Not much happened during Chinese New Year. One of my grandaunts passed away earlier this year, so not many of my Dad's cousins came to visit my grandmother.
Not much has happened in the handcrafting department either (except today which I'll talk about later). I've been trying to make bracelet stuff 'cos I still have the stuff to do so, like embroidery threads for friendship bracelets and whatnot. I tried a new pattern with instructions that were very new to me. Basically it shows you what to do each row, but show the direction of crossing and looping with arrows. (I never thought that the way you crossed or looped threads around each other would matter, but apparently they do.)
Most of the past week was spent moping about how no one was buying anything lol At first I thought the problem was marketing, so I started getting back into social media (sort of). I resuscitated my Facebook account, and befriended a bunch of people from school. To be honest, for a long time I felt like my worth was determined by the number of people who would pay me attention, but I know that's not true, and something to be discussed for another day lol I'll probably spread word around again when I have created more stuff.
Another problem, after talking to the Boob about it, was pretty much something I created for myself. I guess I overestimated how much people would be willing to buy my flowers, and priced them too high lol So just today, I lowered it down from $20 to $12 for a bouquet, which I guess is more reasonable. Probably should've done that from the start. if I wanted to sell my Valentine's day bouquet. Now I can't send it to anyone 'cos I'll be getting braces tomorrow and have no time to meet up with anyone.
I also should've made more individual flowers, so that at least people have a greater choice of what I have, but I didn't like the stick ones I made. After successfully making a bouquet that I was happy with, nothing else would suffice lol Anyway, I might make individual ones next week. That being said, I just made a notebook from scratch that I'm really really proud of. I guess the cutting of my paper could be better, but what to do without a proper paper cutter lol And if I spent more time cutting out my letters properly, they might look neater. I like it anyway, and I'll put a listing up tomorrow morning when there's more traffic online.
Anyway, time to get down the story of coach lol A couple of things happened, one of which was the pricing problem. The first price I gave to him was $24, because I thought each flower would be worth $2. And then I changed it to $20 earlier this week on Carousell to make it cheaper. And then again, after talking shop to Hans, I decided (again) to bring the price down. Coach was nice enough to pay $20 even after I told him I didn't want to overcharge him. His reason was that he already agreed to it, and that it wasn't fair to me omg coach I don't deserve your money ;w;
Just as I reached Bouna Vista, (not only was I meeting him there, but I needed to change to green line to get to Clementi lol) he suddenly messaged me asking if I could deliver the flowers to his wife's office, 'cos she works around there, and I was liek wat. I was like coach dis is 2 soon n so sudden y u do dis. He said that it was okay if I wasn't comfortable to do so, and a part of me just wanted to do it anyway since he implied that I can't do it heh But even if I wanted to, I was too early; his wife would have been at a company lunch then. If I had been there later, I would've done it, just to prove him wrong (and to myself I guess, that I can do things!!)
While I was on my way to Clementi, he messaged me again, with three links on carousell, saying "look what I found", and they led me to listings of my flowers. I literally messaged him "what" [omg I'm on such good terms with coach lel] Even though it's a nice thought that someone would actually want to copypaste pictures of my bouquet to sell, all I could think of was that a report was to be made. Then he said it was him, and felt so accused that I intended to report him. Apparently he put up listings of my flowers on his own carousell account to try and give me some exposure and more responses. (Thank you boss, sorry boss) I later told him I couldn't sell anymore anyway, since I wouldn't be free on Saturday, so he took the listings down (t-thank you boss, s-sorry boss ;wwww;)
I finally met him at Bouna and he gave me the $20 he agreed on, and he wouldn't want to pay less. Damn son, give this man an award for being so nice and concerned about my poopy little business. Those twenty dollars are going to be put to very good use
That's all so far in my crafting-business endeavours. I'll probably try and whip up something new in the coming week... if my braces don't ruin me before then ;w;
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