the big show and the busy week

Well, things are finally settling back down after Saturday night's show. It was such a great show. I had so much fun seeing all my friends and I doubled my sales from last year. That was nice!

Sunday morning I got up and picked up Melissa from the airport. Then I spent the rest of the day building a website for one of James' clients. I think it came out pretty good! The customer was pleased. James thinks I should go into business making websites. Sometimes I think about it - I would definitely need to take some classes to amp up my technical skills but I feel I have a good grasp of what a good website entails. I actually get a lot of emails through my website asking who did my website. Maybe I could turn those around into business?! ha ha. Maybe when I get tired of making jewelry, I will have a new career designing websites! The good thing is that James understands all the super technical stuff about ftp and shopping carts so we could be business together.

I spent Monday and Tuesday catching up on household chores. Tuesday night we made dinner for some friends who are going to keep our dog while we are on vacation. I feel so good knowing that he will be in a house with people who will take such good care of him. Yesterday was busy with taking Forest places and going to the bg artist orientation.

So today is my first day to get back to the jewelry. Hopefully I get to work through until next Wednesday when I go home for Thanksgiving. I need to PRODUCE some jewelry! The first part of December is going to be crazy! But, I do love to make money. I heard this old interview with AmySedaris on FreshAir where she was talking about how much she loved to make a buck - she would have a party and put out a bunch of stuff she wanted to get rid of and sell everything for a quarter and she also has a small business making cheese balls. She said she just really likes the feeling of making money. I feel like that when I sell jewelry. I just really like to make money! ha ha.

Man, I am seriously listening to a lot of old episodes of FreshAir lately. They have them all archived on npr.org and you can just go back and listen to all the interesting interviews. I like listening to stuff like that when I am working. I like music okay but I really like talking wordy things - like AlFrankenShow, FreshAir, audio books.

Okay, so I am going to work on jewelry today, go to yoga, meet up with Melissa for lunch and then work on jewelry some more! Tomorrow night I am having a couple of friends over for dinner. Then I am going to work all weekend on jewelry - and maybe go on the EastAustinStudioTour if I feel I have time. And, that's my week!

Oh man, bg orientation last night was super neat. I am really amped for the show! The organizers seem so nice and earnest in their attempts to create a good show. I am so excited to be a part of it.

PS: Since I have been getting googleAlerts for my own business, I feel so self conscious about using the names of things on my blog because I know that they come up in google searches sometimes. Does running the names together help that? That's so weird!