Momentum is my favorite word!

Day; 252. Sunny but bitterly cold with frosty wind blowing through.....

Temperature on outside kiln; 34 degrees
kiln firings; none
music in the studio; Shawn Colvin

Happiest moment of my day; seeing my friend Karen at her tea-shop Artful Tea in downtown Santa Fe

Two very great days after months of struggling and squirming around.. I finally feel like I have some momentum going in the right direction, that is in a positive flow instead of circling the drain..... Just in the nick of time if you ask me...

 Yesterday I FINALLY got my digital tutorial on laser-toner decals up on my website. Well that only took me about a year, but better late than never. After solving software, uploading, and other various technical problems, I got it up and listed on magpiepottery.com. ,

I was feeling so satisfied with myself that I decided to take a nice warm bath before going to the first Eldorado Studio Tour meeting  later that night. As I was getting out of the bath, I hear an email beep on my phone and decided to check it quickly before leaving.  Lo and behold some angel in California had seen the post I put up on Instagram and purchased a copy of the tutorial.  I was dumbfounded that the passive income stream from this idea only took about an hour to pay off.... I didn't know whether to laugh or cry so I promptly did both at the same time... while also jumping around in the air. All 4 dogs thought I was crazy and did one of those really cute doggy head tilts.. you could just see them thinking, "what's up with the human now?!"

I just really needed some forward propulsion/momentum  in my life and this was it. Any little thing would do.. Just something to get me going and feeling positive so that I could take another step, and then another, and another. For two months I just couldn't find anything positive beyond, "gee, my bed is soft!", which yes, is positive, but does not have a  lot of forward momentum riding on it. I subsequently went to bed last night feeling pretty good for the first time in a long while.
 As I was getting ready to leave for town this morning, the same thing happened... My phone beeped, I checked it for emails, and lo and behold someone else had also purchased a tutorial... !! I love having money sent to my Paypal account while I am brushing my teeth!! No firing the kiln, no loading the truck, no driving 300 miles to a show, just put on your underwear and people send you money while you are getting dressed! I LOVE TECHNOLOGY! I am sure I have never written that sentence in my life but I am suddenly enamored.

To add chocolate sauce to the ice cream, the technical problem which was preventing me from listing the same tutorial on Etsy.com, was solved while I had a casual conversation with Karen at Artful Tea. I feel bad though, she was telling me all about her technical difficulties with a new website, and we ended up solving mine instead! Serendipity is alive and well and living in Santa Fe... Thanks Karen! (hope you get your technical difficulties figured out soon..)