So, here I sit, wondering why I am starting a blog and I realize it's because I like to talk!! And it's much easier to do on this blog than it is to do on the website itself. This I can figure out. The website has to be published by my wonderful (and patient) husband. I can work and create and add on to the site, but it won't be updated on the internet until he has a moment from his busy day to actually sit at the computer and publish it. This, I can do all by myself!
I think I will start with a little background on the website. Many years ago, it became a dream of mine to be able to sell my hand-crafted/painted/created items somewhere... but where? I thought about starting a little store all by myself, but the overhead seemed impossible! I wanted to bring in other people's works as well, but didn't think I could ask until I had a place to display their items. So, I sat on that idea for a while. My focus became my family: two children will do that to you. Then this summer, I gave etsy.com a try and found it so difficult to promote my own items and spent a lot of time posting items with no luck of selling them. Guess that way just wasn't for me. I finally decided to sit and write down in a notebook all the ideas I had that finally resulted in the website: www.fruitfulhandsboutique.com
Fruitful Hands Boutique was created as a place for women to share their amazing hand-crafted talents. Based on the Proverb 31 woman, it gives women a something to strive for (a woman that I will be striving to be for the rest of my life!!!). Proverbs 31:31 states: "Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates." It is my hope to be able to give women the opportunity to achieve this through my little boutique.
The essential details of the boutique are this: You create what you are good at. I do everything else. I will store your item, take pictures, post it on the website, and get it sold (at least I hope to!) and, if necessary, deliver or send it in the mail. I receive a percentage for my efforts and a percentage also goes directly to a charitable organization, which currently is Bethany Christian Services (www.bethany.org).
And that is the long and the short of it. Well, mostly the short of it.
