There's a very fine line between reality and dreams.
Sometimes I dream of owning a quilt shop. Whenever I tease Bobby about what we'll have in "our" shop, he gets a wary look of concern and says, "I think you should work in a quilt shop first." And I actually have thought about doing that, but the only shop I've known to be hiring in the last few years is a 40 minute drive away. That's not exactly cost effective.
And for now, I'm perfectly content to simply think or dream about it. The reality is, the next two seasons of my life, maybe the next three, will simply not be conducive to owning a business (and chances are, if I made up a business plan for one, I couldn't afford it!). Meanwhile, I'm content to learn different techniques of quilting and their proper form, to observe how different shops operate, how they decorate, their fabric choices/selections. In my opinion, the most efficient and the nicest shops have a core group of employees, each who has their own unique strength and area of expertise. It's certainly not a one person operation.
I made the mistake last year of asking the group of girls I meet with every month if any of them ever thought about it, and found out they think about almost as much as I do, one of them even more. Since then we've been challenged quite a bit to think about what that would entail and when we could do it. And after just a few minutes of thought, I realized for me, it's simply not viable at this point in my life.
So when I grow up, I'm going to own a quilt shop...if I'm not a librarian, that is. :)
Sometimes I dream of owning a quilt shop. Whenever I tease Bobby about what we'll have in "our" shop, he gets a wary look of concern and says, "I think you should work in a quilt shop first." And I actually have thought about doing that, but the only shop I've known to be hiring in the last few years is a 40 minute drive away. That's not exactly cost effective.
And for now, I'm perfectly content to simply think or dream about it. The reality is, the next two seasons of my life, maybe the next three, will simply not be conducive to owning a business (and chances are, if I made up a business plan for one, I couldn't afford it!). Meanwhile, I'm content to learn different techniques of quilting and their proper form, to observe how different shops operate, how they decorate, their fabric choices/selections. In my opinion, the most efficient and the nicest shops have a core group of employees, each who has their own unique strength and area of expertise. It's certainly not a one person operation.
I made the mistake last year of asking the group of girls I meet with every month if any of them ever thought about it, and found out they think about almost as much as I do, one of them even more. Since then we've been challenged quite a bit to think about what that would entail and when we could do it. And after just a few minutes of thought, I realized for me, it's simply not viable at this point in my life.
So when I grow up, I'm going to own a quilt shop...if I'm not a librarian, that is. :)
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