I'm Thinking... Etsy Shop?

Last Saturday the kids and I spent a good part of the day rummage sailing.
Oh how I do LOVE Saturdays in the Summer.
They are the best.

My kids love going with me and especially love getting their $2 they earned during the week
to spend on whatever they want--although now I need to go back to enforcing my
no stuffed animals rule as last week I forgot before they had each picked out the
"cutest, most adorable stuffed animal, mommy".
But anyway-

I found these three awesome blankets last week while thrifting/antiquing/rummaging.

Check em' out.

So these blankets have me thinking again about opening up a little online shop.

I am just thinking, still in the thinking stage, but thinking a little bit more about it than

 I have before.

 A little more seriously about it.
Because really, if I don't I am going to have to stop shopping all together or a divorce
 might be in my near future...that or a Hoarders-style intervention.
Yikes.

I have thought about this off and on, just briefly, and a few people have even suggested

 that I should...

but I have never given it serious thought because I always dismiss the thought almost

 as soon as it pops into my head.

Even though it is something I think I might actually want to do...and really enjoy doing.

Why is that?

My first thoughts go something like this ::

*Oooh, if I had my own shop I could sell all the things that I love

*If only I could shop rummage/thrift antique stores and re-sell these things in my 

own shop as a job that would be so much fun....

Then my next thoughts go something like this ::

There are a million shops out there, what would I have to offer that is any different?

I am way too un-organized to run a shop

It may not work out, why waste my time?

Why do I do that?

I hate that I do that to myself.

That I dismiss something like this before I even stop to really think about it.

I cut myself off(in my head) before I really even explore the idea.

Do you do this, too?

I am sure I am not the only one.

I do this in other areas of my life, too...and I don't like it that I do, not at all.

Whenever my kids talk about what they wan to "be" when they grow up I always 

encourage them and tell them they can do anything they want to do and be anything

 they dream they want to be.

I always remind them that they can change their minds a lot, even when they

are adults and not to ever listen to anyone that says they can't do it.

I wonder why I am not as encouraging with myself?

Why do I discount my own abilities and possibilities before I give myself a chance?

Although it may not be someone else telling me I can't do it, wouldn't be good at it, 

or that I might fail, but it's ME telling myself these things and I am listening to it and
 kind of believing it, too.

That's dumb.

{Remember Yo-yo sandals?!
Eeek. I got two pairs for 25 cents each last week at the church rummage sale.
I remember my mom wearing rainbow Yo-yo's in the early 80's with a blue terry
 cloth dress and panty hose}


So this week I am going to think about the possibility of this.

Maybe make a list, look into it a little more before I tell myself no.

Do a little research and get a better idea for what it would really involve.

And I am going to shut up that little voice in my head that says I can't.

And you know what?

I may decide that I do not want to open up a shop after all,  and that's okay.

As a matter of fact, I think that's just fine as long as I give myself the opportunity to really

 make the decision instead of telling myself no first.

Right?

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Now we are off to see Puss 'N Boots at the theater, I am kind of cursing myself for
even telling the kids about it. Not my favorite movie, but they are excited, so...
off to the theater we go.
Happy Thursday everyone, have a great day.