Mother's Day

It was a good day. Got to listen to Smed preach on day four and five in Genesis! It was amazing. What a great reminder to look at the sun set and rise and remember how amazing God is. Also the stars and the moon, and enjoy the sun, all praising God for what He created. Then lunch with my parents and my brother! I finished the laundry yesterday, so I got to sit back and enjoy the day. Its the first time in a long time that I got to hang out with Jerry and Taylor and not have house work to work on. It was great. So to all you mothers out there, I hope you also had a good mother's day.

Smiles

Well in the past three weeks I have gotten three sales! Its funny I have sold a lot of earrings and earrings isn't what I intend to keep making and selling. I guess I will have to re-think that. But I am excited I got one sale from a friend and one sale from two people that I don't know and through promoting on etsy. I guess it paid off to join some teams and buy into a Buy and Stay thing on etsy. Its kind of cool how they work. Someone picks some stores, mine has been chosen a few times, to feature. Then its open for up to 12 sales. Those that buy from that list will then be featured the next time. The only problem I see is its mostly sellers involved. So we are buying from each other. That is cool and all, but some of us don't have money to be buying a bunch of stuff. But I am greatful for the sales I have gotten. I am just hoping I continue getting sales now that my sale count has gone up and my feed back has as well. So I am hoping that non-sellers that see my stuff are more inclined to buy from me. I really enjoy crocheting and making stuff, I just hope my store takes off soon. I am also excited because some friends and I are planning to have a boutique in July! I hope that will also help get my store out there and encourage people to pass on my site. We shall see!

Etsy

So as many of you already know, I have a shop on etsy and I am trying to cultivate sales. I know I am always trying to find ways to make extra money for our family and this is the latest venture. I work for my dad part time, mostly from home, but its accounting work and mostly once a year work too. There is a little bit through out the year, but not much. Our hard times are the fall. I work spring/tax season, then Jerry works over time during the busy months of summer at his job. Then comes the fall/winter. His work slows down. I did partylite for a while, technically I still can, but not really trying to. So I inherited all this yarn from my grandmother as many of you already know. What am I going to do with it all. I had already tried selling some hair clips on etsy and jewlery, but that didn't seem to go over well (no sales). Then I decided to sell the stuff I crocheted. After all I can use only so many blankets, earrings, shawls, and hats before my house will be overflowing with such items. I have had lots of interest from friends and gotten quiet a few sales. So this is where I am going to stay, crocheting and trying to sell on etsy. I have had two people that I do not know threw etsy purchase baby blankets. It was a dream come true, or at least an answer to prayer, Thank you God for allowing me to sell to someone outside my friends and family, what a blessing! Anyway, so now I am doing all I can to try and promote my store. So, if you have gifts to give, or know of someone who might be looking for what I am making, please let them know about my store, I would greatly appreciate that. My site is princessandq.etsy.com I would love to have you and your friends stop in and take a look. God has blessed me with a tallent, and crocheting is it. Yes I love to ride horses, but I will never be amazing at it. I enjoy it and love doing it, but I have refused to ever jump higher than 3 feet. I did once and it scared me to death. Okay not really, but I am glad I did it but never want to do so again. But with crochet I love it and I don't want to brag, but many friends have commented and said they love my stuff, thanks my dear friends. It has really encouraged me and excited me that while my Grandmother was an artist that painted beautiful paintings, made beautiful pots out of clay, knitted beautiful things, gardened, and even crocheted, that I inherited something from her. I just love finding fun projects and taking what I have and making them. Some projects are on hold until after my stash is small and I can actually purchase the yarn and colors I want. It has been good though because my desire is to eventually only make some items for my store. They will be baby blankets, baby, toddler, and little kid beanies, baby booties, and flower clips and headbands. These are all simple projects that I just love making. If there is something you see, but not the color you want, I do take requests. I will let you know if there is a problem and I am not able to make it, but Lord willing I will be able to. Thanks for taking time to read about me and my adventure of running my own store through etsy. Hope you stop by and see it! princessandq.etsy.com

Family Get Away

Well this last weekend our little family took a trip up to my parents new cabin. This was our first time just the three of us. It was fun. Saturday it began to snow! It was beautiful, but it was so strange thinking back to only months ago when we were there last when it snowed. I had just found out I was pregnant, so I was only 3 1/2 weeks along, and we had lunch that weekend with my Grandfather. Since then I miscarried at 6 weeks (December) and my Grandfather died right after the new year. God has taught me soooooo much through this hard time. I am so thankful for everything God has done, it was so hard to go through, but I have gotten to know Him even better because of it and I know that I can trust Him. I am really learning a lot about what it means to trust Him completely. I am finding myself learning again what it means to be completely content. Meaning yes I want another little one, but that I love Taylor and I am okay if she is all He chooses to bless me with. She is a wonderful daughter and I praise God everyday for her.




Just after Thanksgiving

The rest were this last weekend!




Well, as for our really fun weekend, it was awesome. We got to play in the snow! Jerry taught Taylor how to throw a snow ball, she loved it. Then we played hide and seek again with her. Jerry hide while Taylor and I went looking for him. To make it fun for her I made up a silly song and sang what I was doing. I decided to look in the pantry (the lights turn on when you walk in) and as I was going to look behind the door I was singing to Taylor that I doubted Jerry was going to be there since the lights weren't on. As I pulled the door back there stood Jerry, trying so hard not to laugh at my silly song! I screamed so loud! I was soooo not expecting him to be there. It made for some fun memories.

Orange Earrings

I just posted the orange earrings in my etsy store! I just love these earrings. I have many more colors that I will be posting in my store as well in the coming days/weeks. So if orange is not your color then keep an eye out for a different color, or just let me know what color you are looking for! My store to buy these are is princessandq.etsy.com

My Etsy Store

Well, I have decided to start focusing on my etsy store and get some sales. I joined a circle that helps those of us who are new to etsy and struggling to get sales. One of the pieces of advice that I received was to post about 24 items in my store. I realized that I have not yet had that much in my store at one time. So everyday until I have filled my store with everything I have made to sell I will be posting something. So if you have looked at my store today, keep coming back because I will continue posting new items everyday. I also set up an account through facebook with my store information to help premote my store. I do take requests, that is if I am able to do them, so don't hessitate to ask. If I can't do it I will let you know, otherwise I would be more than happy to do it!

princessandq.ety.com

Life

Well, things are going great with my etsy stuff. I still only have two sales of stuff I have made on etsy, but I have sold a few things to friends who have requested stuff, so fun. Right now I am finishing up making two scarves for an old friend and for a new friend I am making adorable little girl hats. I just finished making similar hats for my cousins twins! They turned out so adorable, can't wait to see the girls with them on. I am so busy from now until Christmas. I think with knowing that Jerry and I are leaving the day after Christmas for the Bahams is what is stressing me out. So much has to be done before Christmas, including packing us and having Taylor and her stuff ready for staying at her grandparents house. But one step at a time. Things are one by one getting done, which is awesome! But it is like school I stress until things start getting done. Even though it school you are given four to five months to get all of a sememsters worth of work done, it didn't matter it just felt like it was all due the next day. That was a great lesson for me in school to learn, start getting stuff done, the stress goes as the list gets smaller. So that is what I am doing. All the Christmas decorations are almost done and will be by Saturday. Christmas cards start going out by tomorrow, so by next week they should all be delivered and done. By the end of this week my friends scarves will be done and I will be able to get working on the hats. The hats should take no longer than two weeks, with plenty of time for Christmas! So that is how crazy my life is right now. Now I am just hoping to see my etsy store sell a few more already made items!