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Sunday, April 4, 2004 I'm usually kind of aware when we are due to have a "fun date", but 04-04-04 kind of snuck up on me. Wish I'd been at work today to write/type it a lot. We accounting types are amused by number things, I guess.
I feel like I'm in a bad mood but I really shouldn't be. I accomplished a lot this weekend. When I went to Village Gifts this afternoon to set up the new cards, I was telling another vendor, Nikki, about the clocks and framed pieces that Blue Turtle Studio offers. Next thing I know I'm considering renting additional space, for about $40/month. It's actually a small closet and the walls are a deep burgundy, which I'm half thinking would be ideal to show off these pieces. Plus anything I would make and Lord knows I love to frame stuff. But more lighting is needed, I think. Nikki occupied the closet when she first started and I agree with her, she was able to cram a lot of stuff in there. (It didn't looked crammed in there, don't get me wrong.) I have to run some numbers and figure this out. So that's what I think has me all nerved out and in a bad mood - sort of scared and excited at the same time. Or scared to get excited, more likely. Nikki and I are going to split Saturday shifts, assuming it's okay with Linda and I can't imagine it wouldn't be. So I'll work two Saturdays a month, but just half days. I'm delighted Nikki asked me today if I would do that with her.
Here are some new cards I made today, to fulfill an order. (Mom, the order is boxed up, ready to go! I threw in an extra card to make up for the delay.)
Guess what? In the couple of hours since I stepped away from this entry, before posting it, I've decided not to rent more space. What was I thinking?? I'm so loony. I was thinking I love this new product I'm finding so much that everyone else will too. What I need to think about is how to use my upstairs wall to it's fullest advantage. I have the beaded garlands that Diane makes up there now. I think if I add the framed pictures and clocks to it, it will be way too cluttered. I really want to have a wall of framed art. Do I want to not display Diane's garlands, which will mean she won't display my cards at her weekend craft shows? Neither she nor I are making any money off of each other's product. I'll give this more thought but I guess now it seems obvious what I should and want to do. This is what I love about life. If you wait long enough (and it usually doesn't take long), the answer will come. I love waiting for the answer because I know there will be one. That's a cool thing.
Oh - and it looks like we're getting the 3"-5" of snow as predicted. If that isn't enough to depress the shit out of anyone, I don't know what is. Expected for April in Rochester? Yes. Still depressing? Yup.
Dinner: Baked potatoes. Steve had his with green peppers, onions. little bit of ham, sprinkling of shredded mozzarella and hot sauce. I had mine with onions, cauliflower, carrots, little bit of ham and sprinkling of shredded mozzarella. And we both had chives and salt and pepper. Simon opted for spaghetti with Alfredo sauce. I half-thought about putting Alfredo sauce on my potatoes but it's fairly high in fat so I stuck with what I had. Reading: Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew. This is the book I bought on eBay recently. I'd borrowed it from the library twice, then decided I really wanted to own it. It turns out I'm finding it much more readable at this time of year when planting season is within sight (if May counts as within sight, and I think it does) - than trying to read it in the dead of one of the coldest, snowiest winters in Rochester history.
Listening to in the car: The Amateur Marriage: A Novel, by Anne Tyler.
I'll start this one in the morning. Yay, a new audiobook!
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