After a long run, prolific for a long time and mostly silent for even longer, I am stepping away from this blog and moving on to new adventures. I've tried to make my new endeavors fit within the confines of this blog but it feels wrong to me. The archives will remain since they continue to receive fair amount of traffic even after all this time.
If you want to follow my current adventures, join me on my new blog Saved by Kate
Thanks to all. It has been a privilege to be a part of your lives.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
New Year, New Goals, New Strategies
In the days after Christmas leading up to the new year, I pondered what my resolutions were and I realized that I didn't want to make whimsical resolutions. What I really wanted to do was set some concrete goals for myself. The goal I kept coming back to was, to be open to the opportunities that present themselves.
So what does that really mean? Well, I can't count how many times someone has said something like, "I would totally pay you to make one of those for me" or something similar. My answer has always been more of a bashful "ah c'mom" than a decisive, "let's talk about what that would entail." My goal is to change my response and see if that actually gets people interested in a "put your money where your mouth is" kind of a way.
So we're in the third full week of January and here's how its working so far. I've already been asked to make a hat and been paid for it. The same person asked if I'd make a second one to donate for a charity auction and would I please include business cards so she could talk me up to the bidders. (To say I love this person doesn't adequately express my feelings and no, she's not a relation.) I'm also in the middle of a putting together a memory quilt for an acquaintance who is a great sewist but doesn't enjoy the random, non-traditional technique that this kind of quilt begs for, and yes, she's paying me to do it.
I'm feeling pretty good about my new approach. What are your goals moving into the new year?
So what does that really mean? Well, I can't count how many times someone has said something like, "I would totally pay you to make one of those for me" or something similar. My answer has always been more of a bashful "ah c'mom" than a decisive, "let's talk about what that would entail." My goal is to change my response and see if that actually gets people interested in a "put your money where your mouth is" kind of a way.
So we're in the third full week of January and here's how its working so far. I've already been asked to make a hat and been paid for it. The same person asked if I'd make a second one to donate for a charity auction and would I please include business cards so she could talk me up to the bidders. (To say I love this person doesn't adequately express my feelings and no, she's not a relation.) I'm also in the middle of a putting together a memory quilt for an acquaintance who is a great sewist but doesn't enjoy the random, non-traditional technique that this kind of quilt begs for, and yes, she's paying me to do it.
I'm feeling pretty good about my new approach. What are your goals moving into the new year?
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