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Road to NSS 2017

It’s been a career long dream of mine to go to the National Stationery Show in New York. For the past 6 years it was never in the cards for me, until this year! The stars aligned and I am going as an attendee to walk the show. Flight and stay is officially booked so there’s no turning back! I’m determined to be an exhibitor in 2017. Determined!

I’ve decided to start planning and budgeting now since I am on a strict/low budget. Thanks to the tons of information I got and learned at Papercamp I’m equipped with as much as I can to have a successful first show. I’m so excited!

I started with the fun stuff, researching cute and functional booth designs. I’ve done different kinds of trade shows and craft shows during my time in business and NSS booths are just the prettiest hands down. Maybe I’m biased because of all the awesome paper eye candy. Then, I created my planning spreadsheet that has my budget, to do list, and expenses all in one place. Not so fun, but spreadsheets are still mah jam. 🙂

So here we go guys! Let’s see where this road takes us!

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Would you Die for Someone you Don’t Even Know?

Even the people that do you wrong? To be honest, I don’t think I would have the courage to die for a stranger or even for the good of mankind. But today, we remember that someone did. Can you imagine dying for someone that talked crap about you behind your back? Someone that isn’t even born yet? Even more, can you imaging dying for an alcoholic, a drug addict, a robber, a murderer? Can you? I can’t. But Jesus did.

He died for people that He would never meet on this Earth.
He died for people that did you wrong.
He died for the forgiveness of the sins hat we committed.
He died for all the sins that we will commit.
He died for us.

good-friday

Every Good Friday for the past 3 years I can’t help but stop and think about what happened today over 2000 years ago. I used to take today for granted. I can’t help but think about how things could have been different if Jesus just defended Himself or found a way around dying. But that wasn’t God’s plan for His Son. Can we pause to think about that too for a moment?!

Today, Christ died for us so that he could rise again in 3 days. On Easter, we celebrate the reason why we all believe in Jesus Christ. In my opinion, it’s the most important day in a Christian’s life. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. It’s only Friday. Today let’s remember the ultimate sacrifice that Jesus had to pay so that we can believe what we believe.

xoxo,

Kissa

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Work Life Lately

Working on my stationery business has been tough lately. I’ve been struggling to find a normal routine. I guess that’s the drawback or running a home based business. Last week was probably my first victory in setting time aside to get things done and I felt so accomplished!

  • Mother’s Day 2016 release – check!
  • Send out wholesale newsletter – check!
  • Plan out this week’s marketing plan – check!
  • Reach out to my Mastermind – check!
  • Craft show planning – check!
  • Plan out release calendar – check!
  • New product work – check!

We have so many exciting things coming up! *insert scheming slightly evil laugh here* I’ve been working on a new product that will hopefully be released at the beginning of May. Also, our #COfitnessjournals are getting some TLC. Using it for almost a year now has really given me a chance to look at it and see what more I can add to it as well as work on its format and packaging. That’s all I’ll say! 😉

I’m determined to keep this momentum going and create a concrete workflow. This week I’m focusing on getting my office cleaned up and organized. I’m too ashamed to even show you a picture! Yes, it’s that bad. I know that once I get my surroundings organized and more workable I’ll be more productive! Cheers to the week!

xoxo,

Kissa