Bullet Art on NRA Rifle Targets: The Destiny of Things, Story 525

Bullet Art on NRA Rifle Targets: The Destiny of Things, Story 525

An artist sent a photo update!  This looks fun!  I want to try this!  BEFORE:

CHOOSE Official NRA Ranger or Winchester bulls eye Gun Rifle Shooting small vintage paper Typography Targets Halloween Westworld man cave wall decor birthday gift for him, available here

photo via VintageToGoEasy

Here is the note I received with a photo update:

Hi! I'm using the rifle targets I'm collecting for a series of
artworks called "American Daisies". I'm sending you an
image of one called "All American Daisy". They use bullets, targets and rhinestones, and have to do with the culture of guns in our history and in our current time.

So cool, I love how the art ties into our gun culture and history to now.  It's called "American Daisies"?  Interesting, I wonder if it has to do with the saying, "pushing up daisies?" lol.

AFTER:

photo via Anonymous Etsy buyer artist

Here is what I wrote back:

Hi!

Thank you for your inspiration, story and photo! I really love what you are doing, especially would like to hear more on how you are linking it to our history and current time.

Please let me know where you are showing your art and I will link it to my blog posting, with your permission.

Thanks again for all your inspiration,
Kennedy

PS. Sorry for the delay in response, the heat wave over knocked me out! Today it's finally cooler! 

Unfortunately, I wrote her back a month later due to a bad head cold procrastinating and then a heat wave that left me with insomnia!  Boo hoo on me for missing that window!  Because I would have loved to see the ones she made with the targets from our shop!

 This is about as far as I got using the targets with mixed media assemblage art!

CHOOSE Official NRA Ranger or Winchester bulls eye Gun Rifle Shooting small vintage paper Typography Targets Halloween Westworld man cave wall decor birthday gift for him, available here.  The mini guns, some are rifles are available at our other shop, here.

photo via VintageToGoEasy

Saying Goodbye:  For some reason, I inherited some guns and used to love guns and the shooting range.  I guess it's from my childhood growing up on a farm and shooting away birds with our Daisy pellet rifle.  I've since let them go because I didn't think they were attributing to my well being.   

Of course, as a hoarder, I saved all of the bullet casing and used targets, but I don't know if they are still in my hoard.  If they are, I'd like to try making some art too using them and the targets.

Some of the targets are double sided and one is not. 

CHOOSE Official NRA Ranger or Winchester bulls eye Gun Rifle Shooting small vintage paper Typography Targets Halloween Westworld man cave wall decor birthday gift for him, available here

photo via VintageToGoEasy

What I Learned:

1.  I got these smaller targets for my own art because most targets have a more solid background and these aren't.  I got as far as xeroxing them and that's it.  I was going to hand stamp stuff on them for Halloween.  I still have the idea in my head, but haven't done anything further.  I wonder why that is?

2.  I'm so thankful someone else is using them for art!  And maybe through her inspiration, I'll get more motivated!  Have you watched, "Exit through the Gift Shop"?  It's a documentary in a documentary, about someone who started his own documentary on street art and then went on to hire others to fulfill all his art ideas.  I think I need to hire others to create using my art ideas, lol until they aren't so hoarded up in my mind!

3.  So my art has been selling on Etsy and seems to be showing on a regular basis at our local coffee shop gallery, so I am excited about creating more art, but de hoarding does take up most of my free time.  So I need figure out my priorities and let some of them go and put myself on a schedule.

What kind of schedule or plan has worked for you?  I used to long term plan for 10, 5 and 1 year. Then break that down to a monthly plan, then weekly, then daily and hourly.  When I was really ill, it was just one thing a day, which sounds not very productive, but by the end of the month, I would get 30 things done.

The targets look nice framed, if you need a man cave or cowgirl cave gift. 

CHOOSE Official NRA Ranger or Winchester bulls eye Gun Rifle Shooting small vintage paper Typography Targets Halloween Westworld man cave wall decor birthday gift for him, available here

photo via VintageToGoEasy

Thank you Etsy buyer from VintageToGoEasy for sharing your story with a photo update!  I love it!  I'm thrilled, inspired and motivated to build on your idea and do my own thing with paper targets too!  Thank you for your time and creativeness!

I thought I could let go of my purge pile, but I've ended up listing more and purging less.  I think I'll have to drop off my purge pile when the thrift shop has closed because I started to make a mental list of stuff I wanted to find if I went thrifting!

Everyday is such an adventure dehoarding on Etsy!   I never know who I'll meet and I have met so many Etsy buyers who share their stories with me and every time I glean some insight about where my dehoarding journey is taking me.

Thank you Etsy for the best Hoarder Rehab ever!  And for all the kind people I'm meeting who are helping me indirectly and directly in so many ways with my Hoarder Rehab!

Here is the front and back of the double sided targets.

CHOOSE Official NRA Ranger or Winchester bulls eye Gun Rifle Shooting small vintage paper Typography Targets Halloween Westworld man cave wall decor birthday gift for him, available here

photo via VintageToGoEasy

My new goal is to list 180 items per shop or 50 new items per month.   It has not been an easy thing for me to do and I hope I can keep up the pace of new listing 12-13 items per week!

Sales are mostly up due to the Labor Day sale.  We'll see what happens this 3 day weekend.  Our sale will end a week after Labor Day weekend, so either our sale ends either on September 9 or 10th. Some high end jewelry sold due to the sale, so I am very thankful!  but lately it's been little items selling.

I'm leaving the fee changes here because next blog post I want to figure out how much the increase is per dollar.  If someone already has it figured out and would share it, thank you!

 

I figured out the fee increase per dollar.  60 cents goes to fees for the first dollar and about 13 cents for every dollar after that, including shipping costs.  We used to put all of the fees in shipping, so our shipping fees where higher than most, but it didn't make sense to me to put all the Etsy fees into the price of the item, since they just took a percentage of those fees, but I guess now it doesn't matter where the fees go, since a percentage from both, the listing fee and the shipping costs, now go to Etsy.

YEAH!!! finally got the fee changes out of my system!

Transaction fee was 3.5%, but it's going up to 5% on July 16, 2018.

New shipping fee, all shipping fees get charged 5% on July 16, 2018.

Processing fee is staying the same, I think, which is 3% plus .25 cents per transaction

Listing fee is still the same of .20 cents for 4 months, or .05 cents per month.

We have joined the Etsy Labor Day Sale now, and it will end around September 9 or 10, 2018.

 

 Maybe someone out there would like to upcycle these or turn them into art.  They need the pin backs.  Gun and Service medal ribbon awards, available here

photo via VintageToGoEasy 

 

Also, Etsy has added some new features and I wanted to talk about "notifications," but have run out of time again, so hopefully I'll remember to write about it next time.

Click on the shop names to visit new hoard listed daily and/or weekly: HoarderRehab with 178 items, The Destiny of Things- 177 items, VintageToGoEasy - 178 items and JunkDrawerAndMore - 176 items. 

Maybe you'll find something and give it new life and a new home!  Thanks for looking!

 

 Mini gold assault weapons with at least one being a rifle, some as seen in the photo with the targets, available at our other shop, here.  Photo via JunkDrawerAndMore

I hope you are as inspired as I am to create some art now!  I am going to do some textile art, loteria art, and or washi tape paper quilt art!  Thank you for visiting my Hoarder Rehab and The Destiny of Things!  

 

 I have this dart board up with the rest of my art!  My art assemblage wall of art on art!  I guess I do love all kinds of  "targets."  Another insight into my hoarding ways!  

Have a great 3 day weekend, not laboring this Labor Day holiday!