Once a hustler, always a hustler. I’m back to selling….at a much smaller & slower pace.
Since I closed my shopito almost a year ago, my product has been taking up room and growing dust in my work shed.
We moved to Puerto Rico and I needed stuff for our apartment and learned there are not a lot of places to buy vintage here. A light bulb went off and I decided to bring some of my product here to sell to the vintage shops!
The first round of vintage I brought here with me was clothing. I already sold half of it to a store I love, Johnny & June. She asked me to bring more in November for Christmas Shopping!
I tried another shop but they only give store credit. The store doesn’t have much in my size and I really just want money, so I passed on it.
I have one other place to try to sell my clothes/products, but it will be on consignment. I like money now as opposed to maybe money later, but if I don’t try it won’t sell at all.
What should I bring next? Sets of Cocktail Glasses?
Should I bring jewelry?
Maybe Mid Century Decor pieces?
Or maybe MCM kitchenware or ceramics?
I will be flying with my product, so it can’t be too big, too heavy or too breakable. Wish me luck…getting it here and selling it!
PS…Contact me if you are interested in any of the above items…if they are still available they are for sale. And I ship!
Usually it is a lot of baby steps that create a big step. And some of those little bitty movements feel really big.
I just had a baby step towards something I really want and inside my core it feels huge. I put it off for around 2 months. Why? Well, that’s for another blog.
I am not going to talk about it in detail as I want it to come to fruition before I announce it.
With that said, believe in yourself. Don’t listen to the negatives from inside and out. Do what makes you feel good, but also push your comfort zones. Positivity is key.
I just got big chills after I wrote that. I’m a bit of a sensitive. I feel things. My Mom died in 2021 and after she moved on I started to get these intense chills just at the base of my neck. I knew it was her, now she is telling me she is happy for my little big baby step.
My Mom always had confidence in me. Way more confidence than I have ever had in myself.
I’m trying to change that, so baby steps are everything. I try not to jump ahead and think of the big picture, just one step at a time.
It’s kind of like my art. It starts with an idea or even an action, the first baby step.
It sits and then later I play with it, the second baby step. This may go quickly, or it may be a very long process, baby steps 3 to maybe 3000.
As in my art, sometimes I reach out for ideas, suggestions, advice on which way my step should go next. Maybe I should do that in life too. And besides just asking the Hub, I should reach out to the professionals in the area I want my steps to lead me.
My advice to myself and to others is said best in this quote. It was given to me on a magnet from a teen boy I worked with when I was leaving that job for something different.