Not being easily discouraged I returned home, pulled out illustration board and started painting borders. At the time I was working sixty hours a week at a “real job” and teaching two night a week. My energy soared. After dinner ever evening I was in my studio painting samples. Do you have this happen when new ideas are flooding your head?
Coming up with designs was invigorating. There had to be a way to turn this into a business. One I could actually make money at. Off I went to a local frame shop to have beveled edged strips of matting cut to frame my designs. They needed to look professional. Guess I was coloring outside of the box long before I began using the term. The only way I new to market myself with no budget was to make cold calls on design firms, but something was missing.
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