Panic Free Pricing!

Well, as my last blog post stated, I started New Mercies Design a little over a year ago, with the hopes to perhaps make a little money on the side of homeschooling. Admittedly, I haven’t done a LOT, but it’s because I haven’t put a LOT of time into it since there are so many other things to do, and I have to prioritize. :) And that's ok... because I enjoy lettering, and as much as possible, I'd like to keep it that way. So I've got an Etsy shop and an Instagram account and word of mouth, which has gotten my most of my work, even though I'm not super busy with it (and like I said, that's ok for now).

So I want to share something that I just posted on Instagram, with a bunch of info on a new myteachable.com course, and right now I'm here to share it with you because it's fabulous.

Panic Free Pricing! For sale now, with special pricing! Read on...

Like I said, I have gotten to do a few things over the past year or so, and they’ve not only been fun, but they’ve been rewarding. I was often unsure what to charge, though! So when @thehappyevercrafter and @indetailcreative put together the Panic-Free Pricing book earlier this year, I took advantage of it immediately.

Now I’m honored to be an affiliate and want to share it with you because it’s helped me immensely. I'm still no expert, but I've got this course to keep learning how to price my items and I'll be able to do better as I build my business! They’ve just revamped it to make it an online course, so there are even more benefits to be had.

• The pricing charts are easy to reference, and give you a great minimum starting point for quoting your own jobs.
• It includes a 98-page reference guide, over 2 hours of video content, and access to a private FB group for extra help pricing your own jobs!

I lettered this logo for my daughter's Poshmark shop. I matched the colors to one of her favorite color schemes.

I made this for a friend who put the art on a mug and some cards, and she paid $20. (Should I have charged more?)

• It is on sale from now until next Monday, the 4th, for $99 CAD (~$75 USD!), so grab it while it's on sale! After the 4th, the price will be $179 CAD (~$135). 
• Once you’ve paid, it’s yours forever. You can go through it at your own pace, you can skip around, whatever you want! 

I made this for 4th of July, it still hangs in my family room. 

• The link to purchase is below, and here’s a bonus for you: If you purchase using my link, I’ll letter your first name (or a first name of your choice) and send you a digital copy! After your purchase, simply send me an email (with a note saying hello!) and a copy of your receipt and let me know what name you’d like me to letter. I’ll send a digital file to you after a few days. 

I made this for my husband's parents' 50th anniversary.

• I’m super excited to be able to share this information with you! Click here to order this fantastic resource for your business. You'll be so glad you did! 
• If you have any further questions please don’t hesitate to comment below or to send me a message through Instagram or to my email, newmerciesdesign@gmail.com. 

I'm no expert on blog posts, so this is basically just a bunch of info with some photos interspersed here and there. But I am telling you, the course itself is totally worth the investment! 

I lettered this and then cut it out in vinyl with my Cricut to put on the window next to my front door. 

I've added some of my work to this post, just to give you an idea of what I do, but you can look at my Instagram accounts too, and see lots of work there. I have a couple accounts - my 'regular' account is @musicnazi, and my lettering/business account is @newmerciesdesign. I'd love to visit with you there!

If you're interested in pricing your items, click here to order! And if you're interested in any lettering work, you're welcome to visit my Etsy shop, message me on Instagram, or email me at newmerciesdesign@gmail.com (you can also email me with just a click through Instagram; my email is in my bio).

You won't be disappointed. :-)

New Etsy Store (shameless plug - it's my blog, after all.)

Well. It's been something like 3 years or more since I've posted because again, life happened and I've forgotten about this little space.

It's ok, I'm fine with it.

To update anyone who reads this blog, the latest things we are doing around here are still school, music, tv and movie quotes, and nowadays, car repair and maintenance, since I have two teen drivers with cars to care for on a regular basis.

My latest endeavor is hand lettering, and I've even opened an Etsy store to sell my artwork. I fully intend for my girls to do some art as well. Not a bad gig for some pocket (or gas) money, making artwork, taking photos, and posting it to sell. So we'll see what happens there!

I really only hopped on tonight to edit an old post, but just thought I'd include a "hi, I'm still here" post while I was here. So there it is.

Here's a link to our store, and a sample of some of my work... bookmark our shop and check back often to see any new items we post!

Click to view our shop, New Mercies Design

Happy looking, happy shopping.

Fun Art

These pictures have been sitting in the basket in the cupboard above my computer desk for months. I've been meaning to somehow get them into a format in which I could keep them for posterity. Yesterday I finally took pictures of them so that I can post them (as I have with past notes and artwork) so I will hopefully always be able to go back and view them whenever I want. I love that I can post things like this on my blog and be able to access them later (as well as sharing the fun things of my life with whomever wants to see them).

So here are a bunch of pictures Rachel drew - sometime this year, but she doesn't remember exactly when.

Mermades

I found this today and had to share.
I guess this was from Rachel's "Little Mermaid 2" phase.
I love the bubbles of what they're saying: Ariel says "I will find you my darling", and Melody's quotes the song she sings, "for a moment just a moment I'll be free!". If you have seen the movie, you'll recognize the lyrics.
I also particularly like her first couple attempts at writing the name "ariel", down at the bottom of the first half of the page, as well as the details of the mermaid - right down to the belly button and seashell bikini top.

Rest In Peace Slinky

We experienced a death in the family. Our little Slinky. Best we can figure, he must have been sick or something. We took him out to feed him (and of course when I say "we" I mean "ME"), and - well - let's just say he didn't make it. I actually picked up a dead snake. Who would do that voluntarily? It was sad, but on Saturday after going to tell the builders to start our house, we went to our new backyard and had a little burial ceremony.

Emma has handled it pretty well. Of course the death of Slinky only means that Slinky No. Two will not be far behind. She is even looking at the bigger versions of the same species...and wants to get one that's significantly larger and eats live rats instead of dead pinky mice. Well, we'll see about that, but we decided not to get another snake until after we move into our new house in February or so. This will save poor Gramy from having a snake in her house. It actually will work out better, one less thing to move. And more time to look for a replacement snake, I guess. :)

Emma is quite the artist, as many of you know. The following two drawings have been on my refrigerator for the past couple of days and I must post them. The cage picture shows exactly what was in there, from the little log he hid under to the water dish (water included) with the little ramp that went down into it. He used to climb the tree thingy and then slither up onto the temperature and humidity dials. Funny.

Enjoy!

Tired, Hungry, and Bored

On Saturday night we had a meeting to draw up the offer on our house. The girls of course were with us, and brought things to do while we did our thing. They were so patient, but by the time we were done, they were definitely ready to go. I think Rachel brought this note over to me on behalf of both of them. You can see that they specifically told us who was feeling what, and Emma's little drawing of the house is cute. You can see the playset in the back, and even the basketball hoop and a ball. Funny!

Emma's Drawrings

Emma drew these pictures - One yesterday, and two today. Alas, she didn't draw them in the bathtub. Sorry to break it to you, Simon.