Cash Stash

Since my friend has gotten me obsessed with knitting she's also gotten me on a website for knitters called Ravelry. I really enjoy it because not only is it a fabulous place to talk to knitters you can also find patterns both free and for sale, yarn for sale as well as having a nice way to organize your projects, share your progress and just about anything else you own relating to knitting!

Anyways I found a group on this site called Cash for Stash. The idea is you come up with a list of activities that you want to accomplish in your life and when you perform one of these activities you reward yourself with a bit of money to buy more yarn for your stash. I thought this was a fabulous idea not just for a yarn stash but for other things as well. So now I think I would like to start a fun stash. Money that I can use for all those fun things in life I don't usually let myself buy like things for my computer, something fabulous from Etsy, a new book, movie or CD, etc. I'd like to put up a counter on the blog to let you know how the fund is growing but haven't been able to figure that out quite yet. For now I'm using one of my countless cute notebooks (did I mention I'm a stationary junkie?) We'll see if I actually keep this up. When I try things like this they really only tend to last a few weeks before I forget about them. *shrug*

As to the activities I've started a small list and many of them have to do with my business, things like rewarding myself for taking photographs of my work, completing designs for a commission and making a sale on Etsy. I think this might be a great way to motivate myself in the future. What would you pay yourself to do?

Alive but Lazy.

Well that kind of describes me in regards to my computer lately. Now that I have a job I've kind of been avoiding my computer lately. Well been avoiding it since Easter anyways in favor of other activities. My best friend has bitten me with the knitting bug lately so when I'm at home I seem to simply been watching episodes of Supernatural or Ghost Whisperer and knitting up a storm. I've started and afghan and I'm a little obsessed.

On the business side of things I must admit that I've gotten very little done. Since the begining of the month I haven't done much on Etsy - I must admit the total lack of sales has made me loose most of my interest not to mention hope in making any money off of Etsy. Also since starting my new job I haven't been taking any opportunities to get into the studio. To be perfectly honest when I am in the studio I'm not all that inspired. For the moment though with getting used to my new job and my schedule for the next month is starting to look pretty darn full. I'm thinking I might take a bit of a break from the biz. I have a few commissions that I'm working on the design phase for but other than that I think I'm going to hold off for a while. Let my mind re-orient itself to my new way of life so I can figure out where things are going to fit. Is this a bad idea? I hope not. :)