Organize what? Blog Carnival

Well I saw the blog carnival I decided to share about how I am organizing my business for paying taxes? I laughed when I saw the subject because I am so horrible with organizing my business stuff. Did you say ORGANIZE? Receipts and paper trails scattered. Is that considered as organized! Oh Boy! Every year I say I have got to do better and actually I do. I don't make enough money to pay a CPA or any other resource I would have to pay to organize anything. This business is still at the beginning stages for me and since the economy is horrible I am confident I had a loss this year. So for me, I do my own organizing like on April 14th (yes I usually file an extension). I gather all of my stuff, put it in a spreadsheet and PRAY I didn't miss anything! Then I give it to my Tax guy to file it for me ( he charges me a nominal fee).

Disclaimer: If a tax auditor is reading or reviewing this data note that all information in this blog is for entertainment purposes only! LOL!

I Know I have been MIA - Miss you

Hi Guys! I know I have been MIA lately. My grand baby has Pneumonia and a double ear infection (yes the cutie pie in the videos). Plus I have just been brain dead and really have taken a sabbatical trying to assess what I am doing here and how I can meet my goals and needs. Blogging is great and talking on the forums is great but I haven't sold over $100 in the past 6 months online. And fact is $70 of that was from one sale during the Christmas Holidays with the other portion being from my Infinitiessupplies shop. So I had to stop, consider my options and say what am I doing and do I need to keep moving in this direction. With the post from RoseworksJewelry about the Bonanzle venue. I have been playing with it a bit knowing that Etsy has far too many jewelry sellers and just have not been able to compete.

I know the economy is in a rough place right now so was also thinking hey maybe I should destash most of my stuff cuz I need the money with no job and then just start fresh when things are more financially stable. Then I had an EPIPHONY MOMENT and thought Hey why not try doing some traveling trunk shows? I send my jewelry with a friend to work or home, they get orders and customer names and I am not spreading myself thin trying to travel to and fro to make sales. I did my first traveling trunk show with my friend Patti who took it to her school and she made $60 bucks. Hey better than nothing. I went to a close friends house this weekend to have her take it to her job and she bought $60 worth on the spot, kept it all and took it to work with her today and so far has about $30 in sales. Hey that aint too bad. So all that said, I am just playing around with different venues and ideas and trying to figure out what I am doing and can do to bring in ACTUAL income!

Know that I miss all of my Etsyblogger team members and my Pluggers United Team members and hope to be back online full force soon!

Huggles to all of you!

Pluggers United - 5th Edition

A great team that is ALL about and for artisans who promote and Pay it Forward to other artisans. Want to be part of this awesome team that's all about supporting and promoting each other? Then come on and check out Pluggers United!

Here are a few items from some of our team members! Buy an item from any of these shops and get free shipping off of your purchase in my shop

Just convo me that you purchased an once I confirm with seller you will have that credit for when you are ready to shop with Unique Commodities!

Mercyming

CrowHavenFarm

Pigatopia

What in the world?!?!

Ok I am a little late sharing this but today has been a crazy day! It was a crazy week last week with a speeding ticket on Monday (no job) and a car accident on Wed (my fault) and then my son gets a ticket on Saturday night and then to top it off Sunday I lose my dog on keys (yes the whole set)! I can’t find them ANYWYERE - WHAT IN THE WORLD?! I have been borrowing a friend’s car as my new car keys (to the tune of $48) per BMW dealership won't be delivered until Thursday! Go figure!

Well to make things so much better, I found $45 that I hid from myself while looking for my keys so that paid for the replacement car key at least! And what is just as exciting is on Blockhead Rod's radio show last night I won TWO prizes with the most exciting prize being 12 months of free advertisement for a whole year on Blockheadradio’s new website AND I won a WOOT button from the King Plugger Lugger. It was hilarious to see Agoodwitchtoo teasing everyone in the chat room by giving false alarms for the key to call in to win! When Huckleberry Arts finally posted the key phrase to call, I was on it! I was also encouraged that Fluttering Designs shared about my win on her blog! I absolutely love the Pluggers United Team for their “Pay it Forward” and helping hands spirit!

I am most grateful that in spite of all the challenges of the past few weeks, I have undoubtedly received some great kisses!

Pluggers United - 4th Edition

A great team that is ALL about and for artisans who promote and Pay it Forward to other artisans. Want to be part of this awesome team that's all about supporting and promoting each other? Then come on and check out Pluggers United!

Here are a few items from some of our team members! Buy an item from any of these shops and get 20% off of your purchase in my shop

Just convo me that you purchased an once I confirm with seller you will have that credit for when you are ready to shop with Unique Commodities!

PurelyPainting

Thyme2dream

PTFMGraphicssShop

Pluggers United Treasury by PTFMGraphicsShop

Thank you PTFMGraphisShop for the treasury feature of both my Unique Commodities and Infinity Supplies shop! Pluggers United Rocks!

Pluggers United - 3rd Edition

A great team that is ALL about and for artisans who promote and Pay it Forward to other artisans. Want to be part of this awesome team that's all about supporting and promoting each other? Then come on and check out Pluggers United!

Here are a few items from some of our team members! Buy an item from any of these shops and get 20% off of your purchase in my shop

Just convo me that you purchased and once I confirm with seller you will have that credit for when you are ready to shop with Unique Commodities!

RoseworksJewelry

TiltCreations

Sassalynne

Pluggers United - 2nd Edition

A great team that is ALL about and for artisans who promote and Pay it Forward to other artisans. Want to be part of this awesome team that's all about supporting and promoting each other? Then come on and check out Pluggers United!

Here are a few items from some of our team members! Buy an item from any of these shops and get 20% off of your purchase in my shop

Just convo me that you purchased and once I confirm with seller you will have that credit for when you are ready to shop with Unique Commodities!

TheChainMailleLady

SewHappyDesigns

Flutttering Designs

Pluggers United in the house!

A great team that is ALL about and for artisans who promote and Pay it Forward to other artisans. Want to be part of this awesome team that's all about supporting and promoting each other? Then come on and check out Pluggers United!

Here are a few items from some of our team members! Buy an item from any of these shops and get 20% off of your purchase in my shop! Just convo me that you purchased and once I confirm with seller you will have that credit for when you are ready to shop with Unique Commodities!

Dorsethillbeads

CeeJaysBags

DogonWear (Dog Leash Holder)

Quote for the day!

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

~Denis Watley~

Check out my blog at Indiscriminate Musings

Back down memory Lane!

Well I kept thinking what am I going to blog about today! I felt so aimless today! I guess that is what unemployment will do for you. I have surfed the net for the past hour and just have been in a complete fog! I started looking through my pictures and came across this high school graduation pic from my year book! So here is to going back down memory lane!

Unique Commodities

Pluggers United Team - Come Join us

Block Head Rod and group have gone and done it again! They have figured out just one more way to promote and encourage Artisans helping other Artisans! We are starting a new Etsy team called Pluggers United team. Pluggers United is all about Artisan’s supporting other Artisan’s! Membership is easy. Just go to the team Yahoo group.

In the group you can share ideas, links, sales, etc. This group is open to everybody that sells on Etsy. It will be a friendly group and moderators will see to that. Being a part of the Yahoo group is a requirement for joining the team. We discuss ways to promote, what the market is doing, shameless plugs, blogging, cross promotions, and more.

What will Pluggers United do as a team?

• Monthly radio show for just the team.

• Sharing ideas on promotions.

• Team sales

• Charity work

• Sell another team members listing :) Yep, you will try and get a sale for another team member.

• As a team member you must do 1 blog post, if you have a blog, about another team member and post it in the Yahoo Group with a link. Just think about it - If each one reaches one, just imagine how many sales we all can have. It is all about paying it forward.

As a team we will work together to add to this list. Come join our exciting new team!

PS.. Check out my new blog Random Musings