words of wisdom from a pro...

A few days ago, I had Easter dinner at my friend Joe's house. This is a huge Easter tradition among our friends, and everyone gets semi-dressed up and has mimosas and plays croquet in the yard if it's sunny. Then we all eat giant amounts of food that Joe's mom makes. It is always really nice. Some years I attend, like this year, and some I don't, like last year when I went on a little trip for Easter vacation which included visiting my friend, Mackie's parents and going to SEE ROCK CITY in Chattanooga. On a side note, if you ever have the opportunity to go to Rock City, you should do so. It is awesome and really really weird.
This year at Easter dinner I talked to Stacy Clifford a whole lot about her business, Perlaanne. She makes really beautiful hand printed cards and journals and magnets and all kinds of other stuff and on top of that, she has managed to be both creative and successful in turning that passion into a business that makes her some money. It's her whole job! What a leap of faith she must have taken! She told me all about how she got a business loan and went to tradeshows, like the National Stationery Show. It sounded really expensive and hard and like a lot of work...but it sounded exactly like something I want to try to do. I am totally intimidated by the idea of taking out a loan and spending all kinds of money to get inventory set up and a booth at a tradeshow and taking orders for stuff, etc. but it seems like the next step to take. I really need to get a functioning website and some promotional materials made for that kind of thing. Baby steps toward a long-term goal. Alright bloggers, I resolve that I will do at least 1 thing every week toward making this more of a business rather than a hobby, whether that means make a least one new thing every week, or work on ideas for a clearer more intuitive website, or sketch some new ideas, or make a new contact... Ok...BREAK! GO TEAM!