Years ago I loved to cross stitch. But lately I just can’t seem to get myself into it. Last week I decided that I would make a counted cross stitch piece for my father in law and his wife for Christmas. I started a piece, but I’m really not that eager to continue with it. I know I really should start working on it and finish it, but I really have no interest in it. I don’t know if I’ve lost my love for crafting or if I’m just going through a dry spell. Hopefully my love of it will come back soon and I will be able to have it completed for Christmas.
Right now I am trying to get two businesses up and running. The main business I’m trying to promote would be my home transcription business and the second business that I have been working at is my small home crafting business. But with so much going on in my life lately, I really haven’t been working at these quite as much as I should be. I realize that to attract potential customers and clients, I need to advertise. And that’s the exact area where I have been slacking. So I have been checking around the Internet to see if I can find an award winning public relations company to help me out in this area.
Well I have found one that I really think I could work with. This company would give me all the exposure and publicity that I so desperately need and at a very reasonable cost. I think I will test them out with my home transcription company and if I get some results that I like, I will then let them have a go at my home crafting business. Any type of help like this will certainly help me out in the long run.
There is an upcoming Eater craft fair coming to our area, but I don’t think I will be attending. I may go in and see what other’s are selling, but I won’t be putting a table in this time. I just haven’t had the time lately to work on any projects so I really don’t have the inventory set aside that would make this venture worth my time. If life ever slows down again, I will then start making crafts again and start building up my inventory again. Hopefully this happens sooner rather than later and I can get back in the crafting business again. I really do miss it, but unfortunately real life seems to be getting in the way. But, I have all the supplies here at home, so all I really need to do is find the time to get back at it.
Well my last post in here got my motivation back for crafting and getting my home crafting business up and running. Yesterday after work I started to go through all my crafting magazines to see what I could create to try to sell. Well I came across an old unicorn cross stitch pattern and thought I may like to make this pattern. Years ago (probably 10-12 years ago) I made a couple of these and actually had someone buy both. I made a pretty good profit off my efforts so I have decided that I’m going to try to do this again. So instead of making jewelry I’m going to get back into cross stitching again. This is a perfect craft to do while I’m watching TV in the evenings as it doesn’t take a lot of “brain” work to do something like this.
When I get one of these patterns finished, I’ll be sure to pop back in and show you a picture of the finished product.
Many of you may not know this, but one of my favorite hobbies to partake in would be crafts. I do all sorts of crafts such as cross stitching, plastic canvas, knitting, sewing, quilting, making jewelry and scrapbooking. Well I have a ten year old daughter that I have tried to get interested in doing the different types of crafts. But she doesn’t seem to have the patience.
Well you can just about imagine my surprise when she came home last week with a permission slip to join the cross stitching class. Any time I have tried to show her, she has lost interest very quickly. This is why I was surprised that she had some interest. I don’t know maybe some of her friends are participating, or maybe it’s because the teacher that’s doing this is one that she really really likes. Whatever her reason, I’m glad that she is finally showing an interest in crafts. And if this teacher can teach her, then that’s a bonus as well.
Many of you may not know this, but I am trying to get a home crafting business up and running. I have started a website/blog over at Simply Crafting. In this blog I have pictures displayed (samples below) of some of the items that I currently have for sale. Right now most of the inventory that I have listed on the site is of handcrafted jewelry. All of the pieces are handcrafted by me and the prices are very competitive to other sites that I have come across.
So, I hope you all have enjoyed looking at these pictures. If any of these items or the items over at Simply Crafting are of any interest to you and you would like to make a purchase, all you need to do is leave me a comment here and I’m sure we can work out a deal.
I look forward to hearing from you all.
