And Another Thing . . .
And Another Thing . . .
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Sunday, February 29, 2004 I'm so damn predictable. I'm in crash and burn mode. You haven't heard from me all week because I've been extremely focused on moving my cards to the 4-sided card rack at Village Gifts. Even when I wasn't physically working on something, my head was fully, permanently engaged there. It was exhausting. Today was the day. It's done. And I have pictures. But the predictable part is I have not been able to sit still or stop thinking about it for days. As soon as I was done setting it up - I entered crash and burn mode, aka "no one will ever buy anything, who do I think I'm kidding, I'm a big fakey-fake loser." Happens every time. I know it shall pass. When I came home, I read for a while so I could concentrate on something else for a while. I'll be back to my usual perky self in the morning, if not by this evening even.
Last week Jennifer and I went to the store on our lunch hour to add some cards to my old wall display. Driving back to the office I realized I used to stress about having too few cards, now I was stressing because I had too many cards for the racks I had upstairs. Back at work that afternoon Jennifer told me to just do it. Even if the 4-sided rack is not 100% filled, just do it - set it up, get it going. I immediately knew she was right. It was one of those weird circumstances that people do sometimes. I knew that I needed to do that but I needed someone else to tell me to do it or give me permission or something. Earlier in the week, I knew I was feeling overwhelmed by the number of possibilities before me. Sometimes I couldn't even talk to Jennifer about it, it was so whirly in my head. From that moment (Thursday), I shifted into high gear to be able to set this up today. Jennifer was right when she thought I maybe had enough cards without having to buy anything wholesale to help fill it up. Maybe that's why things have been taking so long on that front, to give me time to recognize that. I was approved for a Pine Tree Designs credit card last week but I don't have the account number yet so I haven't ordered anything. I'm actually a little disappointed that I don't have room on the rack at the moment because I really wanted to sell those things. I probably still will but I need to slow down and let the answer come to me. It will. It always does. If I don't have to use the credit card, it will make me even happier. In spite of feeling less than inspired at this very moment, I know this is a much better location and have every reason to be optimistic that my sales will increase.
One of the things I did in preparation was to make four signs like this one to put over the Debbie Mumm signs at the top of the rack. Each one is 8" x 18" so I was wondering where I'd find paper long enough. Wrapping paper maybe? I wanted to use something I had. Bingo! I had 4 bags I'd saved from stores from who knows when - 2 green checked and 2 red checked. Those are metal brads in the corners.
I also made new headers for the glasses chains. The say: Glasses Chains One for every outfit! $3.00 each Buy 3, get 1 free My logo stamp is on the back. As you can see, they are attached to the shelves with tiny suction cups. Please God, let them stick! I hope Linda doesn't open the shop on Tuesday to find them all over the floor!
I also made cards to hold the heart pins I'd made for Valentine's Day. At the top it says Hearts Gone Wild and PineTreeDesigns.com at the bottom. I punched two tiny holes in the card for the pin to be fastened through. I'm happy with how they turned out. And I raised the price to $3.00. Because I can.
This is the mirror and beaded garlands Diane gave me to sell - on my wall upstairs. As you know, I'm currently getting both spaces for the price of one. In April, I'll use just the rack. I'm not sure what I'll do with the garlands at that point. I can't mar the wood on the corners of the card rack but I have some ideas.
This is the sign I made for the garlands.
I fully believe that things happen the way they are supposed to. I can't remember if I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I emailed my massage therapist for an evening appointment that week but she didn't have anything available. Mom gave me a gift certificate for Christmas that I was going to use. So I decided the heck with it, I'd wait for another time. A few days later Bev emailed me that she had a couple of evening appointments open on March 1 and 3, which seemed so incredibly far away. I took the March 1 appointment anyway. That's tomorrow! This is such perfect timing - to really rid me of the stress I've been feeling these past few days. This still kills me the way stress manifests itself in my body. I think I'm so in touch with my feelings, blah, blah, blah - but dang, it snuck up on me again this week. I've been headachy and quite tense in my neck, shoulders, back and even legs somewhat. Too weird.
It seems like I had other things to say but my brain is mush right now. Time to go make gumbo for dinner. Then I think I'll catch up on journal entries and go to bed extra early and read my book.
Dinner: Gumbo and a salad, with no sugar-added peanut butter chocolate ice cream for dessert. Reading: From Chunk to Hunk by Fred Anderson Listening to in the car: What Should I Do With My Life? by Po Bronson
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