Beads…Beads…BEADS EVERYWHERE!!

Posted on August 7, 2007 
Filed Under Jewelry

I bet you’ve been wondering where I’ve been…Well I haven’t been sitting around eating bon bons, that’s for sure! I’ve been in bead heaven (and hell) lately! First I got some fantastic retail therapy by going shopping for beads to make jewelry. That was so much fun! I was like a kid in a candy store!! But then my shopping buzz was quickly killed. Before I could dive into jewelry heaven I was struck on the head with a blunt object called “reality”. As I looked at all the hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds of beads I realized I had to do INVENTORY…NOOOOOOO!!! Don’t I have “people” to do this? I just want to be a designer…I don’t want to dirty my hands with this kind of work! ;-) Oh well. So I began the very long process of making labels for each collection of beads, writing down all the description details, volume price, calculate unit price, and then start counting the beads that weren’t pre-counted. Let me tell you how much fun that is…122, 124, (distraction by a good song)… 126? or 128??…what number was I last on?? Damn! ((sigh)) 2, 4, 6, 8……372, 374. Whew! (and that was only one little tube of beads!) Yeah. Fantastically fun time. I’m still not done but I am very close. My next deliriously joyful task is entering all that into a database. Note to self: hire people to do bead inventory asap!!! ;-)

I have to admit that I couldn’t resist and just had to make a couple of fun, summery bracelets. Below are some pictures — proof that I have been doing SOMETHING! I’ll post more pictures as I make more items.

What else have I been doing? Well I filed a ton of important paperwork today, called the County Clerk three times and the Tennessee Department of Revenue twice to figure out if I had done all the necessary paperwork to change the company name…of course I didn’t because it’s so flippin’ confusing (because I got a different instructions every time I called)..let’s see…what else…made the bed and did some laundry…oh yeah…you’re totally jealous of me now, aren’t you??!! Well, welcome to the life of an entrepreneur! I still LOVE it though!! I hope everyone is doing well and I promise I’ll try to update the blog more frequently!

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  1. Beth on August 8th, 2007 11:17 am

    I was wondering what happened to you. Don’t you know that there are those of us out there living vicariously through you and NEED updates:-)

    And just for the record…my favorites are the Smoke crystal and Jet shell bracelets. Love Them…and miss you!

    Beth

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