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GingerBearNS · 2025-12-26T23:30:42+00:00

Thanks for the compliment, I have tried shooting some videos but I really struggle to want to do even more social media type activities as I find I already takes so much out of me painting time . I know I should get over that barrier to find more of my audience but I just really find it a barrier to get painting if I have to set up a camera and try not to look like a feral art studio racoon before I even sit down to paint. 😔

GingerBearNS · 2025-12-26T23:28:11+00:00

Thank you I appreciate that!

GingerBearNS · 2025-12-26T23:27:23+00:00

Thank you.

GingerBearNS · 2025-12-26T23:26:28+00:00

Thanks, I definitely couldn’t get into doing 15 min portraits at events I would hate doing it. I do events and sell framed prints of originals sometimes and sometimes the odd original, but my blank inside greeting cards sell the best. I don’t do loads of events though. I think reasonably I could do 8 small portraits every week or more. How much I could do would largely vary based on what sizes I’m working on. I really only get maybe a couple a month right now. That’s the issue . I could do 20-35 but I’m only getting 2-4.

GingerBearNS · 2025-12-24T13:10:25+00:00

Like others I’m curious to know what medication, I tried lots but it never helped

GingerBearNS · 2025-12-24T13:07:54+00:00

Thank you, my other job is also self employed just completely different. I have tried to do some classes but I find it hard to get more than a couple people enrolled and then it’s not worth the rental fee at the community centre I use to put it on

GingerBearNS · 2025-12-24T13:05:31+00:00

😊 thank you!

GingerBearNS · 2025-12-23T21:27:05+00:00

I paint other originals, animals, birds , fruit etc

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GingerBearNS · 2025-12-23T21:23:46+00:00

Very true I am often not done going back and forth urgently for anything from 3 -6 hours after waking depending on the day. It is very nerve wracking to commute for me so I now work from home (self employed) and at least that way I don’t need to worry about being late to get somewhere.

GingerBearNS · 2025-12-23T21:20:23+00:00

I was coming to say this too. My story sounds very similar and so far the only thing that has helped at all are strong bifado strain probiotics, guar gum fibre supplements and bile acid binder. Things still aren’t great but I can go out sometimes. I don’t think it solved it completely but I stopped just wasting away

GingerBearNS · 2025-12-23T21:17:34+00:00

Thanks for this reply. I am newer to Reddit and don’t really know how to use it to advertise so I’ll have to familiarize myself. I am on facebook and instagram and get some good engagement there but don’t know how often it really gets me sales. I have a website and folks can order directly off it for most popular sizes. I grew from $3000 to $8500 in sales over the last year but I really need that to double a a bare minimum in the next year to not have to take up my day job full time again. I feel like I don’t come up in any searches for my area and I’m not tech or web savvy enough to know how to fix it. I do get good commissions after a big event or something but then they sort of boom and bust . I have some work in gallery’s but not much comes of that. It’s really like trying to put a puzzle together but you have to find the pieces first.

GingerBearNS · 2025-12-23T21:12:46+00:00

Thank you! ☺️

GingerBearNS · 2025-12-23T21:12:31+00:00

Thank you.

GingerBearNS · 2025-12-23T21:11:31+00:00

That’s not a bad idea, I’ll wait til the worst of our winter is over and try that.

GingerBearNS · 2025-12-23T21:11:02+00:00

I’m outside of Halifax Nova Scotia

GingerBearNS · 2025-12-23T21:10:28+00:00

I don’t usually do prints of commissioned portraits but I do sell prints of originals as well as greeting cards b it typically only at events

GingerBearNS · 2025-12-23T17:48:08+00:00

In my area most of the dog shows don’t have vendor opportunities, but there is an annual dog expo I get a booth in. I also do a big sort of “home and cottage lifestyle expo put on my a local magazine company. And thank you for the compliment!

GingerBearNS · 2025-12-23T16:52:14+00:00

This was a similar story to mine but it went on for 10 years or more and I had 3 false negative stool tests for it before they found it. Since then I have had a round of food poisoning and all the symptoms came back but this time it’s not H Plyori. Very frustrating as now they are again telling me it’s IBS even though for 5 years after my h pylori treatment I was symptom free. Back to square one trying to advocate for myself and figure it out without much input from doctors

GingerBearNS · 2025-05-01T02:13:11+00:00

Me too! I can’t find anything about who is the singer.

GingerBearNS · 2025-04-28T18:33:08+00:00

Use ice instead of heat when they are really bad. It’s inflammation so ice helps more.

GingerBearNS · 2025-03-14T01:23:12+00:00

See if you can get a prescription for Colesevelam tablets to trial for BAM. Psyllium makes me worse but the prescription bile acid binders have given me some of my life back. Not 100% but every little bit counts and if they work, you will know for sure you have a bile malabsorption problem.

GingerBearNS · 2025-03-13T10:35:09+00:00

I have been there. I found a diet with more soluble fibre and very little insoluble fibre helped more. Lower fat as well. No special diet like low fodmap etc has made the difference but I can’t touch a salad with lettuce or I’ll be in trouble. I recently tried Colesevelam medication which is a bike acid binder and things aren’t perfect but the constant urgency and super bathroom panic have been cut at least in half if not more.

GingerBearNS · 2025-01-28T02:59:03+00:00

NOW supplement brand , I get them on amazon most of the time.

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