When you’re first starting off as an artist, no matter what your medium is, you’ll often hear people tell you not to be afraid to suck. They’ll tell you that everyone sucks while they’re first starting out, and that your first several thousand hours don’t matter because everything you do will suck. They’ll tell you that it will be that way until you make it big — that everything will suck no matter what you do, that you need to expect for it to suck, and you need to expect for it to suck...

Whenever I purchase a purse, if its strap detaches, I store it separately. Each purse is an outfit accessory, and should be treated as a part of the outfit. I keep a drawer of everyday items that go in my purse, to make it easy to swap them on the daily. What’s nice about purse straps that detach is that now they’re usable for any other in your collection. Sometimes, they might be usable for other things, or as other things. Sometimes, they might be usable as jewelry, especially as necklaces....

I was cleaning dried paint off their bottles. As someone who loves to paint, I clean the caps off often, making sure they can snap shut in order to keep the artist medium safe. A part of being an artist is learning how to protect whatever medium you’re using. It’s why, a lot of the time, the things we usually throw out are things we learn to turn into mediums themselves. When peeling the dried crap off the bottles, I noticed how strong and sturdy it was. It was as sturdy as soft plastic, and...