I had some concerns from people about me being slow lately, so I thought I would do a journal about what's going on with me.

Yes I can say been pretty slow for a while and IDK really want to say about it. I've been having trouble focusing things, executive dysfunction, and ADD stuffs. I'm trying my best not to stress out about it because I know spiraling want help, so I just need to get to bottom of this or re-find myself. IDK.

Over all I feel like I'm doing fine. I don't feel depressed. Maybe I'm stressed? It's hard to say if it's stress because there is a LOT going on in the world right now. But I find my self to become numb to everything. So blanket stuff: Politics and AI and shit that you probably know about, I don't need to get into all that because you know. XD

Personal stuff going on. I have PCOS, and I was bleeding for 3 months straight, heavy or light. So I made some appointments and last week it just fucken stopped, and I'm back to normal. So I'm not really following though with anything because like, I'm just tired of dealing with this stuff. At least last year the doctor got it to where I'm not in pain all the time. I can say during those three months is about when the focus problems slowly started. But like I don't know if it's the problem or part of the problem.

About a month go my hubby chewed his mom out. She's been a manipulator over him. He really got some things that needed to be said. Noting has really been resolved. This hasn't really effected me besides I don't like being accused of something I'm not. But this is stuff he needs to work out, and I'm here for him whatever decisions he makes. It's like a weird thing because I love her, I feel bad for her, but at the same time, she hurts my hubby. This is the nest she built for herself.

Yeah. Part of me blames having to many projects. Maybe I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed because it's like: Commissions, Shop art, make book, I wanna do a comic!!
I want to do all the things, but I just play Neopets and look at BlueSky till it shows me things I don't want to see. This is the executive dysfunction I talked about.
Part of me is like, I don't want to do commissions anymore. I don't know how to talk about this because I don't want people to feel like they are the problem when they are most likely not the problem. But over all Some people can be a bit annoying, but 90% of you are amazing.
I have been enjoying making some art I want to make with the shop, But I am feeling like I hit a cap. I want to expand on some sets I've made, but some things in the set are not selling. Like people buy Anubis But not Sekhmet or Horrus. Do people JUST want Anubis? XD The Tiny Dinos, people just buy the blue dino lanyards and the stegosaurus phone charm. I do have plans to do BackerKit this year, I want to do Tiny Dino enamel pins. I think they will do well.
I kind of stopped working on the book because the swaying keychains game out with the manufacture and I had to make a batch of those because new products are 50% off. I freaking love them though. I need to update shop stuff here on FA, I'm a bit behind. I was working on the book this week abit. I'll try to get back into that.
The comic is new. [url=https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=trotalong]I did make a comic listing on ComicFury.[/ur] I was SUPPER happy to see how well people liked Nini. This will be a slow project. Working on a better ref of Naomi currently, and I've sketched out about 2 pages now.

So IDK I feel like I'm going to get myself back together from here, just might take some time. I appreciate people being patent with me. I haven't really had this problem before. But shit happens. I'll get though this. Just know, I don't think anything is wrong with me. It's a chaotic time. Maybe this is what the Zodiacs were talking about lol
I will fucken fight these horses to get my motivations back. 🐎🔥🐁

HEY OH!!! My Birthday is March 1st! I'll be having these going on:

🍰 B-Day Stream: Today starting about 1pm EST. Ending around 5pm. Drawing merfolk art. https://www.twitch.tv/KristKC

🍰 THEMED ART COMMISSIONS! 15% off your order, Now though the 9th. For the following themes:
Merfolk 🧜‍♂️, Dragons 🐉, Birbs 🐤, Horses 🐎

🍰 ETSY SHOP SALE 20% off all things. 1st - 7th, no coupon needed. https://kristkc.etsy.com


The reason horses are on this list is that it's the year of the horse. I was reading my horoscopes and they were pretty bad. 🤣 Apparently rats and horses DO NOT get along, so rats have it bad for the year of the horse. I didn't even know this was a thing in horoscopes. 🤣 But I am NOT going to let house get the best of me. Whatever challenges this year brings I'm going to face them head on and stomp them out like a wild horse! I am embracing the horses! Even though my horoscopes told me not to take big risks, fuck that! I wanna do my book. Then I wanna make Enamel Pins work for my shop! Those are the goals. I'm going to do them. Eat it horoscopes.

LOL I even looked at the Pisces horoscopes, and they were looking bad too. 🤣 Like deer lord what is going to happen? 😐💦

At the same time when I was reading these, my dad who is immunocompromised to like he has no immunity was battling COVID. I am happy that he survived. I was pretty worried. My dad is a tough fighter. I was worried that that would be the thing the horoscopes were talking about. But he is doing fine.

Over all, I don't really believe in horoscopes. I was reading them for fun. I didn't expect them to be so dooming though. 🤣 But I'm using it for motivation fuel. 🐎

Anyway, I don't have any big plans for my B-day. It's cold and blah out, not much of the fun stuff is open around here. Kinna just go get Ramen and hang out for the day.

What's yo fav fish or sea creatures! Tell me in the comments!!! 😄

I'm wondering some things for enamel pins. They are a bit costly to make so to make something that I'm not sure will sell or not is a bit scary.

Loooking for a bit of feedback on the up coming artbook. And in general want to know what kind of things people are interested in.

It's not a long form: https://forms.gle/d1uodwVbLPc5mYEC7

Over all I think the shop is doing well. I've made about half back on what I spent. From what I researched, some shops hardly make sales the first year. I was nervous to spend so much but I think I'm on a good roll. This coming year I plan to extend on some of the popular things and come out with new things to. I was starting to think about a yokai set.

I might poke around some fandoms but feel pretty stong for Genshin and Kingdom Hearts. I want to do a mix of original and fan art.

On Bluesky I mentioned this, last few weeks I got an infected tooth. I was in a lot of pain and meds. Then we had sone house issues come up. Sink blocked, pipe crack, now something going on with the sup pump. So I got a bit behing on the book art, end of the year review form. I think I'm just now realizing I was going to do a free give away on stream. But like I was in too much pain form the infection. I'm doing ok. My jaw is just a bit sore.
It was kind of a meh Christmas this year. But still had a good time. Anyway, I hope your all doing well. Happy Holidays and New Years!

CYBER MONDAY SALE!! From Dec 1 to Dec 2

10% off all commissions
15% off merfolk related commissions

ETSY CYBER WEEK ends Dec 2! > https://kristkc.etsy.com

25% off on all items!

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For my site: https://kristkc.com

Thanks to Chris, he found I should repair my database sometimes. I've NEVER done this! XD
The site runs a bit better now? But not as fast as it should be. But better. I know some people have complained about my site's slowness.


That is all, I hope you're all doing well!

I was playing with my button maker. I COULD sell custom hand made buttons on Etsy. You can see some here!

Custom as in:
- any art in my shop
- any commission art from me
- offer new headshots for buttons (you would get the .png with it)
- optional holographic glitters (stars, hearts, sheen, glitter)

Would any of you be interested in this? Any thoughts?

I wanted to know before I spent money on new supplies. lol

Lucky me, the issue resolved it's self last night. XD

What happened is: My site has some auto updates that run. It got stuck in maintenance mode. I don't know how long, but it was over 5 hours at least. Normally these updates take a few seconds to a minute.

I made sure my themes and plug-ins are up-to-date. This should help keep it from happening? IDK I'm not a supper tech-savvy person. I do the best I can. XD

My site's issue had NOTHING to do with FA's Maintenance. We don't share the same server space and probably not the same hosting. It was just coincidence that the two happened on the same day.

My website is down right now. It's way to late for me to look into it. I'll have to try and figure out what's going to tomorrow or something.

I've not seen this happen before so I hope I can figure it out. >>;

I was thinking of an old webcomic I use to love and found it on Comic Fury. So I joined to catch up on the comic and read their new comics. (See their comics, Human BL warning lol)

It was REALLY easy to add Neon Glow to the site, so if anyone want to follow that series there, go for it! https://comicfury.com/profile.php?username=KristKC

Kind of makes me want to make some new comics, but I'm pretty busy RN. we'll see where things go. lol

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DINOSAUR?!?! Leave a comment!! 😆

If you're one of my commissioners and want the art you ordered from me in the art book, fill this out: https://forms.gle/GHqmEydQJDueMtPf8

I'll be making a better announcement on it later when I can make a better mock up of the book.

I have a sketch of the cover on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/kristkc.bs...../3m232xxows22d

Birbs?

Do you have pet birb?

Thought I would give an update on my surgery.

As a quick review for anyone new on this, I've been getting scalp cysts off my head. I recently got #4 off.

The stiches removed and the woond opened like the last one. So I have hole to heal. I've been sleeping sitting up on the couch for 2 weeks and not getting good sleep because of this. It's been mildly stinging. Sorry for being slow on commissions, this is why. I should have put a not on my Trillo but forgot. My focus has been crazy these few weeks.

I have one more cyst I was going to remove on the back of my neck/head. I keep going back and forth if I should do it. I mean, it needs to be done. I need to get these off sooner so they are not as bad to heal.
But like IDK if like I'm kind of getting tired of all this healing. I feel fat and lazy because I can't exercise. (They told me not to let the blood rush to my head)
I'm sure if I go though with the 5th one. I'll deal with it. Everyone around me better accept my complaining. It makes me feel better lol

It's also defeating that I have 4 more cysts beyond the 5th one. One should come off soon, another is getting there. The others are pretty small and new.

Anyway, just wanted to update everyone.

I'll probably be making my order Monday or Tuesday so you'll need to contact me before then so I have time to prep the file. See this journal for details: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/11216606/

I'm thinking February/March might be a potential next time I might order more. Hoping the art book pre-order will be in Feb.
So if you missed out, there will HOPEFULLY be more opportunities.

I'm putting together an order for my shop. I can do one offs on acrylic keychains, standees, and pins. If you've ordered art from me, I could use that to turn it into one of these things. I can do stickers, but it would be a batch of 10 stickers. I can give you a quote on the cost. It will be different from my shop. I'll ask you to pay for shipping, so keep that in mind. If by chance the product gets misprinted, I'll give a refund (minus tweaks). We can try again on another batch. If I need to tweak the art to make it work for the product, there might be a bit of cost for my work. Work needs to be SFW.

I have to have the raw file, I have art back to 2016. Keep in mind, some art might be messed up over time.

- Items:
Acrylic Keychains
Acrylic Standiees
Acrylic Pin
Stickers (batch of 10)

- Options: (these can make it cost more)
Holographic acrylic
Holographic glitter effects over the art
Glow In The Dark
Colored Acrylic
Different shaped keyrings and colors.

- Piggyback off what I'm ordering for maybe a cheaper cost:
Clear Acrylic keychains
Normal white stickers
Glow in the Dark Keychains
Glow in the Dark Stickers (glow paper has a blue tent to it and is holographic)
Single Charm Staddee

- Things to keep in mind:
Badges would probably make good keychains. I might need to do something, so the text is flipped, so keep that in mind.
I can separate the character from the background.
We can do the standees with the backgrounds behind them. But I might need to tweak the background because I didn't color properly behind the character. lol

Unfortunately, I don't have time to make all new art for these things. If you want new art, you'll have to wait for my next order. You can order it now and let me know what it's for. RN I have no plans for my next order, I kind of need to recoup some funds. If things go well, I might do one around spring.


- How to order:
Note me this info:
~ My gallery URL of the art you want:
~ What do you want it on:
~ Any extra details?

I'll give you a quote and if we agree I'll add you to my next batch.

I wanted to give this a try, I know some of you like your art on physical things. Feel free to ask questions!

After my fall shop batch, I would be interested in doing an art book to showcase my art of the year. I have some questions for you: https://forms.gle/GQnboSwmaSSKzE9k9

Thanks! 💙

Tomorrow I'm getting another cyst off my head. This is just a small surgery, but I'll be in pain, working slow for the next two weeks.

This will be my 4th one for the year. I have one more later. XD

OK! I CAN SHIP TO THE EU NOW!! (I hope 🥲)

⭐ https://kristkc.etsy.com

If anyone ever has problems getting an item, let me know, lol

There are a few stickers that are US only, these are old stickers I had made about 7 years ago and can't provide information on. The art is on RedBubble if you feel you're missing out: https://www.redbubble.com/people/Al.....aKC/shop?asc=u

Shop is here: https://kristkc.etsy.com

I'm changing some things up. Free shipping in the US is eating up cost, so I'm disabling it, but I lowered the cost of things a bit.

I have some keychains that came in misaligned. I'm going to sell those this week at a discounted rate. I only have 5 of them, though. lol
They are still supper cute!

I've been working hard on figuring out the information I need for shipping to the EU. I think I've made a breakthrough, but I need to gather some more info from my manufactures. I know I have EU friends that want to buy things. Hopefully, shipping will be here soon!

Over all, I'm not making the sales I was hoping for. I know it's probably not the best time to be doing this with everything that's going on in the world, rn. But I am giving it a hard try because I'm having a LOT of fun making things. I keep hearing positive feedback on what I'm making.

I'm slowly dripping out the things, here is the current Schedule:

week 1 (next week)
- HummingBorb (Sticker)
Lycaon (sticker/Keychain)

Week 3
- Killer Opossum (Sticker)
- Lucario lil' friend (sticker Keychain)

Week 5
- Anubis (sticker/Keychain)
- Sekhmet (sticker/Keychain)
- Horis (sticker/Keychain)

Week 7
- Narikol (sticker/Keychain)
Thrasher (Sticker)

After the Week 5, I plan to run a banner ad on FA.

I'm currently working on a new batch of stuffs you can see some of the ideas here:
https://bsky.app/profile/kristkc.bs...../3lwrypzjpfk2o
See 2ed and 3 posts as well.

Let me know what you're interested in or what you would like to see!
Keep in mind, Fan Art type things are risky for me. Kind of sticking with HoyoVerse things because they've stated I'm allowed to do this. Maybe if things sell out faster for me I would branch out into other properties. But for now, I'm more looking for cryptids, animals, myths/legends, and dinosaurs. Or if you know a brand that's said it's OK let me know. (have proof!)

Next year, I'm considering getting a table at https://www.dokidokon.org Just waiting for info to drop.
It's a smol con in Kalamazoo MI. They have anime, gamer, and furry fans there. I like the mix of peeps for what I'm selling. I'm hoping to get into more Anime, Furry, Oddity cons eventually.

I need to expand my horizons, so I'm trying out Tumblr again: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/kristkc

If you want to see where else I am: https://linktr.ee/kristkc

That is all for now, lol
I hope you're having a good day!

My new merch just came in! See it first hand! Join me on:
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/KristKC

Things have been crazier thank I thoght lol.

So Chris is taking vacation this week. So I dont have my normal time to work, if any time to work. We are driving out of town for two days this week.

I was working on a Etsy shop update, that turned into a bigger order than I expected. I realized the supplier is having an anniversary sale so I'm trying to get together a big batch of stuff together. I have to get it done by latest, monday. So I've been a bit antsy because I also have commissions waiting. I'm pushing ArtFight to the side with all this going on.

I should be back to normal next week! Along with Art Fight! I have been getting sooooo many attacks this year and they've been amazing. I'll be working hard to catch up when things get back to normal. 😈 hehehe


Anyway, hope you're all doing well! 💙

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