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Down in a hole~wait, I see another door...

So, today I was reading more on my life as a internet celebrity and how people don't have anything else better to do than bash others. I also had some words with this lady about her telling me I am a rude person to deal with when it comes to selling stuff, that is another blog and I don't feel like getting upset over that again...yea yea yea, I'm over it. Yes, I was upset, but now I have had time to GET OVER IT! So...this is how it is.

I don't like to draw negative attention to myself. I am not the one to take the spotlight, I usually hide behind people. I don't try to fit in because I was born to stand out in my own way. All this nonsense has made me hide in a hole for a while. I took my Scentsy sticker off my car just because I don't want people to point me out in a crowd. I took my stuff off the yard sale page to just go MIA for a bit. Want things to settle. This is how I look at all this...I may be in a hole, but while being down here, I turned around to take a look at my surroundings and off in a distance past all the ways of jealousy, envy, stupidity, and bashing, I noticed this teeny tiny PINK door with a light on. I went towards it and VIOLA...it's a NEW START for me. I am a huge believer in fate and that for every bad thing that happens, there is ten good things that come out it.

Once inside this new door, and closing the one behind me now, I am going to stop selling my items on the OYS page and go bigger. My house is one big clutter closet with all this stuff and I know Jeremiah supports what I do, but I am sure he would love to come home one day to open the door without running into a dresser, table, paint cans, etc. I don't have any projects going on right now that are requiring me to post it and sell it. I am refocusing on my OTHER passion of scrapbooking and paper crafts. I brought EVERYTHING with me for scrapbooking and have it all set up in our third bedroom. I have so much stuff, I could open a store. My goal while here was to get caught up on my books and go home with no scrapbooking supplies. Um, well so far that ain't happenin', lol. Soooo, instead of getting up and checking to see if I have sold anything overnight, I will scrapbooking and doing what matters...preserving my life!!

I am going to focus on making gifts, pages, crafts and items to sell. I have big hopes and dreams in my future and it's time to get started. I have an Etsy account and will be selling on there. Forget the people here who bash me, they just don't realize that in this bashing session, they have inspired me to go bigger. So 'Thank You' to those haters.

There are a few more certificates I want to accomplish while here for when I get back and without the worries of the OYS page, I will be soaking up every ounce of information to persue what I want. Even though I made excellent money in my 'junkin', it's time to let go for awhile. But, I am not giving up, I am just moving on. This whole thing has taught me not to give up on truly matters~

I'm famous!

Ok, so the other day I posted some of my painted furniture on the okinawa yard sale website. The site I list all my stuff on...A friend of mine called me to tell me that on Okinawaunderground.com, there was a thread about me and my furniture. There were two bashing me and the others were defending me. The bashers were asked if they were jealous or envious of my work. Loved it!

I let it go and thought it was funny because the stuff they were talking about SOLD for $20. They were saying stuff like, 'what if it had mold on it, what if it were left in the rain and she is just covering it up'. REALLY PEOPLE, my customers have kids, why would I deliberately sell something dangerous to children when I am trying to make a name for myself and to carry this business back with me to the states. I swear there are some people in this world that don't deserve to speak. Anyway, so the big cabinet that I had posted, I took off due to adding a few things to it.

I reposted it this evening. In my ad, I fully described every detail that went into flipping it. I also made a statement at the bottom that basically was bashing my basher but in a professional way. I text me friend to tell her to read my ad and sure enough, she went to the OU page and said they had already started a thread on my ad. Freaking crazy...

After my 'PINK Standing Closet' was reposted, it was the third item on the list and guess what, you guessed it, someone IMed me about and will be here in the morning to look at it in person! The laugh I let out went to my bashers...then I had someone else write me and her IM said, 'I love your work, do you do custom orders'? Well, OF COURSE I do!! I was so flattered. THEN another lady emailed me and just said, 'just want to tell you that your work is gorgeous, congratulations'!

I am smiling so big right now because I am NOT the person that will allow a few peoples choice words or comment to ruin what I AM WORKING for...just ain't gonna happen! Now, excuse me from typing any longer, I have a rocking horse to tend to...

I have a Fanclub!

Apparently, I am famous! Just not the way that I have always dreamed of...I got a call yesterday from a friend and she told me that she was on a site looking some info up on something good she is involved in. Well, upon doing so, she stumbled across a thread (topic of conversation) that was talking about me and how I flip all this furniture...I HAVE HATERS! I feel honored that there are wives out there that sit around and talk about me and my skills. They have nothing else better to do all day than sit on this site and go back and forth and bash me. The funny part is that everyone that was writing in and commenting was standing up for me! THANK YOU! They were saying things like, 'Good for her', 'leave her alone, it's something she chooses to do and it's not illegal', 'there are TV shows out there that people do this on'...and so on. I guess I am just mind blown that there are people out there that spend their time bitching about other people success.

I am not going to change what I do to satisfy jealous envious people. I refuse. I refuse to satisfy them and even comment on what they wrote. I do what I do because I am good at it and enjoy it. Enough said.

I find it comical that this happened. I have to stop myself from going back to see if anything else has been written, I am not lowering myself to their level...I have furniture to paint! So that being said, I am off to finish another piece of furniture to post so it gives these lame people something to do today!!

If anyone wants to read my fanclub memos...go here. www.okinawaunderground.com. Scroll down til you come to the thread titled : 'Not a joke AFD NYJ'...something like that. Please do not create an account and leave a comment, just don't need the added drama. I would appreciate the support BUT I know I already have it! So for that, I truely THANK YOU ALL!

Natural...

Sometimes I feel I try to hard to be 'me'. I find myself more at ease with photos when I don't try as hard to be natural in them. The photo on the left is at the Valentines Day social for his Battalion. I had on fake nails, tried the whole fake eyelash thing, yeh, that didn't work...I just tried to hard to feel good in the dress. The whole time I was thinking, oh gosh, what is sticking out, what is not sucked in, what is showing? I just didn't feel natural. Now as for this other one on the right, I just love this picture. I feel 100% naturally pretty and relaxed. I didn't take 3 hours to get ready and I didn't have anything fake on. Just did my makeup like I always do and was very comfy in my jeans and casual shirt. I was just so happy and naturally posed for this picture. We were talking down the hill holding hands and throwing back love taps...then Kriston turned around and said, 'smile'. I did. I didn't hold anything in, didn't stick anything out, just was NATURAL! To me there is a big difference and I love it. I have to realize that the harder I try to be something I am not, the harder it is so see the genuine happiness in the photo!

Cleaning off the chair...

Chair 'Before' 'After'

Geesh, I don't even know where to begin on this one. I used to think that instead of 'cleaning off the plate', I should just buy a bigger one...well, today I have decided that I can't do that anymore. It's time to 'clean off the chair' to allow a little room to sit! There does come a time when enough is enough. No, I didn't add the handles, just showing the seat part!

These thoughts began with realizing that I am messing up so much on Scentsy orders because my heart is just not into it anymore. Everyone sells it here and I keep buying stuff to keep myself afloat for the next 2.5 years to continue it in the states. Everyday, there is someone else joining here and I am not a competitive person, so I have to let it go. I am so consumed with my 'full time' job Junkin' that it keeps so busy. I also am in the middle of reupholstering a ladies dining room chairs, ear deep in crafts and love every minute of it! As I was beginning to pull the staples out of the next chari, I realized that if I am not using my hands in either creating, painting, or using hand tools, I am not happy. The Scentsy is alot of paperwork and sitting. Everyone knows by now that I DON'T SIT!

This leads to the next random thought...TINKERKELL...I changed her name to mine because I am always busy and tinkering in something. She never sat still either. I just enjoy using my creativity to much. I see something, I make it. If I don't have the materials to do, I order it or go find it somewhere. I also recycle or reuse everything. For example, Jacob needed a Valentines Day box for his class party. I used the box that the Vday cards came in. We covered it in some Vday scrapbooking paper and some stickers....leading to...

I wash my styrofoam plates and bowls. They can be used a few times over before splitting, so I wash them. When it's just the three of us here for dinner, that is our fine china. I recycle picture frames, paper, labels, you name it, I reuse it and create new things out of it.

I just have to realize that there is a time when to much is to much. I need to focus on the few things I am good at and give it my all instead of fanning my self out to far...I have included a picture of the chairs I just did! I finally took the 1 minute to learn how to post pictures to the blog!