Poetry at 6:30am...

As I was walking Chloe with my eyes half open this morning at 6:30, I looked down after she had squatted to make sure she wasn't trying to fake me out in the potty going department and I see this one, lone, slightly curled leaf floating right in the middle of her little puddle. It might have almost been poetic if we weren't talking about dog pee....

Some things never change - My fear of the Boogie Man

Image from macmcrae.com

I'm just curious if I'm the only one still partially convinced that standing next to my bed late at night is a surefire way to get eaten by the Boogie Monster... 3am potty breaks are often punctuated by a running leap into bed in order to avoid finding out if he still likes toes as much as he did in my nightmares as a child...

Sweet Emotion and Why Not Boutique...Open for Business!

Big day for me and my business tomorrow. After pretty much two straight days of moving and reorganizing, Sweet Emotion Boutique and Why Not Boutique are officially opening in one location, all but legally, one cohesive boutique. 

I've been feeling one of two ways for most of the weekend - first incredibly optimistic towards our future together. I have no doubt that it's going to be wonderfully fantastic. I can already point out a dozen different, little instances over the last few days where Monica and my skills, knowledge, lack of knowledge, etc has both complimented each others and inspired each of us in different ways. 

And the second I think is the inevitable sadness. Not for my business - technically I still have my business and I can truthfully say that I think this little merger of ours will breathe new life into both boutiques. And I really couldn't pick a better non-business partner than Monica - she gets people and she gets me - two incredible important things right now for us. I think it's really more of a sadness for the loss of my ideals.  The loss of the ideas of what business ownership is supposed to be like. As we all know - rarely do our ideals match up with reality - reality is often so much harsher and more...well, realistic...but I think I always believed this would be easy, that I could go it alone (or sorta alone), or that it would be a success if I just willed it hard enough. The reality is that if small business ownership was easy...everyone would do it, that going it alone is incredibly lonely, and that there is no amount of willing that will make up for a cruddy economy, and...let's face it...a less than stellar business model during those cruddy economic times.

So here's to the successes of the future and the dramatic crashing and burning of my ideals. May the next chapter of boutique ownership be richer and more laughter filled than the last! 

A beginning of sorts...

I have a confession to make. I am a serial blogger just ask anyone who knows me and follows all my blogs. It's actually embarassingly pathetic the number of blogs that I have begun and then abandoned because I've run out of things to say on any one particular topic. I've blogged about finding happiness, being a green business owner, weird and crazy things in my life, and a few miscellaneous other topics that I eventually had no interest in persuing.  So instead of altering the theme of that blog, I just go off and start another one.

Well that stops here *she says with a total lack of confidence or conviction.*  Let's revise that to hopefully the senseless blog abandonment stops here. Instead of trying to make things up that I'm interested in that follow one theme, I'm just going to write about whatever I darn well please. Fashion, design, business, going green, my dog, my off the wall family...whatever. It's going to be all about me and what I want to write about when I want to write about it. Therefore it will probably be complicated, contradictory, convoluted, and quite frankly might lack  any sense at all, but hey...that's me and I make no apologies for that. So all aboard, hang on, and enjoy the ride...I promise it will never be boring.