Lifes Like That

Many of you may not be aware of this, but I am an avid coin collector. I have been collecting special coins for many years. Matter of fact when my father in law heard about my collection, he turned over his own collection to me to add to my collection (shhhh…. don’t tell my sister in laws). Well I started going through my collection to see what I have and what I need. I was amazed at the amount of gold coins that I have collected over the years. I really didn’t think I had as much as I do. But as all collectors know, you can never have to many. So I plan on collecting them for years to come. Hopefully I’ll find some more rare ones that I don’t currently own.

Well I have once again kick started my home crafting business. Yesterday I decided to get out all my jewelry supplies and once again started my hand crafted jewelry. Once I get a few sets of jewelry made, I plan on taking pictures and updating my craft website. Once I get this started up again I plan on buying some promo keychains to hand out to all my family and friends advertising my business. Since I have quiet a bit of extra time on my hands now, I think I can finally make a go out of this. Once I get the ball rolling, I’ll be sure to pop in here and give you all an update.

With my hobbies and crafts, I kind of go in spurts. I will do one type of craft for a while, then get bored and then move on to something else. Well, I got bored again, so I started looking for a different type of craft to do for a while. Well, I did find a different one. Over the weekend I started looking at what it would take to start making homemade first communion invitations, and other types of invitations. It actually didn’t look really hard. But, it will cost a little bit of money to get started. But I have decided that I’m going to try my hand at it. So over the next few weeks, I’m going to start to stock up on supplies (don’t tell my husband please) and then see what type of invitations I can come up with. Wish me luck!

I am so impressed with myself. Earlier today I spent a couple hours making jewelry. I haven’t done that in a very long time. Every time I went to make the jewelry something else would always come up. So I decided that this time I wouldn’t let anything get in my way. I created two matching sets of earrings, bracelets and necklaces. Hopefully this won’t be a one time only deal and I will be able to make more creations in the very near future. Only time will tell I guess.

If you are a regular reader of this blog, then you are well aware of the fact that one of my favorite hobbies is making crafts. In fact, I make so many that I have decided to create a small home crafting business to try to earn a little income off my creations. They don’t look like Oscar de la Renta products mind ya, but I try to do my best work and have been told that my work is quite nice. But for some reason I haven’t been able to sell a whole lot.

Yes, I have tried the Etsy store and I have even set up a blog which was designed just to try to sell my products. Since these efforts haven’t really paid off, I have decided that I need to go in a different direction. So in the very near future you will see a change in my “homemade crafts” link. Instead of having the address to my Etsy site listed or even the blog url listed, I have decided to take some fresh new pictures and upload them onto that link. I will eventually list the prices and the contact information as well. Hopefully this change will enable me to attract more buyers and maybe the year 2009 will be the year I get my home crafting business up and running.

Well I guess it’s official. My little home business of trying to sell crafts really hasn’t worked out all that well. I guess that’s why people call what we do a hobby and not a job. But don’t worry, I’m not really upset about it. I’ll still continue to do what I love and if I sell any then that’s just great. But if I don’t, that’s OK too. It just takes some of the stress off from continuously trying to sell things. Now I can go back to just making crafts for the pure pleasure of it. I would have loved to make a go out of it, but…it’s not the end of the world if I don’t. So I think I’m going to put off trying to get a home business up and running and just enjoy the time I have to create crafts. You never know what the future may hold so maybe I’ll try it again sometime in the future.

Normally when I pick something to read it will be a historical romance novel of some sort. Last night I wanted something different to read, so I picked out a New York City travel magazine at the store. I have to say I was highly impressed with the articles that I read in it. I enjoyed the magazine so much that before I went to bed I had read this magazine from cover to cover. Normally I don’t really enjoy magazines, but this one surprised me. I enjoyed all the pictures and the articles and when the new issue comes out, I will definitely be making another purchase. But since my magazine has been read, I guess I’ll go find a novel to read tonight.

I am an avid collector of many things. I collect coins, collector spoons, pigs, cows and jewelry. Yesterday I had the opportunity to add to my jewelry collection. I was at a jewelry store and seen that they had new pocket watches on sale. So I bought two. One for each on my sons when I finally do decide to pass down my collections. Most of my jewelry collection consists of stuff for my daughter so for me to be able to grab a couple of watches for the boys made me feel good. At least when they start getting the items from me, there will be a little bit of things for everyone.

When I first started making jewelry, I had no problems finding the little holes in the beads to run the wires through. But it seems like the more jewelry I make, the harder it is to see the tiny holes in the beads. After an extremely frustrating weekend of trying to bead, but not being able to see them properly, I have decided that I really need to get some magnifying glasses to be able to continue with this work. It would be an awful shame if I had to give up this craft that I have just started getting into and loving it. So hopefully with the help of a magnifier, I can still continue this craft.

I have a very strange hobby. When I get bored I have a tendency to spend a bit of time on different real estate sites. I love to look at different areas all around the globe and compare the different prices of their houses and real estate properties to my local areas. One area that I have discovered that has similar prices to my area is in the real estate Branson location. If I lived close to that area I would be able to purchase property that is quite similar to the property that is available in my area. This is good to know if I ever decide to move to Branson.