Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Year in Review 2019

     I have heard a lot of people say that 2019 was a rough year for them. Actually, I have probably heard thing every year. I was looking through photos (and fighting with my printer while trying to update the finished dolls book) and I was looking at photos from throughout the year. Here are some highlights of my 2019
     In February I participated in NaMoPaiMo and painted Hugh. I am ridiculously proud of him. 
     This was the year I made Link for Jackie Rossi. He debuted at Candyland Live and has had lots of adventures since then. 
     I made a doll in full armor this year. Now no doll idea scares me. I'll figure it out. 
There were other unusual dolls this year as well.
This was the year Crystal and I made more effort to get together
and made sure to take a photo or two each time. 
It makes me happy how many photos of the two of us I have now. These are just a small sample. 
This was the year that Travis got to tour a fire station, thanks to my friend Brenda Bednar. 
I got to watch Travis rock the state championships for Unified track.
And I got to see him rock a graduation gown.
We went to Comic Con in Brooklyn
Where I got to meet Roberto Williams, who I had been working with on a doll project. 
     I did another elaborate group photo of dolls, including a blog post showing how I make these happen. 
I made a ridiculous amount of tiny candy. 
     Thanks to some really excellent friends, I got to sell dolls in new places. Jackie Rossi brought dolls to Breyerfest for me. 
Fabian modeled some dolls at Breyerfest.
Then for The Jennifer Show, Fabian sold dolls for me. I really have some amazing friends!

I had another big sale at TRXC, though this time I did my own selling. 
     And Elecktra and I went to the first, but hopefully not last, model horse swap meet in the area. It was definitely a cool experience. 
     I went to a show on Long Island, which I have meant to do for years but didn't think I could handle the 3 and a half hour drive. I handled it, and that was what gave me to confidence to go to other places that are a bit further than I am used to. 
     I did show at a handful of other shows throughout the year. And I sometimes even remembered to get award photos. 
I tried to make sure to bring my A game to shows. 
         And I did pretty well accomplishing that goal. It was not a perfect year for showing, but it was good. 
      I decided since the longer drives didn't bother me too much that I could take longer road trips to see Friends. So I went to hang out with Maire. 
     And another time I went to hang out with Jackie. I hope next year will also have some roadtrips to visit more friends!
      In 2019 I got not 1...
not 2...
     But 3 photos with Ethan. He hates having his picture taken so this is likely the most I have gotten in one year since our wedding. 
     I got this excellent photo of a group of OG showers at a really cool show in October. 
Larry Nichols, me, Marisa Spence, Ann Giles and Michelle Grieder
I got a new sister-in-law. I am thrilled by this!
I got to be a unicorn with Angelique. We wore these all day at school. 

     I had my first ever live sale on Black Friday on Facebook. It was a bit terrifying going in, but it was fun once I got started.

It was also very thirsty work. 

    Originally when I thought about doing this post the plan was to give a rundown of what dolls I made this year with some doll photos. So let's get into that. I made:

2 side saddle dolls
3 cross country dolls
4 dressage dolls
4 showmanship dolls
5 saddleseat dolls
6 driving dolls
8 youth dolls
9 casual English dolls
11 casual western dolls
12 cowboys
13 hunt seat dolls
18 "other" dolls
26 western pleasure dolls
for a total of 121 dolls in 2019

I figured it would be interesteresting (at least to me) to see a monthly breakdown. So here we go:
January 8
February 10
March 8
April 9
May 5
June 18
July 13
August 14
September 9
October 17
November 2
December 6
     You can really tell when I was getting ready for big sales! I have had an interesting year and it was actually full of some new things for me and definitely a lot of fun. Not everything was perfect but I had a really good year. I hope that 2020 will be another amazing year. Happy New Year!












1 comment:

ShamrockFarmsInc. said...

Great Recap! 2020 is gonna be GREAT!