Friday, April 10, 2015

Getting Back into the Groove, for the First real time

Today I felt well enough to get some work done. So I sat in bed all day reading articles on my laptop. Don't get me wrong, I was working. Maybe not the hands on creative work I usually prefer. No, today I got into the nitty gritty tedious and almost torturous labor of researching and planning out marketing. The main point I gleaned from the dozens of articles I read on the subject was simply this; Be yourself. Well of course I'll be myself. Yet the problem(s) with being myself is this; I'm naturally an optimistic pessimist, also known as a realist, who's a bit anti-social, socially awkward, and introverted. I don't really like talking about myself, ever, to anyone. And I can count my close friends on one hand. Generally, I have no problem being myself around those close friends. I can be friendly and witty and sarcastic and personable, and talk about them or things that don't matter until I'm blue in the face. My issue, I've come to find, is showcasing my friendly, witty and personable self to people I don't know. More specifically, in writing, in my Esty shop. When it comes down to it, I'm not naturally wordy enough for the internet. Yes, I see the irony here. This is a blog post, and I write it as though no-one will read it, except for maybe my dad. (Hi, dad!) Even though I have actually had a blog since 2007, I don't have a following. Probably because the aforementioned statements (paired with the fact that I'm terribly inconsistent when it comes to scheduling, and I don't stay on topic.)  (What was I writing about again?)



Last week I was terribly sick. I laid on the couch and watched old crime dramas such as "Murder, She Wrote." This morning, my husband and I spoke at length about our goals and disappointments for the past few years. I found myself, the pot, giving him, the kettle, some very sound advice for the umteenth time, and wondering why I never take my own advice. So this week I'm setting some short term goals. If I can keep with them, then I'll set some more goals, If I can't then I don't really want what I think I want and I should just give up on myself and get a "real job" and waste away for eternity working for someone else and live out my miserable existence as a blip on the radar, or another statistic. Sounds dreadful.



Some of these short term goals include;

- Retake photos of current Etsy inventory. Try and make them better than the ones I have.

- Review said listings and make some adjustments.

- Start work on pile of projects that I've been avoiding since my last trip to the fabric store, costumes don't make themselves.

- Do SOME work every day and don't sit around like a louse! (Except for Tuesday. I can be a louse on Tuesday if I want, hubs has the day off Tuesday.)



Does anyone want to help me with photography? I'll bake you any confection you desire (within reason) as payment.



Originally posted on Ceeyena Inspired


Saturday, March 28, 2015

I can't figure out this button.

I was told to add a Pintrest button to my images on my website today. So I used the widget builder and am none-the-wiser on how to actually utilize it. Maybe I should do some more research.

In other news; I should be photographing more items for sale on Etsy at some point today. I suppose my first order of business should be finding my camera charger, then charging my camera, which is undoubtedly dead. I don't have any specific one type of item, there is a variety for posting today. Then my hausfrau duties kick in.

I feel I must apologize, I occasionally write as if people read my blog. But more often than not, I write as if no one does.


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Test Failure!

Monday, March 23, 2015

Price Reductions and a Journal Style Entry

Nothings more annoying than when people write about how they don't write... I'm guilty of doing this, and I apologize.

In other news; I have been thinking a lot lately, since the snow is melting... I should change all of the prices on my etsy shop. So I have. I knocked $5-15 off of every item that is already posted in my shop. In the future, items will be posted for these new lower prices. Also; I still don't care to deal with figuring shipping charges, so there's still free shipping. (And a coupon on the front page for 20% off)

That being said; I found the tub with all of the other scarves in it, which I have yet to photograph and post. Seriously, an entire tub. One of those rubbermaid ones with the lids. Bigger than a file box, not as big as an actual bathtub. Full. Granted; there are also vintage gloves in there as well. Like; driving gloves, and white gloves that fancy people wore with their fancy gowns in days gone past. fancy. Plus I've created more inventory of my own. Messenger bags galore! Well, maybe not galore, but a few. I'll take pictures and post things once the world outside is no longer brown and gray. Or freezing.

In other news; completely unrelated to the aforementioned etsy shop news: I think we've decided it's time to move again. We'd like to be closer to friends, I want to go back to school for something I'm actually interested in, and Puese's job is essentially killing him for pennies over minimum wage. That being said; I'm looking for a good architecture program. I'll also be filming a personal project over the next... until it's done. Which will involve just about all of those things that I ever wanted to be when I grew up. Less being Sherlock Holmes and an architect.

On that first note; I'm sorry for the last posts over on my health blog. I'm including no link because the content is ridiculous, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to go delete them now. If you haven't read them yet, they've been up for almost a year, what exactly were you waiting for?