So Adorable

So i started this drawing yesterday around three and finished around ....eleven? It's 15 x 21 inches. 

Newest

Classes at Hobby Lobby

So here is the ad that sits at the front of the store on an easel promoting my classes....

(i don't know how to edit pics on bryce's mac...)

And that pink behind it is just the bed it was sitting on.

That's one of my business cards glued to the drawing.. wahoo! i got them today! Becky did an AMAZING job! i LOVE them!!!

and there's the other style of my business cards. :)



so i just glued that silver thing that is actually used on a desk to hold like paper clips or something but i just glued it on there to hold the cards with the info on the back. So they just take one out so they can call me about the classes or e-mail me and sign up!
So you can't really read it but if you could you'd see that i'm scheduled to teach four times per week for the next four weeks!!! I'm really excited!

NEW WEBSITE!!

WWW.ARTLARUE.COM

COME VISIT ART BY CHERISE LARUE TODAY

*WHETHER YOU ARE INTERESTED OR NOT, PLEASE PASS ON TO

 ANYONE YOU KNOW THAT MIGHT BE!

I WILL GIVE A 10% COMMISSION TO ANYONE WHO RECOMMENDS A FRIEND

WHO ORDERS!

(AKA: YOU TELL YOUR FRIEND JILL ABOUT WWW.ARTLARUE.COM 

AND SHE GETS ON AND CONTACTS ME TO ORDER

A DRAWING COSTING HER $210, 

I WILL SEND YOU CASH OR CHECK FOR $21 !!   OR $21 toward a drawing for YOU!)

Progress, yah?

So progress is a good thing, yah?

* I'm having business cards made for my art business, Art by Cherise Larue. (my uncles print shop- Image Pro, located in Cedar City utah. they do an amazing job!!! they also did my wedding announcements). 

* I made flyers with my info on it and three of my drawings featured on it 

* I went around to business around Logan to seeing if they would let me hang it--many said no but a few, ex: Hastings and Stork Landing, let me hang them up. i also put one up on campus and the library has to approve it....they probably won't but here's hoping. 

*Michaels said no but i went to Hobby Lobby and the manager said i couldn't hang up the flyer but i COULD teach classes. ha! I think that's quite funny... They provide the classroom and i choose a date and time to teach a class and i decide how much to charge. I just make a poster to display at the front entrance which they will keep up throughout the week or two before so ppl can sign up. And all i have to do is use Hobby Lobby supplies during the class and mention it a couple times to promote it a little but that's it. I don't have to pay anything and i get to keep all the fees from the students! wahoo! 

So my first class, "Portrait Drawing for beginners" is now scheduled for Wed. July 30th from 10-11 AM!!!

*I also have Google Ads running- four different ones at the moment. They're pay per click so if it ever pops up for you please just type in the URL instead of clicking on it. :) otherwise you'll owe me 15 cents! hahah 

Anyway, any ideas anyone? for advertising?  or...anything?

Oh, as for Mary Kay, i'm not "quitting", as in i'm not selling my product back to the company but will not be Actively selling like I was before. I still have a lot of inventory and will gladly take orders or teach classes etc if requested. :)

Decisions

(Warning: very dangerous emotional possibly PMS-ing female )

I've been thinking alot today about how I spend my time and what things I devote that time to. Bryce and I have talked about it several times recently and tried to agree.... see, I quit my waitressing job at the end of last year to start selling Mary Kay because I, and bryce too actually, felt that it was a good idea---

*I could stop killing my body, especially my back

*I could stop working on Sunday and actually feel like a member of a ward

*I could make my own work hours and work easily around a school schedule and eventually around kids and even work from home.

*I could make more money

*I could do something I was really actually interested in

*I could stop being so frustrated at the end of work (i would always come home in a bad mood because of customers etc)

.....The list at the time was even longer than that... much longer actually but now, after working as a consultant for seven months I just feel frustrated. I've felt frustrated for a long time...since I first signed up actually. But every time, i've just told myself   it'll get better and someone will say yes and someone will want to listen and seem interested, someone will want to buy something, It'll be worth it Cherise, just you watch, just give it a little more time.  But even after seven months, the Yes's and the Interested's are just too few and far between. I have all this inventory sitting in my house waiting for me to sell it but every time i get up in front of a group of women i just feel silly. I feel like they're all just staring at me wondering what in the blank is she going on about and why is this taking so long and why did i say yes to coming to this thing? 

The funny thing is, I know most of the women aren't thinking that at all and I know SO many women do this as a career and love it and succeed and wouldn't quit for Anything. And i know that if i do want to succeed i need to be positive and "play the numbers game" and remember that the more women i talk to the more sales and recruits i'll get. 

But i just don't know if i have it in me. I take things too personally and I'm emotional  (i'm sure NONE of you know That by now- HA!) 

Anyway, the lack of my contribution to our income is making me feel pretty dang horrible considering Bryce is working two jobs-14 hours a day between the two and staying so happy and wonderful and positive. And he still tells me not to worry and that he doesn't mind and that i do more for us than he does because i make our house a home and run all his errands and do everything he doesn't have the time for. 

.... He's so dang sweet i don't know what to do. I want so badly to be able to contribute so much more financially now before kids come along. But a saleswoman is apparently not up my alley.  So...that's where my website came in ... After all, I'm going to school for Art and that's what i LOVE to do. I LOVE to draw for people. I LOVE to create and make things beautiful. I LOVE to see people's reactions and see how happy they are. I LOVE being able to look at and study an adorable baby's face for hours while I recreate them in pencil. i just love it. But I have no idea how to find the people that want that. I want so much to use the one talent i really have that i actually have confidence in and feel I'm good at. But i feel stuck. 

Stuck 

stuck 

stuck.

Unstuck...yes, that's what i need. to be unstuck. Not stuck. mmm.... positive words... positive vibes, successful, happy, faithful. Faithful. 

Yes, faithful.  

I OBVIOUSLY need a journal to put all that negativity up there in.