I'm generally pretty good about supporting my friends when I know they are doing fundraisers

I've bought all kinds of things, most of which I didn't need, because it mattered more to me to give my friends ten dollars or soemthing

but I have one friend who every time I see her selling commissions because she needs the money, I get annoyed

see, she's a henna artists and trying to start a business as a face painting stall

at a convention I spent 30 dollars for an amazing face mask painted on and got her loads of customers who admired it

and for a special event I had her do me up as well and paid her about 20 dollars for it even though it wasn't what I wanted at all

and for my wedding, I had my parents hire her

we were going to pay her about 4 hundred dollars

for her to do fancy magical make up and have a stall set up

and a couple days before the wedding, she called in sick and canceled

because she wanted to go to the monthly distopia rising zombie game instead

I've forgiven all the other guests who chose zombie larping over my wedding and last chance to see them before I left oregon

but every time I see her post on facebook about commissions and needing money...

I realize I haven't forgiven her yet

I am not happy with myself over it

but I was one of her biggest fans

and I tried really hard to help her get her business up

and she chose zombies over an event that was garanteed to make her more than her usual gigs

I'm tempted to buy something from her

but I can't bring myself to

:\\\ Yeah.

That's just a dumb business decision...

it makes me feel like she's not serious about it

Yeah, she's not.

Sorry.

Paid Gig >>>>> Once a month LARP

I know she needs money, she's chronically broke

Paid Gig guarenteed to give her more business.

exactly, a game she had to pay to go to

There's a reason she's chronically broken I think

If she's really good, she'd have no problem getting money.

some of her stuff is just amazing

It's too bad her work ethic doesn't match.

and we were going to pay her extra for glitter tattooes

I'd be so super stoked if I had been her and invited to an event like that.

I mean, that's more people make in an entire month sometimes!

*more than people make

I mean, she was on the guest list anyway, so I felt bad about asking her to work it, but it was money she said she needed

we let her name the price and everything

for about an hour and a half of work, that's good money

she said she was sick

but I saw all the facebook pictures of her as a zombie that weekend

it's been six months and it still bothers me

she posts on facebook every couple of days about money issues or about jobs that didn't net back the cost of the table there

and I just can't feel moved

That's amazing money for that little of work.

Yeah, I can't blame you.

I would feel the exact same way.

I've been resisting the urge to post a negatice reveiw on her website ause I don't want to be a jerk

her work really is amazing though

and she was going to use the really fancy stuff

Sigh

yeah

Sometimes people just aren't good at being in business for themselves.