The business of beads...

One way to signal that you are at work is to have a uniform. Jeans and a specific shirt, like a "Tink's Working" screen printed on it, or just get 5 shirt all alike that you only wear to work. Or get a apron to put on for working. I always put my pen on, one of those that are on a rope. The other thing you have to do is get a office phone number and caller ID. My phone was hooked up through the computer that had a vocal caller ID thus I didn't have to go to the phone to see the caller ID, it just yelled it out. That really makes a difference when you know how to answer, when to or not to answer, etc. My program also pulled up a customer ID for the phone numbers with purchase info etc.

Susan W

DO NOT drop in on me at the studio if you want to see someone dressed up. Dressup is for communicating something to others, that;'s what costuming is all about, telling info about you to others, whether you are a bird with plummage or a person in a suit. When I am at work, my work is the thing that others will see. I dress up for shows and sales calls, but I'm in a tiedyed tshirt right now, and have yet to comb my hair. Doesn't seem to bother anyone YET...... Sarajane

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love that place!! I helped Libby set it up, sewed her dressing room curtains and such, when it was over on King Avenue. She was my bead mentor, and started me out right.

I just did a sales call there last month, so they have lots of MY beads and cabs there too! Sarajane

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I LOVE cribbage!!!

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Please do, and if you haven't been there before---be prepared to stay a while. Its not only a HUGE barn of a place, but Joyce has excellent taste AND display sense, and there are more beads than you can shake a stick at in there.Drawer after drawer.....there's stuff right there for your eyes if you don't want to dig, and 40 times as much if you are willing to open all the drawers and spend the time... I'd say its the most well-stocked and varied bead store I've ever been in. Sarajane

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Cool, I'm looking forward to it already!!!

Hi,

I'm new here, but thought I'd give some advice about working out of your home. I did that for many years doing watch repair and pearl/bead restringing (that's how I stumbled into this newsgroup...beads). I found it was so important sometimes to just shut that door and walk away from it. The hardest thing about working out of your home is it never goes away. You really have to make yourself take time off from it, or you will burn out. It was really great for me while my son was growing up, though. I could schedule my own time, and volunteer at school, etc. Now he's graduated from HS, and I'm back in school to get my teaching degree...so I no longer work at home. I'm sure you will be successful at it, just make sure to schedule some down time, too. :-)

HTH, Steph

My husband loves cribbage, and plays backgammon on yahoo games. Anyone looking for a good partner.

Do you also play license plate cribbage like he does?

Tina

What on earth is license plate cribbage???

I'll have to check out Yahoo games. I play at Zone.com

License plate crib is when you use the numbers on the plate to make up a cribbage hand.

I think Pete is longwalk on line. He often plays between 9 and 11pm -- 12 and 2 your time.

I'll have to ask my husband who he is?

Tina

you play with the standard board, but in a car? And each player gets the next licence for a hand? Sarajane

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I'd love more details about your 'basket business'. I have several ideas about what that phrase -might- mean, but I'm not sure they match the truth.

I have great admiration for anyone who is being an entrepreneur. It includes wearing so many hats...

Deirdre

Something like that. I think Pete just does this to keep his eye quick. Since I don't play at his level, I don't think he has anyone to actually keep score with.

Tina

I sell for a basket co located in Ohio......they forbid us from posting on the web unless we use their website..you can e-mail me privately for more info tho....I enjoy their products, both baskets and pottery!

How about letting one of the older, more responsible neighborhood kid take Macy for walks?

Two birds...

Deirdre

This would be the basket-shaped place, I wonder? I have a almost-SIL that worked there. Sarajane

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Sure, please send a link. I'd like to look...

My address is what you see, minus the 'nospam'.

Deirdre

That would be the place, LOL