Joy to you and Yours

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Fourth of July Decorating

The Fourth of July Holiday is quickly approaching and its time to get our patriotic spirit out and decorate the house. This holiday is all about parades, picnics and fireworks. So whether you are decorating a float or your backyard, check out Amazon for some great deals on decorations, like this Patriotic Decorating Kit.

$20 for steamers stars and mini flags! Its definitely worth it when you can reuse your decorations again next year! I hope everyone have a wonderful and safe Fourth of July!

Its Never too Late to Decorate for the Holidays

Miniature Alpine Cabin Winter Snow Village

Christmas Greetings

20" Peacock Feather Wreath

Six Green Ornaments With Snowflakes

It's Not Too Late to Custom Order

There are still a couple weeks left to get your custom orders in for holiday gifts. Just simply go to my shop: http://aniemancrochet.etsy.com, click on Request Custom Item and follow the prompts.

The only items that it is too late to custom are afghans and blankets. These items take a couple weeks to create and would not arrive by the holiday. 


All other items are available including: coasters, scarves, potholders, pillows, baby blankets, tiny cakes and more.

Feel free to send me a convo about any question and concerns!


FREE SHIPPING applies to all custom orders as well!!!

Great Mikasa Discounts!

Hello everyone,


Here are some great discounts from Mikasa only available by following these links. They have some great gifts for christmas and weddings!


Receive a 10% discount on orders over $50



Shop Early and Save an additional 20% on Mikasa's Holiday Collections



Have a Wonderful Day!
Ali

Closing Shop for the Holidays

I had been debating whether or not to close up shop for the days that I will be out of town for the Holidays. I have decided that I will close my Etsy Shop for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at least. I may leave it closed for the following weekend depending on what activities pop up in those day. So far nothing is scheduled that would keep me from being able to assist my customers and fill orders. I will post a reopening date on my blog as soon as I decide on one.

Tonight is your last chance to buy anything before my vacation. I will not be able to ship anything anyways until the Friday after Christmas though.

I hope everyone has a wonderful, safe and joyous Christmas!

Getting Ready for the New Year

After everything that has happened over the past few days and months I have decided to get serious about my crochet and design business. While I am looking for a new job I am going to be organizing myself in a way that I can pay off my loans and credit cards and start saving money in order to start my own business.

This will take me some time to achieve but with some persistence and a lot of organization I will achieve my goal. In the next week I plan to come up with a list of things that I will need to get done in order to make this vision possible.

I have already started by downloading a free version of Quick Books. I will be using this for all my book keeping now, personal and business. This way I can see everything I am spending and everything I owe. Starting from today I will be as organized as I should be in order to operate a business.

The next step is to do a full inventory of my Etsy Shop. I will be having a sale after Christmas to decrease this inventory and after the sale I will close my shop and have a full count of all items for 2009.

During this process I will have to look for a new job to support myself in the mean time. Quite honestly I am tired of looking for a job and am going to try to find something that may not be the most rewarding, but will pay the bills.

In the next couple days look for more post on my full list of things to complete, my business plan and hopefully my new job!

Happy Holidays Everyone!

It Has Been a Long Year

Over the past year and couple months a lot has happened in my life. Last August I graduated college, moved to Akron and started working at Dillard's. During my time at Dillard's I was searching for a better job with more money and /or possible in my field, interior design.

Along the way I had interviews with furniture stores like Ethan Allen, Arhaus and Value City but I did not have enough sales experience for them despite my training in design. I had an interview and was actually hired by an architect part time, but two days later he called me to let me know he had thought about it and decided he couldn't hire me because of money. He did not want to hire me and then have to let me go a month or two later because he could not afford me anymore.

My last opportunity was when I was offered a job as an administrative assistant at The Ohio College of Massotherapy. I had not had much experience in this position but I thought I could learn, as I consider myself a fast learner. Unfortunately my boss did not. After 30 days he decided to let me go. It came as a big shock to me. I thought I was starting to get a hang of things and that with 60 more day left in my probational period I could be very good at this job. But sadly i didn't get that chance.

So now I have some time on my hands. I have been wanting to work more on my crocheting but I cannot support myself on crocheting alone. I wish I could but this economy does not bode well for starting a business.

It is weird knowing that tomorrow is Monday and I will not be going to work nor will I be working the next day or the day after. I will have more time to get my Christmas presents wrapped and more time to spend with my family. I am thankful that I will have them this season but it is hard with the timing. If he had waited a couple weeks I could have at least started looking for a job when people are hiring. No one seems to be concentrating on hiring right now especially the week of Christmas. So now it is a waiting game until after the Holidays and everything gets back to business as usual.

Well I hope I have not completely ruined your holiday mood, but I needed to get some of this off my chest and blogging is a great way for me to do so.

I hope everyone is having a wonderful Holidays and a Happy New Year!