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pipi_k

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6. Yep, exactly...

Tue Nov 12, 2013, 12:38 PM

Nov 2013

If I were to do what I do for money, it would seem like a job. Because, basically, it would be.

That means it wouldn't be for fun anymore.

Many non-crafters just don't understand how it could be more pleasurable for me to make stuff and give it away than to sell it.

PS...although when I was doing beadwork years ago I did have a friend who wanted to pay me for a pair of earrings for her daughter. I accepted the money, then felt awful. Like somehow what I made wasn't good enough to sell.

At least giving it away I'm not going to feel guilty about "cheating" someone.

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