Still Growing, Planning, Believing

It has been awhile since I've blogged.  Life gets in the way of the things we care deeply about and want to ensure continues to move down the path we've established.  This year has been a difficult one for many of those who care about and expend energy keeping our dream alive.  The dream of creating a jewelry business that includes one-of-a-kind heirloom quality pieces and carefully selected fashion jewelry.  We continue to move towards our dream as it evolves and changes to meet today's realities. 

We are blessed with a full-time very special volunteer, Linda.  She comes to work everyday to organize, mark in new inventory, and attend sales events.  Linda helps wherever she can to help us continue our dream/vision.  Volunteers make the difference and we plan to establish an advisory team to help move our business forward.  We will bring together a few women to share our vision/dream and ask for their ideas and suggestions to expand and grow our business.  Our ultimate goal is to support staff for our business and donate profits to Community  Action Partnership of Mid-Nebraska.

Linda was part of our small group as we discussed how to open the market for hand-designed and hand-crafted jewelry.  Our vision is to become part of a large wholesale market selling to boutiques, museums, and gift stores.  This would allow us to hire women working more than one job to support their families.  They could create the jewelry at home to fill our orders.  This would allow them to be at home in the evenings with their families.  This is the dream that keeps us moving forward when our bodies are worn and tired after standing for long hours sharing our story and selling our jewelry.  When at the end of the day long event we drive through a fast food joint; take our meal to the hotel, get on our pj's and eat sitting on our beds.  Then we crawl into bed, shut off the light, sleep fast before we get up and start all over again.  We do this because we believe in our dream.  It is above and beyond our daily lives of work, family, and friends.   

We are blessed to have these few women who believe and care about our dream.  More later, Karen