Some fun facts.....

...for me, anyway.

Since I went all professional and shop-owner, about two and a half months ago, this has happened...

My very first sale was to my sister Bev and it was a complete fake sale. I sent her a "practice" PayPal invoice, for a sock monkey, which I priced at $35 (now they're $28), just to see if I'd gotten the whole premiere-account-merchant-services-send-an-invoice thing down pat.

She totally PAID the invoice, and she told me she was proud of me and this was my first offical show of support. LOL Bev, I owe you a sock monkey AND a Thumbelina doll to replace the one I completely destroyed when you were seven. I also love you, a lot.

I've sold fifty sets of burp cloths. Fifty. That's 150 burp cloths. For pete's sake. And here's what is ridiculous - I have a three month old baby in this house five days a week and I own TWO burp cloths. I'm telling you, the shoemaker's kids are barefoot.

I truly thought the sock monkey was a great idea. So I went bananas, so to speak, and bought every package of Red Heel socks Grand Junction had to offer AND went to the web site and ordered more and got down to monkey business.

I seriously don't remember when I've been so overwhelmed. I swear, sock monkey socks are just messy when you start cutting them - little brown bits of stuff everywhere and I swear, making sixteen of them all at once is the reason Zoloft and Prozac are enjoying such great sales right now. My personal choice is a careful combination of Zoloft and Ambien. You know. So I can sleep a lot and not care. (I'm kidding - I'm not taking drugs :-)

I've sold all my monkeys and have backorders.

I made one hundred and eight Santa stars and sold them in sets of three. I announced those less than forty-eight hours ago and I have three sets left.

I'll be making some more Santa stars and I think it's just cute to make Christmas ornaments when it's ninety degrees outside, while sipping a frozen margarita, don't you? I think for Christmas, I'll make fun-fur enhanced flip flops and sip hot chocolate. That should work.

I've also sold six blanket-bib-burp cloth sets and guess what? I ran out of ladybug dot fabric, got two orders, and with the help of my sister, all the way in Pennsylvania (I'm in Colorado) have more fabric on the way.

I tell you, this "little online shop thing" isn't so little.

Meantime, my life has had some ups and downs. Thankfully, I'm good at concentrating on the ups and praying about the downs, although I realize a couple of my recent posts may have put that into question. I was a little whiney.

Krissy had her cervical biopsy today. No fun. But she's OK and we expect lab results on Monday. Meantime her doctor encouraged her to take tomorrow off because she really is having some pretty horrible cramps, but she said no, her office needs her tomorrow and her exact words to me, her mother, who said this, oh maybe a thousand times when she was growing up, were:

"Sometimes you just have to get over yourself and get on with it."

OK. I've made some mistakes in my life. But somehow, I stumbled around and raised one heck of a great daughter. The other one is pretty great too. :-)

So. I thought I was retired and life told me, you fool, get over yourself and get busy.

So I did.

To be honest, I'm not sure I really thought about what I'd be doing at this stage of my life. I can tell you, I never thought I'd be running a little business out of my home. I suspect if I weren't, I'd be bored beyond tears.

The alternative makes me cringe. I could be getting up and going outside my home, to a job I dislike, and my new grandchild would be in daycare. Good grief. I am sooo blessed that I can do this in my home and be here for my daughter and my grandchildren.

One thing's for sure - I can't remember the last time I was bored. LOL