Purses

Wow, I am so amazed and grateful for how quickly my business is building up! I have several orders for Christmas, with a lot more promises for more. I have a facebook page for my business now too and I've sold a couple purses from there! I am loving making purses! Everytime I sew a purse or come up with a new design, it makes me so excited. I love picking the fabrics and putting it all together. I have so many ideas in my mind of what kinds of bags and purses I want to make and how I can improve on my designs.

I did a boutique a few weeks ago. It was my first one. I did okay, not as good as I hoped, but not too bad. Last week I did a craft fair at work and did pretty well there. I had a great time meeting with people, sold some purses and took a few orders. There is a craft fair in my hometown in a couple of weeks and I'm working really hard to be able to get up there for that. I haven't been home in over a year and I think it will be a lot of fun to see people and get my product seen up there.

I'm hoping my business does well enough that when I retire, I will have that business to keep me going!

Car Wash

I hate not having internet on my computer. I have so many posts I need to make and I can't do it when I need to!

I had a benefit car wash a couple of weeks ago. It is for the Suicide Prevention walk I'm doing in December. I had a few people that were going to do the car wash with me, but were not able to so I was left really short handed. I put out a request for some help and some friends from work stepped in and really helped me out! I appreciated them so much, I can't even say!

One of the great things about fundraising is the people that I meet and the stories that I hear. I met a man who pulled up and said he didn't want his car washed, he just wanted to give us money because he lost his brother a month ago. Another man only wanted his windows washed and I got to talking to him. Turns out he was a veteran and was suffering from PTSD. His wife had left him and he had been through too many doctors to count before he finally found one that he felt was doing some good. I could tell he was struggling. We talked while I washed his windows and I was so grateful to be able to get to know this man who served our country. After I washed his windows, he opened his wallet and literally gave me his last dollar. He was teary eyed, jumped in his car and drove off. Another man came in and told me he lost his uncle a few years ago. He wasn't even able to go to the funeral because he was in basic training. He also lost his best friend back in July. This man was also a veteran. After doing two tours in Iraq and body recovery after Hurricane Katrina, he also had PTSD and his best friend that he lost had suffered from PTSD. He was very excited to hear about the walk and when he left, he left with a promise to sign up for the walk and recruit other walkers. I will never forget these men and I am so grateful to hear their stories. That is what this is about. For people to be able to share their stories without fear of being looked at funny or making others uncomfortable. Bring it out of the darkness...Out of the Darkness is the perfect name for this walk. Bringing it all out of the dark and into the light so people can heal. How can anyone heal in the dark?

The Funniest Thing Happened Today!

This morning I needed to take a run to the store, so while we were out, I decided to stop at Paradise Bakery for a little treat for all of us. We got our muffins and headed back out to the car. On our way we passed by a car that was a different make than ours, but it was the exact same color. My son and I continued walking to our car and my daughter stopped at the other car and tried to get in it! After I asked her what she was doing she realized she was trying to get into the wrong car and took off running!

We decided to eat our muffins in the car before I drove off. I'm not as talented at eating and driving as I used to be. So we were eating and chatting and enjoying ourselves. We were laughing at the guy that had just pulled in and was brushing his teeth as he was walking up to the bakery door, when I turned to my left to look out the window. What do I see? An elderly woman standing at my car door. It startled me! Good thing I turned my head because I'm blind in my left eye and don't see things peripherally very often. What startled me even more was she opened my door! I was thinking to myself, "What in the world is she doing?" Then it dawned on me, she was getting into the wrong car. When I looked at her she wasn't even looking at me or the car, she was looking off into the distance somewhere, probably at the guy brushing his teeth in the parking lot. I decided I better say something to her before she tried to sit in my lap so I said, "Hi." She jumped about a foot in the air, grabbed her chest and shouted, "Oh my gosh!!! Oh no, I'm at the wrong car! I'm so sorry!" I thought for sure she was going to have a heart attack! I even asked her if she was okay because she was so scared. She just kept saying, "Our cars are the same color, I'm so sorry!" I told her it was okay, my daughter tried to get into her car a few minutes ago so we were even! I looked at the car in front of us and it had three old ladies in it . They saw the whole thing happen and were laughing so hard! After the lady got in her car the kids and I just busted out laughing and my daughter told me to lock the door before someone else decided to open the door and try to get in!