Time For Some Changes

Ugh....I love Mondays :( it hasn't been too bad really,  they're just the craziest of them all. After work I had to take my daughter to the dentist to get sealant, or whatever you call it, put on her back permanent teeth. This was our first afternoon appointment since she decided to throw fits a few years back.  Afterwards she had to have Chic FIL A, a habit you  develop when you have 8a.m. dental appointments,  lol.
     Onto business. ..I got my new magnetic hoops in today, this is going to make my life so much easier,  so sick of fast frames and the ones you have to push through the clothing into the other part of the frame. Speaking of making my life easier. ...I LOVE my business and I do not want to close it. I have my etsy shop which I have done great with,  but since April,  not so well. I use to keep 20 plus orders and now, right now I have FIVE!!! With that,  I can see that I can't depend on it. My feedback is great, if I mess up, I fix it, etc. So I know it's not my business,  it's just etsy not letting me shine or there's just too much there to be seen through.  I need to know where I'm going,  get better,  not worst.  I'm going to be booking events,  I will post when I have one scheduled. I'm also thinking of ONLY having premade stuff available as the orders just get so stressful, especially during the holidays. I have some, well, a lot of people I will have 20 convo with about their order.  I don't mind,  but working full time, my family,  the convos, the orders that take about an hour each,  it gets to me and leaves me with no time for me or my family.  I think if I just have ready to go stuff, certain things in certain sizes,  ready to ship as soon as it's purchased will help me so much with my stress and time management. Maybe,  eventually I'll start the orders up again,  but I have got to find a consistent path first.  BTW, I plan to have 100 pre made shirts ready to go.  I also plan to open ebay back up since this will be easier to list. 
 

Busy Days =Great Nights Sleep

I slept great and went to sleep as soon as I went to bed last night.  Having my coffee now and will be getting ready to plant my flowers soon.  I'm going to work on my hanging baskets and some pots. My husband just turned the water back on for the pool. It was bowing real bad on the sides. Coleman messaged me saying it was normal so we're going to finish feeling it up. We got new floats yesterday so I may get in it for a little bit.  Just relax. 
    I have been stressing myself so much with my busuness, working everyday. It has me feeling like that is all I have time to do when it's really just me not taking a break.  I have decided that when I can,  my weekends will be family time.  It just gets so hard to turn my mind off, lol. I will be setting up on the weekends sometimes at festivals and the holidays can be crazy....but those times when I'm not busy with that,  I will not be going up to my shop on the weekend.
   Enjoy the rest of your weekend,  looks like a beautufil day here.

Busy Fun Day

I am exhausted! !! We started our day at 7 a.m. heading to Collinsville, AL to do some flea market shopping. We were there for several hours.  We got home and unloaded stuff (I go for the flowers, trees, etc.) I planted some plants by some steps outside and we started cleaning one of my flower beds that is all rock. It is under sweet gum trees so we have decided to cover it with mulch instead of more rock that's just going to get full of those round things and leaves again.  We were also filling the kids pool. We got them a rectangle pool by Coleman last weekend.  While it was filling we went to eat at Golden Coral. Then to Sam's, Hobby Lobby, Target, Home Depot for more mulch and potting soil, and to Duncan Donuts because I told husband yesterday that it was National Donut day and I didn't get any donuts,  lol, so he got me some today :) now we are just chilling,  exhausted.  I don't think I could have handled one more store today.