Millionaire Challenge

Ooh yes, deffo keep your head above the water with ear problems. Sorry to reach for the stars with the swimming! I realise I was thinking of swimming in the Med, and ... you're not, even in a heated pool (I was also 20 years old on that holiday :o:o - a leetle bit too much daydreaming on my part!).

Cat website has gone well - got a lovely image, nicely cropped, to use as the background, its got detail but its of a cat statue, a closeup I took recently at the Guildhall, so it really works, without cluttering.

The Links page is a dog's dinner, excuse the pun fonts, sizes, bolding, all sorts of garbage in there. If I can get that done today, I'll be a happy bunny. I may "simply" type it out again ... but right now, I'm off for a snack

Enjoy yourself DT :kisses3: :kisses3: :kisses3: and that goes for all.

I've had two Vauxhall Corsa and loved them both..had no problems whatsoever with them but the first one I got hit in the side with a bus and the 2nd my OH went into the back of someone...!! So maybe they or us are just unlucky!! Personally I would have it again in a heart beat but we have a Renault Scenic which is great for a family although not as trust worthy..

Glad everything is going well as it can doesn't sound like you've had many problems yet with the paper work ...insurances are usually the most annoying!

Enjoy your day off. KC I seem to have lost the link to your website although I found innerpress one but I swear you have two and that isn't the main thing? Would love if you could send me the link again :-)

Well here I go..................

So I've brought myself a desk top vinyl cutter and I have to say I HATE IT with so much passion...but I can do so much with it. I was in such a bad mood for about 3 days after I brought it because I just couldn't see it making me any money and this was the first time I'd made a bad decision in my business...and a £300 one.

My OH was saying it's only £300 etc...but hey that's about 3 months business wages, a small holiday.. I was driving myself up the wall lol! I feel like I've been on a high for quite a while so I think it did me some good to have a rampage.. (I'm not painting a good picture of myself am I?! lol)

I had decided to sell it, but I spoke to my Dad and he said look.. you've brought it now, leave it on your desk for a week and see how you feel and I did...and I've had a slight change of heart(it still drives me potty).

I might not be seeing that £300 any time soon but I've started making a few bits that make me an extra bit of income so for now ..I can't see it working for a big business but I can expand my lines a bit and it's not costing me anything to keep it now that I've got it (and lets face it, it's 2nd hand now so I won't be getting that £300 back either.)

So I had this idea but I needed a special type of frame to do it, lots of people are doing things with these frames but I can't find the frames anywhere for less then £20..and here people are selling them 'done' for £15-20.

It took me a week to find a supplier I went on every site you can think of...I contacted websites selling them, even had conversations with a guy in China and he wanted me to pay £25 for a sample (express delivery I guess) but only £8 a frame and I was all ready to go ahead and he sent me a photo...wasn't what he had advertised AT all so I sent him one back of what I wanted and then he said oh we can do that for you! $40 each (£25 or so each)......

Moving on swiftly... I had practically given up but I had one last idea, I found myself a Framers forum and I said PLEASE HELP ME I NEED THESE!! (Not quite like that but at this point I was tearing my hair out) and had a few offers, got talking to one guy seemed pretty nice agreed to send me a sample and I paid him and he covered delivery so all good...arrives and it's what I wanted but not the agreed size..I mentioned this to him and he didn't respond to it just wrote back to other things in my e-mail...so I was a bit annoyed as I had things ready to go my end but couldn't do anything with this frame to small, so I contacted another one and he is sending me two frames today so I will update on that later! (Only cost me delivery of £7 as they are samples to! )

Anyway, I have lots of new product ideas I can get into with this machine but I've put quite a lot of money down ATM (for me anyway) and I need to start making some money back first before I expand even more so trying to get some designs together for my first product and get a few sold..new facebook page up esp for this one as it's quite a bit different from what I do already and will take up a lot of photos :-)

Karmacat wrote: »

Ooh! I *have* to use facebook as a way of publicising the website - its easy to publish new pages for one thing, there's a direct link via f/b. But I want a new f/b specifically for this - I can set that up without a big launch, can't I? Must find a thread for it on these forums ....

Good luck with the income streams, lovely people :T

I'm not sure what you mean here KC but if you are setting up a separate account? don't make the mistake of naming it after your business ~ facebook are known for shutting these down and have left quite a few businesses in the **** because they lose messages contacts etc..

I would still make a side account with a real name if you don't want people to know what you're doing, as say you want to advertise it on a group page you'll have to use your main account with a link to your business page ~ as you can't post with a business page to a group.

Hope that is of some help.

Wow everyone has been so busy

LL I second the corsa both my children have had them and they have been reliable and spare parts are readily available, I think it is a good idea to take time to sort out what you want to do now - hugs to you xx

Kayalana I hope you get to love your new machine and that it makes you a lot of money

KC so pleased that you are making progress with your website and your fb page. Not sure what you mean by the stencils - what are they made of?

Just heard today that our placement has ended. They were supposed to be with us on Sunday when we get back but nobody thought to tell us that they have gone home to their parents typical of social services :mad: good job I emailed them.

Still it gives me more time to concentrate on my new business there will be lots of work to do so I will be with you KC on making a website and fb page but need to do some more research to see whether it is likely to succeed lots of internet tools I need to get my head round currently listening to ecommerce podcasts but the broadband speed is poor today so lots of buffering I think I will have to abandon online games if I am going to get this thing up and running this is definitely a bad habit I need to ditch.

DTxx

Hi DT

This is the actual stencil book I'm using, by Theodore Menten, I found it on Amazon (though I bought it at my Egyptology meeting, for less!).
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ancient-Egyptian-Cut-Use-Stencils/dp/0486236269/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1409820499&sr=8-12&keywords=theodore+menten

The stencils are apparently made from "medium weight manila paper" and now you know as much as I do :rotfl:

I've found my craft knife, ready to cut out my experiment when I'm ready, and I've checked out what fonts I've got access to, to do the wordles. A lot of actual *paid* work today, though, so can't do too much more.