start a home-based business

I’m not! See, it’s still on my list, so there!
I’m just putting it off for a couple of years. I need money. I need a job. A real one.
Sigh.
I’m looking for one right now. Not that my chances are so great, but.
Sigh.

I need income, soon. I’ve got six skirts. This is not going fast enough.
I want to do two things:
1. Get a part-time job, in something related. Maybe selling in a fabric store. I’d love to do that for a while.
2. Change direction a bit, start working on things I can make fast and quickly. Get to the point where I sell anything at all. Then later I can add the clothes.
I’ve been thinking: eco-chique shopping bags, with nice drawings on them; other types of simple bags, all with something to make them special and nice so people will want them; small hand bags for little girls, such that little girls would like; customised T-shirts, for which I will buy T-shirts and make some cute prints, applications, embroidery.
I should start thinking how to change my working priorities accordingly.

four skirts. No license. I guess I’m not up to my schedule.

Tips for modeling:
1. There are some items that you are sure to want, and to want very soon in the process, so don’t start without them. They are: mechanical pencil, eraser, big ruler and small ruler, Aristo triangle, red pen, scisors. Think ahead before you start because you probably also need either the compass, the measuring tape with the hole at one edge and/or the contour master. Have them all at your hand beofre starting, or you’ll be distracted by going to get them again and again.
2. Think about seam allowences before you start copying.
3. Name every line, every place marking and every piece, e.g. “Crown”, main part, size 8, non-elastic fabric, with zipper.

Tips for sewing:
Consider basting. Basting is good for you.

General tips:
Don’t make so many tests. One is enough, then select fabric and start. Even if I do throw away a couple of skirts at first, it’s a waste of time otherwise.

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finished the first item I intend to sell! Ha! Still not perfect, I know that; took far too long to complete, but I know exactly why, and how it’s going to take less next time. And it’s beautiful! Yes!
I need to:
1. Make another skirt, same size, longer lining. And try another, same size, with the other color fabric for lining, and the other way around.
2. Finish cutting out patterns for other sizes.
3. Finish my homework for Thursday.
4. Get my business registered, so if someone happens to walk in, see the skirt, and say: hey, nice skirt, I’ve jsut been looking for a present for my nice, a size 8, do you sell? I will be able to get money legally.

I was on an anxiety attack, but I managed. Will go and sew it now. If you’ll excuse me.

She said it was very pretty, and gave me some suggestiong on how to make it better. She’s so sweet, she has a way of making me believe I can do it. And she’s the only one who does that for me. So what, she knows better.
I started learning how to do trousers. I really like this.
Things I need to do, not by the order in which I’ll do them:
1. Buy materials. 12 meters of each of two different colors, 18 meters of lining, odds and ends (rubber bands, thread? buttons?)
2. Sew the same type of skirt in five different sizes, two different colors.
3. Design trousers, try them out on my daughter, hopefully this time not six different versions, buy fabric, make in sizes and colours.
4. Keep learning – shirts, dresses.
5. Model more skirts out of the ideas that are going through my head constantly. I should draw them, too, before I forget them.
6. Register so I can start selling.
This weekend I will draw. Sunday I will go shopping. Or not.

Tomorrow is cleaning, shopping, fianlly cleaning the car day. And I have a lesson in the morning, so homework.

1. Running.2. Breakfast, mail, shower.3. Work.4. Temporary Holiday Committee meeting at school (thus starting my way up the ladder to the permanent Holiday Comittee in which I aspire to be, and would probably have to step on a few bodies on my way there (not really)).5. Lunch with Nitsan if time permits.
6. Work (I shouldn’t rely on this item. I will probably hang with Nitsan until it’s time for)
7. Pick up Those Who Need to Be Picked Up.
8. More work at night.
But not tonight.
Have a good one.

with the pressure of “making it to the sale”, I know sometimes I will be working every night. But for now I don’t really have to, it’s just the guilt of not earning money yet that’s pushing me.
So, is it all right if I only work every other night, because I’m so tired and The Skirt will be finished tomorrow, I promise?
Please?