Botanical blunderings on a budget - good life starts here.

redsquirrel80

What a brilliant idea. I might have access to some 'learn how to teach online' materials if you're interested Pippi

Pippilongstocking

Oh yes please red - I'll reply later when I can

Lottie pot it up it might do nicely for a while yet - KC was very right

Dashing off to eat home made pie by the peedie chap.

have a great evening

Pippilongstocking

Hey up all


Another Nsd yesterday and I only drove 4 miles - (bus and back for cellochops)
HM meals again - yay and have got stuff out tea later grandads chicken nuggets (which are naked but lets not go there!)


Boy made a mighty fine pie too.

Today an in the old office day, bit polytunnel stuff, bit of a yomp with mut take in lunch
Work to do on IV course
Work to do on my own class for next week
Work to do for one committee I'm on
Research about online working/tutoring (thank you Ws)
Contact old HOD and find out what opportunities there might be there
Need to start a huge powerpoint for flower photos for guru chap
Need make a start on hunting out photos etc for another job.
Need put all photos in one place - that be handy eh?
Need to investigate 'lily like daffies' for a job (paid)

Wet but bright and still very windy, might take out stuff to go a weeding later but not sure I'll get we'll see its very cold here.

Banks to check, pads to make

Hens fed - but appear to be slowing down on laying (OH NO) or they've a secret stashed nest else where must investigate over weekend.

Hope you all have a great day will try and catch up later on too xxx

Karmacat

Glad I remembered about the basil

Secret nests! I'm sure there's a witty photo I could find if I could post photos up on here and I'm loving all the photo talk too - you've suddenly realised what a huge resource that is, from the sound of it. good for you!

Pippilongstocking

£2.79 in one account- but phone off hurray - might put £10 over there from other account (£100 in it) if I can just in case

Do time sheet today for the teachign I've done, I might as well claim it rather than it being in the office til next summer.

£10 to the captain as well.

Thats me today

Pippilongstocking

Karmacat wrote: »

Glad I remembered about the basil

Secret nests! I'm sure there's a witty photo I could find if I could post photos up on here and I'm loving all the photo talk too - you've suddenly realised what a huge resource that is, from the sound of it. good for you!

I'm hoping tis a stashed nest rather than laying going off the boil, but I can't complain they laid right through last winter. I wonder if its anything to do with having the cockeral?

Photos - well I'm lucky that one of the frist lessons we had back in 1999 was in takign photos of flowers - they did say - you'll use this - but we didn't really listen, funny how we're all mad snappers still.

I do need a serious look at them (on disk/drive/laptop) and get them in one place.You're right they are a real resource I just need to fathom how to use them

Funny can't see the wood for the trees sometimes

Have a great weekend gal!

Keiss_21

Wow, lots of potential on-line opportunities for you Pippi, hope you manage to set something up soon. You'll be great, I just know it!! Have fun sorting out all your piccies too.

Well done on handing in your timesheet Pippi. I at last got around to sending my timesheets for August and September to my boss at the craft centre. She wants be to bill her for the hours that I have done as a self-employed person. So I suppose I ought to call her my client now, rather than my boss! I haven't thought of a new name for my IT work, do you think I should? My crafting business is going to be called Llana & Floss, too fluffy for IT work methinks. I ought to let the Tax Office about everything that's going on too...must root out all the bumfph I got from Business Link a few years ago.

I have also done a bit of work on her web-site for the first time. I have just updated her workshop listing ands tidied it up a bit. It could do with quite a face-lift/re-work, but have to step carefully as her husband set it up originally.

Right, that's the bread proving, will soon need its first session of prodding, then I am off to do some wood staining, before getting into the craft room....busy, busy, busy!!

Have a lovely day everyone x

MatyMoo

Keiss - Nothing to lose suggesting an update even though her husband set it up originally. All websites need regular re-vamps to keep people interested and to make sure you are still able to provide everything on it, add new items/services and check pricing is still accurate.

Pippi - If I remember correctly Mrs Moo knows of a photo site where people can pay to buy copies of your images. Would that be another source of patchwork income once you have all the photo's together?

Two more sleeps til Rodders arrives home - soooooooooo excited :j:D:j:D:j

troglodyte

Morning!

Phew, have caught up with you lot at last! Lots of great ideas on here the past couple of days!

Pippi, yes you did send me a piggyback plant, thank you, it's on the windowsill at the top of the stairs and doing very well :T

Today going to try again at the Inland Revenue. Have to submit my first ever self-employed tax return, I did register for the online stuff and they sent me the special code - but then I lost it before I could even use it so now have to start again! Not much progress there then

Have a good day all. Back to winter again here.

MrsMoo2U

phew, mad day here. Driving around Wales for meetings that people didnt turn up for, charity shopping in new town (fab and spent money on an M&S autograph skirt and a monsoon skirt = £7.50)

LT you read my mind. As I was skimming through the posts I made a note to tell Pippi about redbubble.com. It is a website where you can upload your photos and allow people to buy them as prints, framed art/canvas and cards. In fact I keep meaning to say that I would really love to buy a print of the photo of Einstein in your garden that you put on your blog a while ago. Tricia on another thread informed me though that redbubble have gotten into a bit of deep water as they are allowing somebody to market t-shirts that are a bit risky with regards to Hitler. I havent investigated it further as yet. Pippi, if you remember I sent you a card of Moo that was from Redbubble so would give you an idea of the quality. You can also sell your photos on your own website but not sure how you would go about that. I think that you can provide them via the computer for people to save to memory stick and print off. If you do show them on your own website make sure that they are watermarked and if people want to buy them from you then you could send them in email without the watermark perhaps.

It seems to me Pippi that you are ready for all of the opportunities that are starting to present themselves to you right now. Good for you. As you also have nearly 100 followers on your blog why not have a think about doing a giveaway of one (or a set) of your prints? You could select a few and allow the winner to choose one. That could be a bit of a promotion for yourself. You could also do it as a launch for your website. I won a print from a photographer by entering something on her website, it is beautiful and so I have recommended her to a couple of people so she got business from it too.