Amaya and Ming: Breakfast slideshow

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The third installment of Amaya and Ming. It's breakfast time! Hope you enjoy.

A different family will be featured starting next week. Come back and join us for more episodes of "All in the Barbie Families"

Slideshow Amaya and Ming: Bedtime

Continuing on with the Amaya and Ming episodes. It is now bedtime after those wonderful baths. Mommy can't wait. Bedtime is one of the highlights of the day. Dad is there to give his support. Luckily the bath always relaxes the girls and makes bedtime more enjoyable.

Things to note while viewing the show:
1) The house is going through some remodeling, so you may notice missing doors and crown
molding.
2) Ming's (the three year old) bedroom is just about complete. Mommy and Daddy can't wait
for her to move into her big girl room! So for now she is bunking with mommy, daddy, and
Amaya.

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Amaya and Ming at Bathtime

Here is a slideshow I created of one of my Barbie families. I've been trying to post this for about a week now with another slideshow program I purchased. Unfortunately, I couldn't get it to post to the web. Talk about frustrating. So I am temporarily using this program. Wish me luck with the other program. I have plans to post many other slideshows in the future. Check out Amaya and Ming at bedtime and breakfast.

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Hats and Handbags and other Accessories

As a business entrepreneur sometimes you have to work to make sure ends meet. Well I have a day job, that I absolutely love. I hand make hats, handbags, shrugs, cuffs, feather flowers, and many other accessories for a company called Because We Can and Necessities. Our products are very unique. Sometimes I pinch myself as I am sitting there being able to do what I love, CREATE!

The picture has some of the 2009 handbag line.

Check out the website, http://www.necessitiesonline.com/to see all the other products we have available. Right now we only offer products wholesale. If you are interested in buying retail, send me an email. I have almost finishing designing the retail site.

Website is up and running!

Well I wasn't expecting to create a website today, but that is just what I did. It is not finished yet, but I got a good start. Check it out at www.vansdolltreasures.com. I used the free Weebly at the moment. I just wanted to get something up and running without spending a pretty penny. I purchased my domain name from www.godaddy.com, of course. I've been buying domains from them for the past few years. I must say I was pretty impressed with Weebly.

Porcelain Creations

Barbie Furniture

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Setbacks

Had a few setbacks. My computer decided to experience problems. just as I was getting the business up and running. That is the most frustrating thing. To think that all your information is lost for good. To try to figure out how to afford a new computer. Talk about stress!

Well it all turned out okay. My computer apparently needed a break. After a weekend off, it decided to work again.

I added more items to my Etsy account. I am now up to 8 items. Yeah! I only have 92 more to go. I understand that once you get to 100 items your business does a lot better. I am getting more people looking at my items, but not enough. I have to do a little marketing. I have some ideas. My goal is to put some of them in play this weekend. By the way, I did get my banner up. I am really happy with it. It features furniture and dolls.