August 19th, 2008 at 2:54pm
I wanted to report back on how my dream weekend went. I am pleased to admit that I got to do everything on my list. We had a great Friday night with our best friends, with lots of cocktails, good food and even a fire in the fire pit in the back yard. We went for a long bike ride at the beach Saturday morning followed by a movie that night that I got to pick!! (I shameless admit I enjoyed every minute of Mama Mia) I didn’t get out of bed either morning until after 9. It was perfect. I did have to do some dishes and cooking. I knew I was really dreaming to get out of that, but my husband did go to the store with me and even helped put the groceries away. So the food didn’t exactly magically appear, but at least I had help.
Is it Friday yet I’m ready for another weekend!
Jill
August 18th, 2008 at 4:22pm
To day is a big day; we are moving on to the next step with Branddoozie! Our new marketing site is up and running, and the new application is uploading as I write this. This will take us out of beta and into the real world. We’ve been working on this for a few years, and I can’t even begin to express how relived and excited we are. It’s a day I thought would never arrive. Now It’s here and I’m ready to celebrate!!
So raise a glass up for me tonight-Cheers
August 15th, 2008 at 10:00am
Another workweek is coming to a close and I’m looking so forward to the weekend. Here is my list of what I hope I get to do this weekend
*Friday night cocktails (maybe a lot of them it’s been a long week) in my back yard with good friends
*Being able to sleeping in both Saturday and Sunday (I usually wake up early even when I get to sleep in, makes me so mad )
*A long bike ride at the beach with my husband
*Maybe dinner and a funny movie on Saturday night
*No dishes, No cooking, No house cleaning, No bills, No stress, and my fridge magically filled with food that I don’t have to go get (hey a girl can dream)
Jill
August 12th, 2008 at 9:11am
Selling to bridal stores my business model is a little different than most manufactures. I sell them samples that brides then come in and order off of. Often a sample will stay in a store for several years and I keep receiving faxed orders from those samples. You can image how trashed a headpiece and veil become being tried on over and over in a store, so one thing I always do for my stores is replace good selling samples for free. It helps the stores out to have a fresh piece to try on their brides and it helps me because the new ones start selling again much better. Everyone wins!
In this challenging economic times I think it is important to think about how we can help out our customers, because I believe it can in turn help us.
August 11th, 2008 at 9:04am
Is anybody noticing how fast Mondays come around: I feel like my head is spinning, and the weeks are flying by. We are working so hard right now that all the days are running together. I’m feeling like someone pushed fast forward on the TiVo of life, and I’m not sure how to push pause anymore.
August 8th, 2008 at 2:57pm
As I mentioned before my daughter kept beautiful journals, I guess it was her very artful way of blogging, she wrote down her feelings, added in her amazing artwork, and topped it off with things found (stickers, movie tickets, postcards, etc.) She spent hours working in her books, and now they are my special passageway into the life she lived.
Sitting here having trouble thinking of what to write about today, I picked up one of her journals and turned to a random page and saw she had written the following
“Just outside my wisdom
Are words that answer everything”
I decided there was nothing else to say
Jill
August 6th, 2008 at 11:30am
It’s a contest!
My friend Lynn is giving away a couple piggy banks over at After the Dust Settles. You can read the “rules” and post an entry by clicking this little link here : )
Good Luck!
August 6th, 2008 at 10:52am
I spent the whole day yesterday at my sewing machine. It’s been a long time sense I was home by myself all day long. Ever sense losing Ellese being alone is something I think I subconsciously avoid. It just leaves too much time for sadness, however I enjoyed yesterday. I blasted an old Joni Mitchell live album from 1974, called Miles of Aisles, (if you haven’t heard it before it’s awesome!!) and I worked away. I really needed to make a list like Lynn does each day on her blog, because I think I might of accomplished more, but all and all it was a good day.
Jill
August 1st, 2008 at 1:47pm
August 1st, I can’t believe it
July 31st, 2008 at 10:27am
I think everyone has different sourced for inspiration, that thing that gets your creative juices flowing. Music has always done that for me. Each of my lines through the years has been designed to a different sound track. I would listen to the same CD over and over while I was creating what I hoped would be what the brides wanted. Today a song played on my ipod and it took me back to a line I designed about 10 to 15 years ago. It made me miss the days when I got to design beautiful things. Right now most brides are only wearing veiling on a comb, or if they are wearing a headpiece, it’s an imported metal tiara. (Great for miss America, but not my favorite look for a bride) I’m becoming really board with what I’m making.
Listening to that song got my creative juices flowing again, and since Something New isn’t letting me take advantage of that, I will have to let them flow in a different direction. I’ll let you know where they go!
Jill Prettyman
