Showing posts with label new day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new day. Show all posts

Monday, March 11, 2013

Walk into the Mist

Things are changing for Fibers Studio! So many plans and starting a brick and mortar shop hopefully this year is at the forefront of this journey. I'm very excited, but at the same time all this change makes me a little nervous. Like the unknown of cost and having to estimate everything out for the business plan. I am literally walking into the mist!



I came up with this little phase while having coffee with my dear and talented friend. I was waiting on her and there was a wall where I could play with words. Interesting how I picked these words isn't it?

Seriously though, a light hearted seriously, I am ready for this change. Like I have written so many times before, this journey has been taking time because I couldn't just jump and change all the sudden everything in my career and home life. I had to take small steps to get there making slower transitions and really thinking everything through. I've mostly been a quick transition gal. This is a new pace for me! I've made loads of mistakes also, but that's good because I need to and I don't mind them. It's how things are and I can't make everything perfect. Plus, I don't want to. I am accepting of mistakes.

I do though want to bring my love of art and why I do what I do to my community. I want people to come together to create for a cause that needs it or simply create for themselves. I want to teach and run a shop that reaches different age levels and interests. I've been coming up with several ideas and concepts the last few years. I need to do more research on loans, ask friends that have or have had shops what they recommend, and talk to the small business organizations out there that provide assistance for such adventures. That's the next step of my five year plan. I am on the 4th year and this is the year for the big jump. Wish me luck and if you have any advice please comment! What would you do? Really!



Sunday, January 1, 2012

Happy New Year, Plans and Excitement!!

Hello! Happy New Year to All! 

Its a new dawn, its a new day, its a new life for me
OH I'M FEELING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!

2011 was a fabulous year for Fibers Studio! Record sales along with record custom orders made it a great year for me!

I am so excited about 2012. I have been working through some ideas for new products and working on improving my old products. And determining which things I really will or wont make along the way. It's a learning process and I love it. Plus, I have developed a working production schedule that I hopefully will be a good step for me to keep my products in supply and so forth. Having a working schedule will also keep me moving forward with ideas and not just doing them when I want. Artists work, but they need the discipline of work also to make their work successful!

But really, what I want to say is I am trying to do more of what I LOVE. Leaving behind those things that drive me nuts and I don't enjoy. So with my new ideas and new production schedule I am hoping to achieve this.

Part of my new schedule is also posting more often so you know what I am doing! One other way to follow me is on facebook. I usually post more pictures of current products there also.

Like Nina Simone sings, "And this old world is a new world and a bold world for me..." Be BOLD! Do what you love and happiest wishes to you and yours in 2012!