We bought our home 9 years ago, when the house was 5 years old. In the past 9 years, we've had to replace LOTS of things...things you wouldn't expect to have to replace in such a "young" home. The latest in the long string of replacements (windows, french doors, furnace, hot water tank...) is our front porch. It was made from cedar, but it's rotting after 14 years.
So, I'm talking with the man who's doing the work (Pierre) and he asks me about the shirt I'm wearing. No, he's not interested in fashion. I was wearing one of my many "Barking Biscuit" shirts....a golf shirt embroidered with my company logo.
This led to a lengthy discussion. It seems that Pierre and his wife have bought my biscuits, and have been at agility events where they use my biscuits as prizes (they are both judges for agility). What a small world!
For all you budding entrepreneurs, my advice to you is to have your logo digitized so that you can have your logo put on the clothes you wear. It's not expensive (my logo costs $5 to embroider on anything I want), and it's one of the best marketing tools you can invest in. I can't tell you the number of times that people have asked me about my business just because I'm wearing a shirt with my logo stitched on. I'm my own walking advertisement!
Speaking of stitching...a bit from my personal life...
I recently joined a Pay It Forward (PIF). Sometime in the next 10 months or so I'll be receiving a little something from
Joy. In return, I promised to PIF to three people. Well, I've sent my little somethings to
Angelique and to
Linda. I had lovely emails from them both, who loved what I sent. Here is Angelique's gift:
For some better photos, you can check out her blog entry here. The flowers represent Angelique and her husband. I revived my rusty embroidery skills for these projects.
And here is Linda's gift:
The colours aren't quite right in these photos...I was lazy and used my scanner instead of taking photos of them. My scanner dulls down the colours, and I'm not sure how to change the settings. There are 3 flowers around Linda's L...two flowers to represent Linda and her husband, and one orange flower that represents their daughter.
I have one PIF left...Corline, I'm working on it!
3 comments:
I absolutely love my PIF gift! Linda and I each called each other after we received ours...we were both so amazed. The personal touch with the flowers is just beautiful!
So beautiful. Jeepers Sara you sure are hand with some floss!
Veryy Interesting article, you make some interesting points.
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