I wonder, now, if any of my old readers have held on this long. I mean, for me, when someone quits writing I forget about their blog but keep it in my reader, so if they do ever start up again I do see it. "Oh yeah," I say, "that person exists." So I suppose that unless people do spring cleaning, I'm still hanging around. At least for those who use reader or something like that.
I returned to my blog here for several reasons. One: I have a topic! I'm pretty dang excited to announce that we're going to Provo's Farmers Market again this year, and this time we'll start at the start (May 15) and go to the end (October sometime I think) and we'll even have a permanent stall!
Which brings me to number two: Holy crap I have to work my butt off this month. The store averages less than $100 a month, and even last month, a huge upswing in sales, only got us $161. And that's before fees and tithing and such. And the monies for Market are due the 30th of this month, and it's $375. ...yeah.
Number three: Die-hard friends and readers of mine will know that I love to complain. Well, for once it isn't about being sick! I spent all afternoon and evening working on bracelets, and I don't mean making them. I only worked on actual knotting before noon. Then I set out all my bracelets, recorded how much I was selling them for, counted and recorded every single knot in every single bracelet, and used this knowledge of knots to work out how much the bracelets should be if I want to have the price cover both the cost of the materials and pay me $4-$5 per hour. Yeah, that's right, $4-$5 per hour. Fun fact: my biggest bracelet, now priced at $20, has over 1100 knots. Yowza.
Number four: You should totally buy bracelets from me. 'Cause they're awesome. And, as I mentioned, I need the money.
Number five: I believe this is easily known by now, but I'll say it anyway: I'm hoping to use this blog to get more customers to my shop and/or booth. Aside from earning the $375 this month, and then earning that and hopefully more over Market, I really really want to show my brother that I can earn money doing this. He's been very annoyed by me not getting a 'real' job.
That's all for now, I suppose. Hopefully I'll get my book/writing blog back up too; I miss writing!
4 comments:
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I'm still here! And I wish you would blog more. I do so love your writing.
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Me.
I agree! I love your blog, even if I don't comment often. :P
And wow. I don't think I could count that many knots without going absolutely crazy. Which many explain a few things. . . :) But definitely Go You! for undertaking such a task! I still need to one of these days actually get something up in my store.
Thanks for the love, guys. I suppose I'll keep writing.
You SHOULD get something up, dear Dani. I really want to see what you can do!
I may decide to buy a bracelet, but I demand to use my proximity as an excuse to see in person before I buy.
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