Last night I was cleaning out my spare closet and came across some of the Bereavement Cards that I received when my parents passed away. After five years, I was finally able to look at them. So I have decided that now is the time to create a handcrafted scrapbook of all my parents pictures plus all the memories I have of them. In this scrapbook, I plan on adding all the Sympathy Bereavement Cards that I received as well. All of these condolence cards are so beautifully made, that it just wouldn’t be a proper scrapbook without them. I guess after five years I’m finally able to face the memories.

Most of you may not be aware of this, but one of my most favorite hobbies to engage in is reading. Really it makes no difference as to what type of book it is or who the author is, if it’s a book, I will read it. Well I have pretty much read everything that I had in my home and mentioned to a friend that I was going to have to go out and purchase some more. Well, she mentioned that she had a couple of books that I might enjoy reading and after she was done with them, she would pass them on over to me.

Well, much to my surprise, the two books she had were from my absolute favorite author, Beatrice Small. I could have sworn that I had read everything that this lady had ever wrote. But the two books that I received from her I hadn’t read before. So you can guess what I’ve been doing every evening this week. That’s right! Enjoying Beatrice Small. It’s too bad that I’m almost done the second one. Now I have to go on the hunt once again for more reading material.

As my father in law is now 70 he is not as active in the outside world as he once was. So he has started taking up different hobbies that he can enjoy in his house. One of the hobbies that he has recently gotten very interested in is in CB radios. Years ago he had gotten into this hobby, but life and time sort of got in his way and he kind of got out of it. But now with all this free time he seems to find on his hands, he has decided to give it another go.

Because of his past experience with this particular hobby, he already has a couple of CB radios of his own. But both of them are really not working right now so he has been trying to find a place where he can get a fairly inexpensive cb radio repair quote. Well thanks to me, I have found a site where he would be able to find this type of service.

Not only do they offer repair services on all types of CB radios. But they also supply CB accessories as well. They offer a 120% guarantee on all their sales and service. Their prices are extremely competitive with the market rates and their sales staff are more than knowledgeable and helpful in their customer service department. So now that I’ve found this site for him, he will be good to go with his latest hobby.

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.

Well I’ve been listening to the news lately and have been hearing all about the US and how they are dealing with their recession period. Well here in Canada we are not doing much better. The economy has slowed considerably right now and if your anything like I am, you are just trying to find different ways to survive.

Well one of the ways that I have been using to try to survive in these very trying economic times, is by resurrecting my home crafting business. About a year ago I tried to get this little business up and running. But after a couple of months of not having any significant sales, I got a little discouraged and put this idea on the back burner. Well, I have decided that if I want to make any income at home, I’m going to have to give my idea of creating a small business a little more thought.

One area where I have been concentrating on is how I have been accepting payments for all my crafts in the past. In the past I hadn’t utilized any services such as Credit Card Factoring and I really do think that I probably lost some sales due to this. As most people use credit cards these days, I have decided that if I want to get real serious about this business, I am going to have to implement this option. I would be able to do this by using the services of onlinecheck.com. They have a very fast approval system in place with less stringent requirements to getting a loan. And with no closing costs or fees, I could potentially save some cash in the long run.

So, this is definitely something I’m going to need to give more thought to. I’ll let you all know how I make out with my little home crafting business.

Just wanted to let you all know that I will be doing a book review on this blog very very shortly.  I received the book late last week and am about half way through the book.  So hopefully within a week you will be able to read all about the book that I received and read.

This book will be especially of interest to you all that enjoy romance novels.  And that’s all I’m going to say for now on the subject.  If you want to learn more….you’ll just have to stay tuned for the upcoming review.

For all you guys who are regular reader’s of this blog, in the next few weeks your going to start to see something different in here.  I have joined a site that will send me books free of charge to review them on my site.  This is such an awesome opportunity for me as I love to read.

My main interest in reading is historical romance, but I will read just about anything.  Right now I am waiting for the mail lady to deliver me a couple of books.  When I get them and have read them, I will do a review of the books on this site.  This way you can find out if this might be a book that would interest you.

So as soon as I get my books and have read them, you will see the reviews on this site.