Well I’m going to try once again to find extra income working from home so I can replace my current income that I earn working outside the home. Now don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love my job, but I have to think about what summer will bring. We do a lot of camping during the summer, and since I work every weekend, this really isn’t going to work out. So I’ve been checking out some medical coding training courses and looking at different companies that are looking for content writers. I want to get this thing moving as quickly as I can so by the time summer arrives I will have everything all set up. I’ll keep you all posted.

Since the children will be home for about two months after tomorrow, I have changed my focus on what type of work I will be doing from home. I have decided that this summer will be the perfect time to try to get my home crafting business off the ground once again. So I really need to rearrange the home office once again. I need to get out my sewing machine, my craft table and my cash drawer. Since it will be easier to create crafts than work on the computer with two little people underfoot, I have decided to switch tasks for a little while. Now all I have to do is get my room rearranged and I can start creating crafts once again.

Well the handwriting is on the wall. In a month’s time I will be unemployed once again. My husband’s shifts are changing at his work so it will be impossible for me to work as I still haven’t found a reliable sitter. Even if I could find one, it really wouldn’t pay me to continue to work and pay one when all I make is minimum wage.

So it’s time once again for me to concentrate on finding something else that I could do to earn a little extra income. I have looked into administrative careers, but I would either need to go back to school to do this (money) or I would need to find a sitter so I could work during the day. But, I’m not worried. We survived on just his paycheck before so I’m sure we can do it again. I just wish things hadn’t worked out this way as I really do love my job.

As many of you may be aware, to earn a little extra income for our household, I do some freelance writing. Most of my efforts lately have been directed to paid blogging. For those of you who may not be aware, paid blogging is when a company asks you to write about a product like stereo cabinet or a service and after you post about it on your blog, then they will pay you for your time and post. But, these opportunities seem to be dwindling away so I have been looking at other ways to earn this income. Well, I have found another way to earn this income. And this is through freelance article writing. This is pretty much the same thing as paid blogging, except you don’t need a blog to participate. Although it’s not my ideal form of writing, it does earn me extra money when I need it. So between the both, I am coming close to earning my ideal income level from working from home.

Well now that it’s officially a new year I did make a new year’s resolution this year. I have decided that I’m going to get extremely serious as far as my crafting business goes. Last year wasn’t a really good year for my craft sales and I do intend on changing that this year. I’m going to set aside more time for crafting and then I’m going to advertise my crafts a whole lot more than I have done in the past. I’m hoping that I can make enough money to purchase a couple of Hamilton watches for my husband and my oldest son for their birthdays. Hopefully this little bit of motivation will get me off my butt and get me working more on my crafts. Wish me luck!!

I can’t believe it’s almost the end of October. For the past couple of months I have been extremely busy creating jewelry as I get ready for the upcoming Christmas craft fair season. I pretty much have all the jewelry made that I wanted to so I’m quite happy about that. Now if I would only get the promotional products that I ordered in the mail before the first craft fair comes I’ll be really happy. I do realize that my work speaks for itself, but I would like to have these items to pass out to customers. The more I can get my name out there in the jewelry making industry, the better my chances are to have a successful craft fair season. So fingers crossed that these products come in my mailbox in the next couple of weeks.

As you all know, I am a stay at home mom. But to help out with the household finances, I try to do a little working from home as well. So when I have a little free time I browse the Internet looking for work at home jobs. I’ve come across a lot of sites that offer work from home jobs. But the best job sites that I have stumbled across sites like the bostonjobsite where all you need to do is upload your Boston resumes and search for locations and industries that match your desires. I always look for telecommunication jobs because I want to stay at home with the kids as long as I can. I do pretty good working from home, but am always on the lookout for something more. So I continue to browse.

Most of you may not be aware of this, but I have set up a small crafting business over at Simply Crafting. Here you will find all the projects that I have personally made up for sale. Most of the inventory of the inventory that I have for sale is homemade jewelry. I have had a couple of sales from my site. But I haven’t sold nearly the amount of jewelry that I want to.

I was contacted today from a friend of mine who is having a yard sale on Saturday. She asked me if I would like to participate in it and try to sell some of my jewelry. So I figured why not. Even if I don’t sell a thing on Saturday the only thing I will have wasted would be my time. So I’m off to a yard sale on Saturday and hopefully the first of next week I’ll be able to come in and post that I’ve sold a ton of jewelry.

I’ve been posting quite a bit about my latest venture. That would be the home crafting business that I’m trying to get up and running. When it’s all said and done I would like to sell quilts, knitted products, plastic canvas products and of course my homemade jewelry. So this is a post to give you all a sneak preview of things that I will eventually be selling. I haven’t been working really hard at the selling part yet as I’m trying to build up my inventory. But, I will show you a couple of pictures that will eventually be up for sale. So enjoy looking at the pictures and please leave me a comment to let me know what you think. I would love to hear from you all.

A little over a month ago I filled out our taxes and sent it away.  My husband is suppose to get a substantial refund back (if I did it right) and I will be getting a smaller refund back.  Now I realize that it takes time to go through the snail mail system and back again, but since it’s been a little over a month I have started hounding the mail lady again. lol

One of my worst faults in life (besides smoking, and that’s another post) is I absolutely hate to wait.  I’m am probably the most impatient person on the face of this planet.  And I especially hate waiting if I know there is something good coming.  But, because I sent my tax forms through snail mail, I have no choice but to wait.  But I don’t want to!!