I can honestly say I am living the dream. Not many people can say that. I have a wonderful husband, a beautiful son, and I get to do something that I love to do. Plus I have friends and family that I love. I wake up every day and count my blessings. I love my craft and I get to do it full time. Not many people get to do that full time. It has taken me a couple of years to get to the point where I am finally starting to get somewhere but I am slowly getting there. It has been a lot of hard work. A lot of patience, doing shows, getting my name out there. But now that it is getting out there, I am getting repeat customers and getting a fan base. I am really happy with where things are at.
You can't just set up online one day and think they will come to you. You have to advertise. You have to facebook, tweet, and blog. It takes a lot of time out of your day. It means you may not always get the house spotless. You may not always get dinner cooked. You may put in some 14 and 16 hour days. People who don't have an online business may not realize this. They just think you are playing around on the computer. Or you can do that order later. Every one of your customers is important. There are no sick days. There are very few breaks.
But you get to do what you love and you don't mind it one bit. It's your business. You are working for yourself. There is no boss to tell you what to do. You work that much harder for yourself. And you love every minute of it.
Just some thoughts for today and working for yourself and how exciting it actually is.
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
A Time To Reflect
As many of you know, Indiana was hard hit last Friday by the storms and tornadoes. They hit down in the southern part of the state, but it was still very close to home for me on Friday. As I live in central, IN the tornadoes' wake left a path of destruction about 120 south of me. I feel very helpless right now as I watch the news coverage, and all of the heroes that came out that day and those that gave up their own lives to save someone else's.
My husband had me glued to the weather on Friday, watching it, which is a little unusual for him. I am usually glued it anyway and he usually ignores me when I warn him of bad weather. But this day was different. He told me to let him know what was going on and called me several times for updates. I had bronchitis and Sam was at school. I let him stay after so I could get some extra rest. Scott went and picked him up early. He didn't feel comfortable leaving him there with such bad weather out that day. We had a pretty wicked hail storm, and did go under a tornado warning for a short bit, but here, usually they last about 10 minutes and they are over, nothing really ever comes of them. We very rarely hear sirens (they only set them off if a tornado or funnel cloud has been spotted) and we go on. I had my plan in place for when Sam came home. We have a tornado plan and I have used it once.
Then I heard about down south. All of the pictures of destruction and devastation. Still hearing new stories every night on the news. Last night I cried like a baby about a mom who lost her legs saving her 2 children. I think about how lucky I am. I think about why does this happen? My heart is broken for the family that lost an entire chunk of it's family. A family of 5 wiped out. 2 towns wiped off the map.
But just as life is going on for these people in the Henrysville and Marysville areas ours must also. But my thoughts are never far from these people and in the back of my mind, I wonder where will the next one hit?
My husband had me glued to the weather on Friday, watching it, which is a little unusual for him. I am usually glued it anyway and he usually ignores me when I warn him of bad weather. But this day was different. He told me to let him know what was going on and called me several times for updates. I had bronchitis and Sam was at school. I let him stay after so I could get some extra rest. Scott went and picked him up early. He didn't feel comfortable leaving him there with such bad weather out that day. We had a pretty wicked hail storm, and did go under a tornado warning for a short bit, but here, usually they last about 10 minutes and they are over, nothing really ever comes of them. We very rarely hear sirens (they only set them off if a tornado or funnel cloud has been spotted) and we go on. I had my plan in place for when Sam came home. We have a tornado plan and I have used it once.
Then I heard about down south. All of the pictures of destruction and devastation. Still hearing new stories every night on the news. Last night I cried like a baby about a mom who lost her legs saving her 2 children. I think about how lucky I am. I think about why does this happen? My heart is broken for the family that lost an entire chunk of it's family. A family of 5 wiped out. 2 towns wiped off the map.
But just as life is going on for these people in the Henrysville and Marysville areas ours must also. But my thoughts are never far from these people and in the back of my mind, I wonder where will the next one hit?
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