Step Away From the Cake

 I said yesterday that I was not going to make things all weekend, then immediately sat down and designed and cut a bunch of Hawaiian quilt keychains. Seriously???? I did get some of my class stuff done and that was good, but I quickly became overwhelmed. There are a lot of moving parts to this whole thing and I need to take a step back and regroup. So my Etsy shop is up and running, yeah. I think I need to just roll with that for a little bit until I get other things in play. I need, need, need to get my Shopify store open and producing. So I think I need to sit down today and determine my priorities. I have a lot to do, but which one will I get the most bang for most quickly needs to be determined.  So, I think my #1 priority is to attract customers to my mailing list and to my shop. So I'm going to work on that first. See, that immediately leads to other things that should be done first, like getting my Shopify store ready. I want to be able to send them to both so they hav...

 In last week's post I talked about doing some things on weeknights and some things on weekends and keeping track of it all in an undated planner I have and yada-yada-yada.  Yeah, none of that really worked out for me. The undated planner is a smallish weekly one and I just want to track things done or that need doing: social media posts, postings for websites, etc. Brief things so I know when things were done. I need to get through my courses and be ready for the new year. I have done some stuff, but there is so much more I need to do. I will be spending my break getting all this set up and ready to run. We go away on New Year's eve and don't return until January 2nd that I have to have everything done and ready to go by then. Whew, lots of pressure and lots to do. I can do if I focus and stick to it.  Today I'm going to work some more on my Etsy store and I think I might dip a little into my Shopify store too. I want them to be consistent so when someone goes to eithe...