With These Hands…

The Playtex Create-Your-Own Cup

My husband and I are taking a financial course at church — Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University. It’s a great course, and we’ve learned a lot in the three weeks we’ve been going. (Check out this link.) This past week, we discussed budgeting and getting our affairs in order. (Mental note: we need to update our wills!) And though learning about real budgeting and finding ways to stick to our financial plan are important, the class really has me thinking about money in a different way.

Money, or lack thereof, completely controls my life. This course is teaching me to take control of my money. To make it work for me. But the deep underlying, unanswered question remains: What do I want it to do for me? Where do I want to be in five years? In ten? In thirty?

So, in all these months of blogging and deep reflection, I’m still at the same place I was in July. What do I want to do with my life?

I’m beginning to get a glimmer. Working at a desk job, while easy and profitable, was boring and completely unsatisfying. The monogramming/embroidery business I’m currently working with is fun. It can be time-consuming, and isn’t the type of business that generates a full-time salary (yet.) But making a beautiful hand-crafted item for a complete stranger can be comforting. I like envisioning what people will do when they receive their personalized gift. From hand-towels to sippy cups, diaper covers to coffee mugs, I like the concept that others will use the items I make. They will hold them in their hands, wash them when they’re dirty. The items will become a part of their lives.

From my hands to yours. From my creative energy to a completed product. I like it. To see the hand-crafted products I help produce, visit: http://stores.ebay.com/Aw-Fiddlesticks.

Peace, linden