Monday, July 4, 2016

I am an Entrepreneur! ~ Aava's Best Kept Secret First Big Sale!!


So this is my beautiful logo! This is the culmination of nearly two years of researching and dreaming of owning a business that would catapult me into the next phase of my life. That phase of course is having a forward moving direction in life that keeps me passionate for my work and feeds my hunger for knowledge in business itself. The craving for earning not just monetary gain, but true success that was built from my own two hands, is something I have been battling with my entire life. I have always had the spirit of an entrepreneur, wanting to work hard and earn money my way. 

This idea of creating this business came about when my husband broached the topic of wanting to start a family. I was stunned, thinking wow out of nowhere he felt compelled to say, "hey, I think I am ready to try to start a family with you." That was a big night for us, needless to say, and for the next week he felt more strongly about it than he did initially. My husband has never just tossed around big ideas or made light of big decisions. We as a couple have always taken our life choices seriously and have put much thought and effort into what we do and don't do. So the prospect of trying to start a family had me thinking, "what the hell do I bring to my potential child's life?"

Part of being a good parent, for me, is passing on knowledge and wisdom to your children. Your flaws, your weaknesses, as well as your strengths and successes, is what I feel we give most to our children. So what knowledge will I have to impart? What do I bring to the parenting table? I have a lot of child care experience so the fundamental stuff, changing diapers and feeding isn't what I mean here. I am talking about both the tangible and intangible knowledge my potential child will gain from me as a mother. What do I have to show for myself, what have I done with my freaking life so far. This answer is vastly different for everyone, please remember this is my blog not yours. And to be totally straight up, I feel that up until I started on this journey of opening a business and growing into a majorly successful shop came about, I have done virtually NOTHING with my life. I can hear my Mother now, "that's not true, you are a great daughter and wife and care giver." Yes that is true, but it isn't enough. Plain and simple, it just isn't enough, not for me anyway. Also thanks Mami, I love you.

I don't want to just be an amazing support to those in my life, I want to be more. I have always wanted to be more, but I have failed at it so many times. I know I have such potential, but for some reason I have always just failed. I am not afraid to say that I have failed in my past, because who hasn't? I don't view it as a negative thing, it is the only way you will ever succeed. So yeah I have messed up and wasted opportunities for many different reasons and you know the old blah blah blah excuses excuses story. I am not going to tell it, because you know what that is like. Fast forward to today, I just printed a shipping label for Sprouting Threads, a children's clothing and accessories subscription box service, (will be linked down below) for nearly 200$. Like for real, just now. How amazing is that, that even me the most procrastinating, scatter brained, ADD, all over the place woman of 25 years of age, is finally truly succeeding at something that is self made. I couldn't be more proud of myself, my drive, my determination, my will to succeed. 

This whole thing is not just about me or just for me it is so much more about my family and the people that brought me up and the siblings that I have, my husband, daughter, my sister and father in law. Every single last person that I am close to, has supported me, has believed in me, has cheered me on. 

I am a successful sister, daughter, wife, mother, and entrepreneur. 
I love my life, I love my family and friends and I just wanted to make sure that I took note of that right here and now. 

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-Alexandra


Monday, June 13, 2016

I've made two sales so far... My slow journey through the maze that is ETSY...

   
I've made two sales so far...

     I have only made two sales so far on Etsy and while I am happy that I am off the ground, I am also frustrated and disappointed. This is my first 6 months of owning a business and the harshness of it all is definitely real at this point. Wanting to be fully honest about my experiences, I didn't want to leave out the times that have really been hard for me to deal with. I get hundreds of views on my items and my shop and yet nobody takes that next step and buys. I feel my prices are very fair and my products are high quality and of course I think they are super cute so what the hell? I have about 4k views on this blog and yet nobody subscribes, why is that? I have over 2k YouTube Subscribers, but I have over a quarter million views on my youtube channel overall, so why don't more people subscribe? This is the basis of my disappointment at this current moment. In so many different creative areas of mine here on the internet people are interested, but for some reason unable to commit, unable to say "I don't want to miss her stuff". WHY!!!??? So please help a frazzled/losing it girl out and SUBSCRIBE!!!! please...

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Wednesday, January 6, 2016

We're Moving!!






Oh my lordyyyyy!!!! We are finally moving!! I am not entirely sure when I will post this, but YAAAASSSS!!! We are outta here!!! Ok enough exclaiming. As most of you know my gorgeous husband is in the military and it is time to move on to the next duty station. I'm not 100% sure what all he is ok with me disclosing as his job is sensitive, but what I can say is that my parents live in Virginia and we will be only a drive away now from them instead of multiple plane rides. For the first time in 6 years we will actually live in the continental US and we are beyond excited for this move. Aava, our first child, is approaching 5 months and to be able to bring her home, to my home, is nothing short of a military miracle. We feel so happy and although we are not religious people by any means, we feel blessed to have these next potentially 4 years close to home. I'm trying not to cry right now, but man does it feel good to go home. To say that the last 6 years have been hard on us and our families is just not enough. We have missed so much of the kid's lives and development that all we can do now is try to make up for lost time. The next 3 weeks or so will be totally nuts and I am considering taking you all along with me as much as I can, since I am still working it will be a bit hard. I will likely film some stuff and wait until we are home to edit and post our moving experience. This move is very last minute and is not the typical way the US military moves it's people, but sometimes things get a bit nutterbutters and we grew up rolling with the punches and making the best of the situation. My husband told me today, "let's just take a second and really be happy and positive because we are going home!" And he was so right, I'm stressed out about everything, but damn we are finally going home and there is no better feeling in the world. We love our family, our parents, siblings, nieces and nephews mean everything to us. If we could buy a giant house where everyone could live that would be ideal. I will leave you with a question, where is home for you? My home is wherever my family is at the moment, we are a huge military family all of the men and a good amount of the women and nearly every single kid is the product of the collective armed forces. So from our home to yours Happy New Year!!

Thank you for reading,

-Alexandra L.

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