Tell your rich friends!

BUY BUY BUY!
Haha, jus' kidding!
I have put my miniature paintings up on ETSY, and am about to start listing all sorts of things for sale there (for instance my rad earrings, above). It's like an online handmade crafts bazaar, and therefore I feel right at home:
Lovelorn Design by Kai Smart
I have this strange thing inside me which is a distastful feeling of vanity or presumption whenever I endevour to sell my art. There is some little voice in the back of my brain saying, "Oh, WHY would anyone want something of MINE?" and also saying..."Hey, I WOULD just give this stuff away, especially to my friends....!"
I'm working on banishing it. The thing I have to realize is that people shop BECAUSE they LIKE it (I got this all caps thing from Summer, and goddamn it is satisfying!). Just because shopping is a loathsome and frusterating act for me doesn't mean it is for everyone else. Quite the contrary, GodblessAmerica.
Also, because I see the ability to MAKE STUFF to be totally normal and no problem at all (heck! It's a lot of fun!) I downplay the stuff's worth. Like, I would make this stuff anyway. This is also something I have to fight against. The most successful artists I know (even artists that I don't consider to be very good) are the ones that have absolute confidence in their self-worth. The non-artistic masses respect that confidence. They view artistic talent as a gift, that they don't mind paying for, since they do not possess it themselves (or they haven't figured out that they DO have it!).
Anyhow, I'm sure this is quite fascinating (SEE?! There's my inate self-depricating behavior!)....O.K. umm.....updates:
This weekend I am seeing The Court & Spark, The Fall, and hopefully going up to Rock It, to see my brother because I MISS HIM so much and I want to dance. Tomorrow Pete Bernhard is playing at the Makeout Room, and Wednesday Michelle and I have a date to dress up in killer outfits and go vamp it up at the unfortunately-named Dark Sparkle at Cafe Du Nord. Lastly, Jessica Cooke (my tattoo Master) and her boyfriend Chris are having a show HERE in San Francisco at a gallery in Hayes Valley (580 Hayes). San Franciscans should go see it, the art of hers that I have seen was very cool, delicate paintings on wood of geisha with planar, almost robotic features. Wow!