I realized today that it had been a month since I had published an update. It has been a busy month, mostly behind the scenes craziness! My Dear Hubby got the front steps rebuilt on the Lavender Cottage, yeah!!! Unfortunately we now have to wait for the rain to stop long enough for the wood to dry, before we can paint it. We still have so much to do on this project, but I’m excited to have made one small step in the right direction!. Ok that wasn’t my step, it was Frank’s, but I count it as a win either way!
On other projects, we now have a pathway down the middle of the greenhouse!! Ok, yes, it is almost covered in grass, but it is there nonetheless! It has rained a lot this month, and hubby was lucky to have a day off last week, to mow, weed eating will have to wait for another break in the weather!
And part of the fence that will hold our perennial cut flower garden is underway (another hubby project), and you might wonder……what has Mrs. Flamingo been doing this month. Well, not a whole lot outside, but, I now have a makeshift office area in the downstairs of our house, which is also within the range of our internet! Somehow I managed to eat up most of the data usage from our cell phone plan listening to videos from my wonderful business mentor, Jennifer Allwood this month, because my office and studio upstairs are not within range of our internet modem! Until my internet guru son, figures out how to increase the range, this is where I will be, working off of a plastic table, with light from a clip on light from my antiques booth, I’ve learned to improvise!
Speaking of Jennifer, one of the most exciting things that I’ve done lately is joining her private facebook group, the Inner Circle. If you haven’t met her, and have a creative business, check out her podcasts and facebook page The Magic Brush. Her approach to teaching women (and men) about how to launch and sustain an online business presence, is the most nurturing, encouraging, honest, and helpful business information, that I have found. There are no big words, there is no big hype, just simple, clear, useful information delivered in a format that is easy to understand and to accomplish (even for a women over 50!)! She has a God given talent for making her whole audience feel at ease, and she has created a group where members share freely and openly about both business problems and solutions. I can’t imagine a better business mentor to take creative people through the steps from their ideas to a fully functioning and productive business, than Jennifer Allwood. I am thankful from the bottom of my heart to have found such a wonderful business mentor, and look forward to learning much more from her in the future. I’ve recently signed up for her Mastermind convention in Kansas City, and I am so looking forward to attending, and to meeting some of the other people in our Inner Circle group.
So that just about sums up the accomplishments for this month. I’m hoping to get our new product lines loaded into the shopping cart in the near future! This web page is a lot of trial and error, but I’m learning! So for the beginning of July on the balmy gulf coast! Happy Crafting and Gardening!