October is...
This week...
Here is the theme/challenge:
Tell about the moment you decided to turn your hobby into your business, and if you have not opened your "doors" yet, what is stopping you?
{Time? Resources? Fear?}
A Little Piece of Me
The Blog... Started on August 14, 2011
The Blog... Started on August 14, 2011
I am a stay at home mom and have stumbled onto some great blogs. Two of the first and very inspiring to me... Little Miss Momma, and Momma Go Round. I would read get excited when a new post was up because I could not wait to hear what they had to say about their life. The were real, honest, made mistakes, and it was okay. I was encouraged by them and how relatable they were.
Recently I came across another blog, Miss Mommy. The first post I read on her blog was about a toddler meltdown while out shopping. I could relate to that so well, I remember what I wrote to her. From that moment, I would stalk read all her posts and the more I read the more I felt like she was relatable to me and my life in various struggles.
I told Nicole, from Miss Mommy that I was inspired by Ashley, from Little Miss Momma, and Nina from Momma Go Round and had been thinking of starting my own blog. I've been addicted to facebook for the 2 years I've been using the social network and I'm always sharing different heart thoughts, emotional updates and other things that I don't think people care to hear on facebook. I mean, there are those things being circulated about "I don't care about your farm, mafia, kids pictures.... etc...." so I figured I needed another outlet for those who want to hear what I have to say to get my thoughts someplace. so with a little reply back from Nicole telling me I should go for it... I did! I mean, I've had my blogger account for a long time, just never used it. I have 6 kids and I had trouble enough trying to name them... now I gotta come up with a name for my blog?! Yikes! I had no idea what it should be. But that day I slapped something together and published it. I have loved it ever since.
A Little Piece of Me
A Little Piece of Me
The Etsy shop:: Opened October 2, 2011
This part was easy. I have been creating things for as long as I can remember. My mother is an excellent artist, sewer, crafter, baker, plumber, landscaper, maintenance, well... you get the idea. Yes, I am serious. She does it all.
So I have sold my creations before but not as a business. When I saw my fellow bloggers opening up their etsy shops I finally gave it serious thought. I already have stuff I could list that has been just sitting around the house so that part wasn't hard at all.
This is all new to me. Previous to this I worked as a File Clerk for a Real Estate Owner/Management Company, started and failed my Realtor-Associate Career, and been a stay-at-home mom. I have been searching for so long for something that would suit me. I finally feel like this is what I should be doing. Now, If I could only make some money doing it, everything would be perfect! =)
How about you? Do you have a Hobby that you turned into a Business? If so, what was your moment? If not, what's stopping you?
This is all new to me. Previous to this I worked as a File Clerk for a Real Estate Owner/Management Company, started and failed my Realtor-Associate Career, and been a stay-at-home mom. I have been searching for so long for something that would suit me. I finally feel like this is what I should be doing. Now, If I could only make some money doing it, everything would be perfect! =)
How about you? Do you have a Hobby that you turned into a Business? If so, what was your moment? If not, what's stopping you?
All my heart…
Salena
