Eeesh.

I can't believe how much I am wanting to get back into CTMH.  I mean I was seriously pissed at the company when I left.  I guess I got off on the wrong foot by thinking that I would get a 50% commission since that's what a friend told me that's what Mary Kay's commission was.  I was thinking 'wow, stamps are almost $25 a set...that's about $12 a sale.'  Um, wrong.  The commission was 22%.  Tax was 8.75 in the city, shipping here was 6+%.  That's a commission of about 7%.  Not alot of incentive to push the products.

Ah but anyway.  There were other things too.  But the truth is...the clear stamps were awesome.  Light years ahead of rubber stamps.  A recent foray to a Stampin' Up workshop reiterated that to me.

So here I am, planning, researching, and 'pinning' ideas for workshops.  And here's something.  In my researching, I looked back through my past posts labeled CTMH.  I had some kinda neat workshops.  I wish I could have had more customers who wanted to buy the products.

I am thinking I will do things differently this time around.  I am going to do smaller workshops--meaning less projects per session.  I am also going to try to be more of a seller.  My partner in crime (my school mom BFF) is a graphic designer and she is fully on board.  I have appointed her my marketing director!  Also I want to be able to do workshops here at the house.  This will make it easier on my schedule.

I am getting excited about it.  I have quite a long list of things that need to be done first.  I have to organize several areas of the house.  My first project is the girls' room--just because it is a hot mess in there.  Next up the office/scrapbook room.  Okay truth be told that is even a hotter mess, but I can't focus on that stuff until I have the girls set up.

I almost forgot the other thing.  I am thinking about opening or starting up my other blog.  I have another blog that I started LONG ago, but never posted in.  I had originally thought it would be a place to sell handmade products by the women in my family, but etsy kinda took off and really that's the only place people would go to by handmade stuff so I decided to just hold off on that idea.  I also thought of doing some fictional writing there, but I didn't do that either.  ANYWAY.  My point is if I use this other blog exclusively for CTMH I can link it to FB or Pinterest without worrying about all the personal stuff that is in THIS blog.  

Alright now I'm just babbling.  Off to search the internet.