[Jewelry making - Article 00380] - Re: [Orchid] Sad Fact?

[Dinah Taylor]

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    Great post Jim, there isn't anything I could add to that.  I have a
    number of small businesses, so that I CAN stay home and work.  It
    seems as though every year I add or consolidate a 'business', but
    I'm still basically doing the same things, making jewelry and
    working with horses. I, too, have never felt that I was compromising
    myself by fixing and repairing jewelry (I also learn something every
    time I do a repair), or taking another avenue within my horse
    business to make ends meet.  I make fabulous turnout blankets for
    horses, they are pricey, and without question, by and large, they
    are made so well, that they either sell the horse, or the horse dies
    before the blanket wears out.  So 20 years or so ago, I started
    repairing and washing blankets, and it's a tremendous amount of
    physical work to wash those, which I do by hand and my commercial
    machine.  BUT, if I didn't offer this service to my customers, I'd
    have to have given up my dreams years ago. 

    Anything that you do in life always has two sides, the work and the
    joy.  To make the two meet so that you can continue your dream I
    remind my students something I learned more years ago than I want to
    remember-From Capt. Guyla Nadasy:  "Just remember on your way to
    your Olympic Dream, you don't forget how to use the broom." 

Cheers! Dinah.

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