Found out today that I have been accepted into a NEIS program with my business proposal for The Sewing Lounge.
Start on the 28th July...feel very lucky!!
I also today registered for the life in style trade show. I am starting to feel as if things are moving...
Ballarat is arctic at the moment but I feel cosy and warm as the rain hits the window pane..
back to my kniting on the couch and dare I say it..Law and Order.
Friday, July 10, 2009
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Yeah, my enrolment forms for the NEIS program have arrived finally. I am hoping to start a cert v1 in small business management. I have been making lots of things... cushions.. knitted broches and knitted handbags...and somewhere along the line i converted a dingy computer room in my home into a " sewing lounge" so I could have a go at starting knitting and sewing classes from home. All sounds like it is falling into place yet at this point in time I seem to be spending my money and not making anything yet.
I have even wandered in to a few shops that I think may be interested in my broches however it seems that with the 100% markups i can't make much given the time I have put into making them. I have been lucky so far as I have had positive feedback and suggestions. My latest one ( although it has been said to me before) is to get my things together and sell them at a market...
All these ideas are swimming in my head and I need to make a start...
I am off to Melbourne on the weekend and am going to pop into Thread Den with a few pieces and see what the feedback is. I also am going to the Makers Market on Sunday at the Abbotsford Convent to have a peek as I've never been there.
Its all good stuff and I am learning that an artist has to have thick skin, be patient and keep creating at all costs...it will happen!!! So much to learn!!
Bye for now to my friends who happen to stumble on this blog!!
I have even wandered in to a few shops that I think may be interested in my broches however it seems that with the 100% markups i can't make much given the time I have put into making them. I have been lucky so far as I have had positive feedback and suggestions. My latest one ( although it has been said to me before) is to get my things together and sell them at a market...
All these ideas are swimming in my head and I need to make a start...
I am off to Melbourne on the weekend and am going to pop into Thread Den with a few pieces and see what the feedback is. I also am going to the Makers Market on Sunday at the Abbotsford Convent to have a peek as I've never been there.
Its all good stuff and I am learning that an artist has to have thick skin, be patient and keep creating at all costs...it will happen!!! So much to learn!!
Bye for now to my friends who happen to stumble on this blog!!
Monday, July 6, 2009
Hi everybody, this is my first blog to introduce The Sewing Lounge.
I want to write about how it all began..as a dream..
One day I lost my job..the business decided to close out of the blue!! I was out of work, a single Mum with three boys and on a pension. I knew I didn't want to go back to teaching and I knew the time had come to JUST DO IT!!
BUT HOW?
I have always had little fantasies of having my own small business doing something i am passionate about..creating, knitting, sewing,crotchet..all the things I had taken to so naturally as a little girl, were somehow still in my life today..maybe I was meant to do something with these passions. The idea was starting to formulate.
I was scared ..will I do it...I was on mission now..no more dreams I was sick of dreaming I wanted to make it my reality!!
My first step was to mention my ideas to someone I trusted..Margie..my dear friend Margie..I knew she wouldn't laugh or scoff..she was my support and inspiration.
Margie loved the concept at this gave me the initial confidence to start thinking about my next baby step.
I had put my big toe over the line and I was not going to turn back again this time.
................................ to be continued .........................................
Love Sue
I want to write about how it all began..as a dream..
One day I lost my job..the business decided to close out of the blue!! I was out of work, a single Mum with three boys and on a pension. I knew I didn't want to go back to teaching and I knew the time had come to JUST DO IT!!
BUT HOW?
I have always had little fantasies of having my own small business doing something i am passionate about..creating, knitting, sewing,crotchet..all the things I had taken to so naturally as a little girl, were somehow still in my life today..maybe I was meant to do something with these passions. The idea was starting to formulate.
I was scared ..will I do it...I was on mission now..no more dreams I was sick of dreaming I wanted to make it my reality!!
My first step was to mention my ideas to someone I trusted..Margie..my dear friend Margie..I knew she wouldn't laugh or scoff..she was my support and inspiration.
Margie loved the concept at this gave me the initial confidence to start thinking about my next baby step.
I had put my big toe over the line and I was not going to turn back again this time.
................................ to be continued .........................................
Love Sue
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