Some part of me thinks I must be crazy for moving full steam ahead with the beginnings of a jewelry business. The last time I tuned in to CNN while sitting at the airport in Madison, WI (another story for another entry), there was the lovely Kyra Phillips pouring out the latest facts and figures of this recession we are in - or are we coming out of it...who knows anymore? I give her points for donning her pearly whites and trying to appear positive while the words "...unemployment at 9.5%" slid through her teeth. I need a small business loan like I need to do my neglected laundry, which is to say, pretty badly.
After toiling away for the last several years, I now have a rep in my corner who has already gotten me two new accounts in Houston, with a third in production as I write this. I'm not even sure if starting a blog about me as a designer, mother, baby mama, part-time teacher, full-time starving artist is the right thing to do as I will surely stick my foot in my mouth at some point, but I figure what the heck. After discussing all kinds of guerilla marketing tactics with my baby daddy, Sean, I felt inspired to write a few unpoetic lines about my trials and tribulations as a budding jewelry designer on the verge of something. What exactly that something is, I don't know yet. Starting this blog was free so that's at least one thing I don't need a to include as an expense in my business plan.
I decided to go ahead and include the link to my website, though it is in progress and just has a parked page advertising my first trunk show (I will also save the telling of that event for another post). It has been in progress for quite sometime. I think this year will mark its fifth or sixth anniversary of being "in progress". It's tough being your own product designer, graphic designer and marketing director.
