Very thankful… doing some positive thinking journaling.  Sort of racing thoughts, though.

So… I wished for a good bath line, and found them.  They have the most amazing candles and lotions… all very reasonable with great packaging and the ability to jazz it all up and also add to the line with my own soaps.  I’m SO excited.  I think this is an awesome wholesale opportunity.  Also, I’m fairly certain that the awesome candle company, who is a mom and pop, could make candles for me without packaging that I could package and sell with my line.  Awesome.  I can’t say “awesome” enough… because this is the most amazing feeling.  I asked for a new bath line that’s reasonable and answered my needs and it fell in my lap.

Also… I’ve been hoping for help.  And sure enough, [my friend] comes along and wants to help me out! YAHOO!!!!  She has a flexible schedule, is very competent, I LOVE working with her and she is so smart.  Exactly what I wanted and on such short notice.

Today was SUPER busy.  The postcard didn’t get to me until wednesday and I wore myself out getting them into the mail that night… and last night, until 6 am, killer.  I should have passed on the turkey, but I’m glad I went.

So, back to today…. I was on a roll… I wrote down that I wanted to make $5,000.  Figured out by 3pm I needed to make $16.00 a minute.  It was happening for about an hour then bam… it stopped.  Was it because my husband brought me lunch and my focus changed?  Because it’s so windy and it got dark?  I’ll pick up the slack tomorrow.  But I think we did just over $2000.  Which frankly, is quite amazing (It actually came out to 1750… for random customers coming in who saw my blog, that’s pretty good).  My goal is $15,000 for this weekend.

I’ve been very conservative with ordering… it’s good.  I think I’ve made good decisions.  Next… tea stuff… cups, serving pieces etc.  So, I want to spend about another $1500 or so on fill-in.  What do I need?  Let that sink in, answer in a few days.

Also… merchant account… square that away THIS weekend, by MONDAY.

A homeworker was working on the jewelry for me and it’s DONE with all the pieces I gave her.  At this rate, I’ll have all these cases full with finished pieces from beads I had sitting around.  A real return on my investment, it’s my designs, it gives her a small income and my customers love it.  Her workmanship is superb and she “gets it”.  I’m so excited.

Next…. art for boards and cards.  Holiday soap.  Think retro, victorian, snowmen etc.

Calm night.  Clean entry.  Quiet sleep.  Up early and rested for tomorrow.  Ready to hit my goal.

Just so thankful and happy.

Keep thinking about wholesale.  I really want to go in that directions.  With the homeworker epiphany, all sorts of new packaging and more confidence in my art, feeling more organized, with my friend helping… I think we could really do amazing things.

I love the Holidays!

Lastly…. 5 vendors…. great vendors with nice stuff, good prices, unique, fun, great personality, flexible, respectful, grateful… will contact me regarding the show.  This will happen by Tuesday so i can make the postcard, stat.