No sooner do I swear off commissions, than I finally get a phone call from the person (discussed here) who had all but crossed the tees on one. Now, when I said the other day that I wouldn’t be doing any more, I actually - to myself - had a silent agreement that if any people who had contacted me before about a commission were to contact me again, I would consider it. In fact, it was only because of this one particular person, whose offer of work is not only right up my alley, but would also mean a huge boost in publicity for me, and the work is even something that is my own design. So even though I feel like I’ve been somewhat sucked right back in, this really is the only commission I will be taking on.

But it’s weird to have happened on the day when my last - failed - commission had been returned to me and money refunded; and on a day when I get yet another email about selling an item I don’t sell; and a week after I had come to terms with the fact that after several months of emailing and phone calling, this person wasn’t going to go through with it.

Fingers crossed nothing goes wrong with this one.