I have thought about this alot. Why making beads and selling beads has worked for me…How I made it to where I am in less than six years. I mean, really…think about it…I made myself a career in less than a year. Within a year people in the jewelry/bead world, many anyway knew my seller name [...]
Archive for September, 2007
Selling what you believe in and are proud of
Posted in Business, Daily Chatter, beads, jewelry, life, tagged art, beads, Business, eBay, jewelry, lampwork on September 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Grandchildren….another branch in the family tree
Posted in life, tagged family, grandchildren, grandparents, life, photography on September 29, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Grandchildren, being a grandparent. You know what? I love being a gramma! I know many times people aren’t ready. I hear many people my age say they are to young for grandchildren. I never felt that, I was more than ready when Brian and Amanda told us we would be grandparents, and very excited. I know Dan and [...]
how long did it take to become a success
Posted in Business, Daily Chatter, beads, life, tagged beads, Business, life, success on September 28, 2007 | 3 Comments »
That title was a search term in my blog stat’s. Reading that I thought, hmmmmm maybe they want to know? LOL….so now I have a subject for today’s blog. Success has varied meanings, so I looked it up in the dictionary, and yup, varied alright:
suc·cess [ sək séss ]
1. achievement of intention: the achievement of something planned [...]
apology
Posted in life, tagged life on September 27, 2007 | 11 Comments »
Yesterday I realized when viewing a friends blog, that my name on thier blogroll and what I write about might harm them in some way, or the way people perceive them. So I got rid of all my “negative and unhappy” I guess they are called that, post about my life and dealing with my [...]
Trying to form a new routine
Posted in Business, Daily Chatter, beads, jewelry, tagged beads, Business, jewelry on September 26, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Trying to form a new routine….break out of a rutt….Its not easy! I’ll tell ya that. You get used to doing things a certain way and its hard to make new routines. I thought during my time off I could teach myself to do things in a different order. Learn to be more productive and [...]
Cleaning…how did it get so dirty?
Posted in life, tagged cleaning, life, Stress, work on September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Well woke up this morning to another sunshine day. A cup of coffee and I started to clean…how does a house get so dirty? You all of a sudden look around and think, dang! I need to clean this place…so I have been cleaning all day. Now I am tired and ready for a nap [...]
Time Off, Play Time, Reflection’s and Intention’s
Posted in Business, Daily Chatter, beads, tagged art, beads, Business, eBay, glass art, life on September 21, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Well as many of you know, I am taking time off from eBay. eBay is a huge huge part of my at home business. Without it I would never be where I am today. I had a love for jewelry and wanted to learn to make the lampwork beads I was buying for my jewelry. [...]
Fresh Fish…Seafood…Oysters?
Posted in Daily Chatter on September 20, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Well first of all, boy its foggy out! Fall mornings we get a lot lot of fog here in Toledo. We are six miles away from the beach. In fact we can ride our harley along the Yaquina River all the way into Newport to the Bayfront…its a gorgeous ride, one that goes right by [...]
Taking A Break…how it feels
Posted in Business, Daily Chatter, beads, jewelry on September 19, 2007 | 3 Comments »
When you work for yourself, running a small handcrafted bead business…its very hard to “stop” and take a break, after all you make your product, if you don’t work there is nothing to sell. Yet I know I need a break. So today I posted an auction letting my customers know on eBay, that we [...]
Overcast Tuesday-Ooops Updated To Sunny!
Posted in Daily Chatter on September 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Overcast this morning, what a bummer after the sunshine came out yesterday afternoon. Dan and I took a ride on our harley over to the beach. We saw so many birds, really a lot more than normal….from pelican’s …to a couple tree’s near the river with about twenty egret sitting in it. I wished for [...]
