You make this all go away/I just want something I can never have...

[jedusor]

~"Something I Can Never Have" by Nine Inch Nails

I just ran across a woman selling jewelry in the campus cafeteria. Apparently you can do that if you're sponsored by a Penn Valley club and give them 10-15% of your earnings. I excitedly offered to collaborate with her, helping her make the jewelry, and she suggested I gather materials this summer and start on my own in the fall. Which is an excellent idea, and I'd love to do it.

Know what would have really made sense? I know this girl called Mollie in the homeschool group. She used to be a friend of mine, and she inherited a bunch of jewelry-making stuff, including a billion beads, from (I think) her grandmother. And she makes some really cool stuff; I'm actually wearing a necklace she made for me for my last birthday. But she doesn't have a place to sell the stuff she makes. What would have made a lot of sense would be if I talked to the people at the Advocates for Better Government group, to which I belong, gotten them to sponsor me, and then worked with Mollie to make and sell jewelry. That way, between us, we'd have the merchandise and the means to sell it. But? Mollie's mom is one of the people who thinks I'm a bloodthirsty child molester. Last time I saw Mollie, she wouldn't even make eye contact.

*sigh*

I might be able to do it anyway, though. Mom has some materials, and I can get more. The lady, Roxy, gave me some tips. Mom can help me learn the basics of beading (she used to do it a lot) and the rest is just creativity and hard work. I really hope this works out, because the money would be really helpful, and I really enjoy making things.

Comments

[mh75.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, do you have any crafts that you are already doing that you could sell? If so, I think it would make sense to build up a stock of these crafts to have available to sell. This doesn't rule out learning something like beading to make a product, but i think you will be more successful if you start a business from a good foundation of something you know well.

(It occurs to me that i have no idea what you do with your time. I can't see a way to sell icons, and i think my sense that your family has quilts comes entirely from Lorraine, but what about tye-died things, friendship bracelet type stuff, drawings??)

As a word of warning - i find that my crafts projects cost a lot in supplies, so you may not be able to net as much money as you think. Having professional looking products would help, i think. Perhaps tailoring your products to the school could help, too. You know - make things in school colors, or things that are meant for an event that you know will be happening.

Good luck!!

[all-ephemera.livejournal.com]

Ahhh... why would someone think you're a blood-thirsty child molester?

what er wrote

[cfb4629.livejournal.com]

zel, that paragraph that erica wrote wasnt comedy, it was entirel serious, and i think an attempt to express real life feelings.

[rains-nothing.livejournal.com]

i can bead semi well and have some beading crap somewhere. i can bring it (assumeing i can find it) when i see ya.

this whole "blood thristy child molester" thing makes me want to slap alot of people.

Re: what er wrote

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Oh. Sorry, I have nothing against her writing; she's actually not bad. It's just that it's very emo, and I find it difficult to take emo writing seriously. If she's hurt by my amusement, please tell her I apologize.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it *rolls eyes*

Haha, your icon reminds me of something. At Blair's sweet sixteen party that I went to in New York a couple of weeks ago, they played that song about Barbies (you know, I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie wo-o-orld...) and I crawled under a table, curled up with my hands over my ears and muttered "happy thoughts happy thoughts happy thoughts happy thoughts" until it was finished.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Oh god, you haven't heard about that? I used to belong to this homeschool group called LEARN. To make a long, long story short, some stuff happened that some people didn't like and they started spreading rumors about me- among them, that I bite people because I like the taste of blood, am a "known sexual predator" and gave pornography of myself to children that I babysit. None of which, needless to say, is true in any way. It totally screwed up my life, and alienated a lot of people that I thought were my friends. If you want to know the whole story, check my journal archives around the end of August.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, do you have any crafts that you are already doing that you could sell?

I wish I did, but no. I have made a couple of quilts, but I'm not good enough at it to sell them. I do have a lot of fabric; maybe I could make pillows or something? I dunno.

As a word of warning - i find that my crafts projects cost a lot in supplies, so you may not be able to net as much money as you think.

The main reason I'm considering this is that my mom already has a lot of supplies. She's been too busy to do any beading in the past few years, and they've just been gathering dust.

Good luck!!

Thanks! We're looking forward to seeing you Saturday!

[(Anonymous)]

just a reminder: when you post comments on people's public ljs or xangas, your comment is then public. if you're going to say something that may irk someone who can read what you're saying, 1) think about who it is you're irking and 2) reconsider. just for the sake of general decency.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

I already said I'm sorry, okay? Do you want me to apologize directly to her, or what?

[rains-nothing.livejournal.com]

"its so fantastic, my boobs are plastic!"

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

It doesn't help that the first time I heard it, my twenty-year-old and and sixteen-year-old uncle were singing along. It scarred me for life.