Archive for the 'Crafts' Category
June 18th, 2009 -- Posted in Crafts, Work |
As the school year comes to an end (tomorrow), I have been making plans trying to figure out what to do with the children this summer. I have been also trying to figure out how I am going to work around them being home. Well, I have decided to try to revive my home crafting business. The first thing I have decided to do is to purchase some Business Stationery and Business Invitations to announce to the world that I am again open for business. I am hoping that by purchasing these Business Announcements
and business stationery that I will be able to get my name back out there as having some home made crafts for sale. So, if you find a business announcement in your mailbox, don’t be alarmed. It’s just me trying to drum up business.
April 17th, 2009 -- Posted in Blogging, Crafts, Life |
As you can tell, I have been posting a lot more on this blog this week. That’s because life has finally started to settle down for me a bit now and I have more time to spend on my blogs. In about a month’s time I will be unemployed once again so I will definitely have more time to do a phenphedrine review or product reviews which I haven’t had time to do lately. I will also have more time for crafting and spending time with the children. So although I will be out of a job, there will be a lot of perks for me that will allow me to spend more time doing the things that I really enjoy.
October 27th, 2008 -- Posted in Crafts |
Well I have to tell you all that I don’t think I’ve been as excited about a new store coming to town as I am right now. Last night when I was leaving work I walked by a vacant store and was very pleased to see that a new bead store is going in there. Me being the beading addict that I am, I had to stop and look into the window. They have done quite a bit of work in there already and by the looks of things it should be opening up soon for business. They have painted the entire store, added used cisco equipment and have put in a lot of shelving units. The store is supposed to open on November 7 and you can just bet that I will be one of the first customers there standing in line.
October 23rd, 2008 -- Posted in Crafts |
The other day another craft friend of mine was showing me all the promotional items that she had just received in the mail. She bought these items to give away at different craft fairs and flea markets during the Christmas craft fair season. I want some!! She has a fairly big crafting business and has decided by handing out this items, she can create more buzz for her business. More buzz means more money. I know I should really get off my butt and start promoting my business a little bit more and after seeing all the promotional items she purchased I now know what I need to do. But knowing this and doing something about it is really two different things now isn’t it? Hopefully by the next Christmas season I will have a bunch of promotional items that I can give away as well.
October 23rd, 2008 -- Posted in Crafts, Friends |
Last night I sat down to start working on a cross stitch pattern that needs to be done for a friend of mine by Christmas. First of all I’ve been trying to work on this thing for about a month now, but every time I go to work on it something comes up and I need to put it down. So I don’t have a whole lot done on it and time is running away on me. This is very frustrating. But as I said last night I was going to do this again and yup, you guessed it something came up. Really I don’t know if this is the universes little way of telling me that I shouldn’t be working on this project. I’m almost half tempted to tell my friend that I’m not going to be able to get it done for this year and that maybe should should purchase her parents something else. But, I’m going to give it another week and if I get nothing accomplished in that time, then I think I will end up telling her sorry but it isn’t going to work out.
September 9th, 2008 -- Posted in Crafts |
Well I finally did it!! I broke down and ordered some personalized pens for my home crafting business. I have put this purchase off for quite some time now because I haven’t made a whole lot of profits off my business yet and what little profits I have made, I didn’t want to spend it on advertising. But over the past few months I discovered that word of mouth advertising just wasn’t working out for me. So I convinced my investor (my husband, lol) to pay for this purchase for me. Hopefully I will have them in time for a couple of craft shows I plan on attending. This way I can hand them out and hopefully get more exposure for my business which would hopefully lead to more sales. Then maybe, just maybe I could pay back my investor.
August 22nd, 2008 -- Posted in Crafts, Hobbies |
When I started making handcrafted jewelry I kind of stuck to the same kind of jewelry. I have made a lot of necklaces and bracelets, but have decided that I really need to add to my inventory that I have for sale. So I’m going to branch out into the jewelry world. I’m going to try to make body jewelry and earrings. While trying to sell my jewelry I have had a lot of people ask for these other items and when I tell them I haven’t mastered this art yet, I see a look of disappointment. So I’m going to see if I can’t learn how to make these types of jewelry and then maybe I’ll start selling more.
August 11th, 2008 -- Posted in Crafts |
Today and tomorrow I will finish creating the last pieces of my jewelry. I have a friend who is attending a craft fair next weekend and she has offered to to take all of my jewelry and try to sell it for me. The craft fair that she is going to is quite far away from here so this is why I am not attending in person. Hopefully she will be able to sell a lot of my stock, but if not that’s OK too as I have already booked a couple of tables myself at a few different craft fairs. So wish me and her luck and I’ll be sure to let you all know how this sale works out.
July 10th, 2008 -- Posted in Crafts, income |
In January I set up an Etsy shop to try to promote and sell some of my handcrafted jewelry. I decided to give it a few months to see if this would be a viable solution to my lack of sales. But I am sorry to report that this little venture didn’t work out the way that I wanted it to. So I’ve made a decision. I have decided to dismantle the Etsy shop and try to sell my products through other methods. Thankfully my little test didn’t cost me a whole lot of money, but it did teach me that this method is not the way to go for me. So when my listings expire, I will de-list all my items and close the Etsy shop for good. I’m glad I tried it, but it’s now time to move on.
June 25th, 2008 -- Posted in Crafts, Kids |
Last night decided to get back to the kid’s scrapbooks again. So I dug out all my supplies and pictures and started going through every again. I came across a lot of really nice pictures of the kids that I forgot I had, and instead of putting them in their scrapbooks, I have decided to purchase a digital frame to showcase these special pictures. I don’t have a lot of the kids pictures sitting around the house (they normally go into the scrapbooks) so I thought I would display these particular ones. As the kids get older, I may end up putting these pictures in the scrapbooks, but for now I think I’ll leave them out for everyone to look at.
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