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• Career Conference 2012

  • March 31st, 2012
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  I am sad to report that this is the first time in my 8 1/2 career that I have had to miss Career Conference. Circumstances have prevented me from attending this year. On an up note, I am 6 months pregnant and suffering from a bad cold right now so traveling two hours to the event would have been quite uncomfortable anyway.

  In the meantime, it’s a new year and I’m still working on rebuilding my business. I have also started another business involving knitting and Etsy. My goal is to rebuild my business so that by this time next year I have the momentum I had built up in 2008 and 2009. So far, I have a vendor event lined up in April and my wonderful husband has been brainstorming other ideas with me.

  It has also donned on me that it has been about a year since my last post. I also aim to keep up with this blog more regularly as I become more consistent with my business.

• Career Conference 2011

  • March 29th, 2011
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  This weekend I attended my eighth annual Career Conference! Although I’ve been to several, this one stood out from others for a few reasons. First, I attended a conference away from my unit. About 6 months ago I moved to another state. I’m building a new life and I’m figuring out where and how my business fits my life now. Second, I spent the time with my new adopted unit and had a great time! Third, I was exposed to Directors and National Sales Directors that I typically don’t see. This was the first Career Conference I attended that my NSD or her SNSD was not also attending. My NSD was up in Columbus, OH. I love my NSD, but I got to see Stacy James for the first time and she was very inspiring in her own right. Finally, Continue Reading »

• In Need of a Little Nudge?

  • March 3rd, 2011
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  A few of us in my Mary Kay group here decided to do a self help project by reading this book and implementing its suggestions. I figure it can’t hurt because I’m a huge rut right now. It’s more like a ditch. So, I’m participating on my own time. To stay accounatable I am going to post my progress here. I’m starting today. The book is called Get Out of the Rut and On with Your Life by Deb Erickson. My director down here respects this author and anything that provides motivation and inspiration to get moving is worth lookng at to me. This book looks interesting and a little more involved because it not only tells what to do, but it gives the opportunity to apply it. It has activites at the end of each section; homework, if you will. So this could definitely work for me.

• Another Project

  • March 2nd, 2011
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  Yesterday afternoon I had my weekly knitting lesson. It was about increasing and decreasing like last week, but today we started a pattern. I say “we,” however, I was the only one there this week! So, I started a new pattern. It’s a scarf. The pattern is called Norwegian fir lace. It’s pretty and delicate. I supposed I could have chosen a daintier yarn, but I loved the color of this yarn. The biggest downfall is I seem to have picked out a bad skein. It was the last one left in this color, go figure; and I just had to have it. Continue Reading »

• It’s Growing!

  • February 24th, 2011
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  Meanwhile, my old experiment is growing. It started off as practice for knitting the garter stitch. Then, I figured out the purl stitch. I made some mistakes and ripped it apart and started all over. It helped keep me in practice with casting one anyway. So, the last time I started it over, I knitted a couple rows. Then I think I purled four rows and then knitted 4 and then purled 4. Then I decided I wanted it to have vertical ribbing so I did something like k5; p5. Continue Reading »

• These Are Awesome

  • February 24th, 2011
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  This is my next *big* knitting project. When I first went to the yarn shop down here to check the place out and inquire about classes for me, we saw these legwarmers made in the shop. This week I asked about getting the pattern since I’ve figured out knitting and purling and it turned out to be a free pattern with yarn purchase. Yay! So I bought 2 skeins of this beautiful red yarn. I think the colors in this are so pretty! There were other colors available in this particular brand and if I am successful making these red ones, I may just make another pair in another color. Continue Reading »

• An Exercise in Increasing and Decreasing

  • February 22nd, 2011
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  Beginning of a purse.

  This afternoon’s knitting class covered increasing and decreasing. These are not easy tasks. I made a lot of mistakes practicing, but that’s why it’s called practice. The exercise we did today created some eyelets. It was familiar because way back when I started a purse that has eyelets. I didn’t get very far with that purse, but I definitely made a few rounds and finished at least one set of the eyelets. I don’t even think the eyelets are visible in this picture. This pattern is difficult because the yarn is so dark. I have trouble seeing the stitches sometimes when I’m using a darker color of yarn. One of these days I am going to finish this purse pattern. It’s in Vogue Knitting on the Go: Bags and Backpacks. I’ll probably get back to this purse after I figure out my abandoned socks. There’s always something I can work on! Continue Reading »

• There Will Always Be Change

  • February 21st, 2011
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  I alluded to changes coming in regard to this blog. I’m expanding my horizons. Life is more peaceful and serene now than it was for several years. In the past year and a half I left a very bad situation. Upon leaving that situation I realized that situation had made me rather ill. I only weighed 97 lbs. and I was depressed. I took time off from my business to regain my health. In doing so, I did a lot of soul searching. To be honest, I wasn’t sure if some of the things I had once enjoyed were really for me. I also understood that I wasn’t really able to enjoy much of anything. Continue Reading »

• Knitting Evolution

  • February 19th, 2011
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  So I totally ripped apart what I was doing and startd over because I figured out the purl stitch on my own with a little help from Sally Melville’s book The Knitting Experience: Book 2: The Purl Stitch. I was doing fine til I realized I’d added a stitch somehow. Not knowing how to fix it I took it all apart. I started over and then realized I hadn’t been placing the needles properly. I had the right needle on top of the left instead of under it. So I knitted 4 rows and purled 4 rows a few times and decided to make it look more interesting by purling 5 stitches and then knitting 5 stitches repeatedly. I messed up again by adding stitches. This time I was actually able to undo them and fix it myself without starting over! This time I forgot to move the working yarn to the front and back when switching from knit to purl and vice versa. It’s very satisfying to encounter a problem, identify it, and then figure out how to fix it on one’s own.

• Making Progress

  • February 18th, 2011
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  My knitting practice project is coming along. I’m ready to start purling. I’m going to a sit and stitch group in a little bit to see what that’s like, too. At the next class on Tuesday we will purl. I’m going to go through my books and things and see if I can figure it out sooner. Right now, I’m just repeating the garter stitch. I’m so ready to move forward! I want to start doing patterns again. I want to finish my unfinished things and start some thing new. There are two patterns I saw at the store that I would love to try. One is very cute flared legwarmers and the other is a cute knit skirt. I’m so ready to go! LOL  I want to make the legwarmers and wear them to ballet class!

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