I know you would never guess by how infrequently I've been doing it, but I really do enjoy blogging. I've mentioned before that I love to write, and now that my boutique is over, maybe I'll have a little more time to do it!
Speaking of the boutique, it is finally over. It was almost exactly three months from when I first had the idea until we pulled it off, but we did it. And in my estimations it was a success. My partner Jen (the J of "PJ's Cozy Creations") isn't so sure yet because we are still totally up how much we made after expenses. But for me, it has been so great to have this creative outlet. I was in such a funk for about a month before we started this project and now I feel like I have accomplished something. And all of a sudden it hit me today that people actually pay me to do something I love!! How amazing is that!
And several customers have placed special orders with us so we still have some creating left to do. Just today, a wonderful woman in our ward asked us about putting together three scrapbooks for each of her daughters. Wow!
The hardest part has been pricing things though. We live in a humble area of town, not poor, but most of the people in this area either work for the church or work for the government. (Lot's of police officers, fire fighters and teachers). So they don't have a lot of money to spend on extra things like home decor. We didn't want to price our stuff so high that no one could buy it, while still making enough to make it worth while. Several people told us they thought our stuff was very reasonably priced so I feel a like we hit it pretty close to right, maybe a little low but we decided we'd rather not have tons of stuff left at the end than stuck with a lot of stuff.
But we do still have quite a bit. So if you are on our Christmas list this year, you know what you can be expecting from us!
Now I need to get back to my life as a mom and homemaker. A.J. has been so ready to have this behind us. As a reward, we are going to Hollywood Connection tomorrow afternoon with Jen and her kids and then taking our families out to dinner at Godfather's Pizza.
