here, got my team posts confused, gonna copy/paste my own post from that thread:
My brainstorm lists for various holidays, I thought you guys might like to see em.
I usually work five or six tattoo conventions a year and I have always made my holidays months ahead- sometimes half a year ahead- to give me time to make prints, frame stuff, price things. Like- I work a tattoo convention in Vancouver WA every year, in early february. it usually falls on v-day weekend. I make valentine art in november- make prints, and draw tattoo ideas for that show. that way when the show comes all I have to do is pack the right boxes in the car and go.
Right now I am - just to show you how far out I plan- working on father's day stuff.
I was reading my brainstorming list and figured I'd share this one. I can post other holidays I've done like this for you guys too if you want, and if you want to jump in and add ideas HELL yeah.
I open a blank notepad document and keep it open on my desktop all the time.
when I think of, or see something cool that might fit a holiday, I type or copy paste it in. by the time I've been messing around online I have a list of ideas for art as well as other stuff. Lots of times if I was a sewing or crochet or crafting person I'd get good ideas from it for that- I could see how other people could make stuff- but all I really do is the visual arts so I can't always use these lists fully.
I've recently started also adding "tag ideas" as a second paragraph in these notes to myself.
