I'm going to learn some things I can apply to a full time job and some things I can apply to freelancing.

I'm planning on expanding my Etsy shop too. Soon, hopefully, I'll be working on some greeting cards to put up for sale. I've got two designed right now, a Christmas card and a Thank You card. My biggest obstacle there is figuring out the best way to print them, but once I smooth that out, I'm going to be a card designing fiend. I'm going to work on jewelry designing too, I've been messing around with it and it's fun, but I'm going to hit up some flea markets to find things to use as pendants. (I'm not into the huge homemade glass/wire globs that artists usually make into pendants). I want to make little clusters of charms using little things I find and whatnot. Maybe a little metal work. Hopefully that will supplement some of my lack of income over the summer.

We're also planning on having a garage sale again this summer. It went well last time and I have a bunch of crap that I could get rid of. Lots of old college stuff, old art supplies, old purses... stuff that takes up room. I have a lot to do!