Remember When

I first opened Tumus? It was over a year and a half ago.
I looked back in my sold section on this date and found one of my favorite photos. I can't tell you how many times people asked me to make this into a card. I thought I would, but honestly I love it too much as is it.

Callouses

Callouses happen when you work hard. You can get them anywhere where tough skin is required, but what about business callouses?

How toughened is your skin to those bad days? Can you cope? Do you press on with the knowledge that the end result will be good?
I like to think I'm getting my business callouses started. I press ahead when times are super busy or super tough. When the hours are long I remember that hard work will get me ahead. I try to rest easy knowing that I can always BE better. It's not easy and occasionally you have to exfoliate those bad days down and remember what it was like when you first had an inkling to start a business.

It's a balance.

Bumble Bee

No I'm not talking Transformers here, I'm talking about this little guy who just landed in my shop on Tuesday. Those flowers should look mighty familiar to one blog reader *wink wink*


As for the dog ornaments over on Tumus I've been pretty busy helping people come up with new designs. It's fun, but makes me really really tired at my "9-5". I have a request in for a Boxer ornament so I sketched up a quick drawing and will hopefully get the go ahead on it ^_^. Seems like a crazy week.

Tuesday Tea

Iced tea was popularized in America by an Englishman who live in Calcutta. Richard Blechynden was selling hot tea at the St. Louis 1904 World's Fair, with no success. In desperation he poured tea over ice and served it in tall glasses....and the rest is pretty tasty history.

Caught

Been working on my photography. After reading thru Pioneer Woman'sexplanation of aperture and how it works and what it does it made alot more sense. So I tried it out. It's about time I really start to use and abuse the settings on my camera. I'd like to remind everyone that regardless of the KIND of camera you have, so long as you know your settings you can literally capture any kind of picture ^_~

Very Pretty Treasury

^_^ I really enjoyed this one and I actually saw it hit the FP this time! woot ^_^
If anything, I really enjoy all the hearts I get from this kind of luck.
(thanks Sweptfromthesea)

Wild Applause or Rather Applaws

I realized I have an absurd amount of pictures concerning cat paws. But I mean look at them. When they're not clawing at me they are very petable.