Rambling On

I hit it big time!

Last evening I asked my husband to drive me into town into the big fabric sale that was going on in one of our fabric stores. Well…. I found some amazing deals and ended up spending quite a bit more money than I had originally planned. I was able to buy enough material to make at least four handcrafted bags and with the money I saved I also picked up some graduation invitations as well. Although I don’t need these invitations this year, I will need them next year so I’ll just put them away until I need them.

Well now with all this fabric I have, I’ll be able to start making my bags. Hopefully I can sell them at a reasonable price and start to earn a little income from my home crafting business very soon.

Fabric shopping

Now that my shifts have been cut back at my outside job, I have decided to try to get my home crafting business up and running once again. The first items that I plan on creating will be some handcrafted sewing bags. But to do this, I need to go shopping. Our local fabric store is having a huge sale this week so I think this is the perfect time for me to do some fabric shopping. I’m hoping to have all my fabric bought by this weekend so I can get started on this particular craft. Wish me luck and as soon as I get one made, I’ll be back to post the pictures.

Camping in the rain

Well it looks like this is what is going to take place. Last year we bought a brand new pop up camper trailer and have been making monthly payments on it ever since. But so far this year we haven’t been able to use it at all. I’m serious, it has rained every weekend since the kids have been out of school. Well my husband has decided that we are going to take the trailer out this weekend whether it rains or not. And yes, the weatherman is calling for rain all weekend. It’s too bad that we don’t do any rv camping. This way we wouldn’t have to worry about what the weatherman says. But we really need to get some use out of it. So… we will be going camping in the rain this weekend.

Summer plans

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.

Things are slowing down

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.

New bead store

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.

I’m so jealous

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.

Getting discouraged

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.

I did it!

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.

Adding to my inventory

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.