Falling into Place?
Yesterday I watched my neighbors at Splurge having a meeting. I felt so envious. I get tired of "going it alone". Splurge is an artist co-op...about 5 artists I believe, who share rent, shifts,etc.
When I moved and had the spike in rent, I just chose to work it everyday. No more employees. And THAT gets hard. And just when I thought I was in a place to hire, sales dropped. They are back, but I am playing catch up now. I often have people suggest "You could do ......" but it always requires me doing more, so I feel that I just stay stagnant.
Next door at Sofia, she shares rack space with a gal and that gal also works 4 days a month. Brilliant.
Then it offers up more choices for my addled brain. Do I find someone who rents? Sells for 100% profit and works it off? What will it be? I need someone who has the same style. The commission thing was nuts because it was more paperwork than I ever dreamed imaginable. I thought it would be cut and dry....but no...you miss one day of entries, then 2 days, then three and you are up to your eyeballs in receipts, not to mention balancing checkbooks, paying bills, etc. Oh..and raising kids, maintaining your home, car, friends, family. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. There is not enough Calgon to make that all an easy balance.
Not two hours later I received an e-mail from a local artist suggesting about 75% of what I mentioned above. My jaw nearly dropped to the ground. I forwarded it to JOHN and he thought I'd gone out looking for that person. NOPE. She suggested it to me out of the blue. I have never even met her...only have seen her blog and her website.
I am staying calm. She might meet me and say "Whoa lady....you are one hot mess".
Today I spent the day cleaning, organizing, getting stuff on Etsy, getting it out on clearance....cleaning up in general so if this gal thinks this it could possibly work, I won't scare her by my much organized chaos. :)
Again...deep breaths. I met with an accountant about how it would work, suggestions so it's not suspicious and all on the up & up with taxes, etc. This lady might hear that and say "Uhhhh. No. That was NOT what I was thinking".
Each day is just one big lesson in small business. Some good. Some pretty freaky.
I rode my bike to work today. Car is in the shop for GOD knows how long. So many lights are blinking, are out and saying scary things in other languages.
I tried to fit the bike in my very roomy shop bathroom and it turns out I couldn't really get it in there too well. Some might say it was a tad PACKED in there. This whole purging process is taking some time! I seem to be doing quite a bit of moving boxes from point a (home) to point b(shop).
You can find the "pack of silver fun" (pictured above) here.....
This glitter bird of love can be found here...
Here are some new additions to the shop...
All the cigar boxes are on the floor. I can admit that about 15 stayed at home...just in case. I am not sure in case of what exactly, but I am a "better safe than sorry" kinda gal.
Off to accomplish even more today. Fingers crossed.
Happy Thursday to you all.


































