So here we are nearly a month into the new year with little to no new content… however I do have big news to report.

Over the past month I have been doing a lot of research on properly establishing a small business and I have now provincially and federally registered my business… Thursdayschild.ca is now legit! I’ve also been working on my doll. The prototype of my 1/2 size fashion doll is complete and I have submitted a class proposal to CreativFestival – my fingers are crossed & I hope they pick it up for the fall. They’ve also asked about a fabric painting class, so I’m back to the drawing board on that one.

I’ve also been super busy trying to find wholesale suppliers for my favorite fabrics, threads, needles, etc. With so many late nights (doing price comparisons and learning about importing) all of the time spent on the computer has left my eyes raw and begging for rest. But of course there is no rest for the wicked!

Currently I’m working on securing a stuffing license from the TSSA and looking for summer craft fairs. I’m considering doing Kempenfest with a cousin, but we’ll see – only time will tell. Until then, we’re off to a good start to 2011.

As you can see I didn’t manage to follow through on my New Years’ Resolution. I haven’t had much I could talk about, hence no blogging. Now I’m at the end of my museum contract and about to launch into an epic job search and hopefully more than a little crafting so I have to figure out what the heck I’m going to do with this website in order to get it working for me. I’ve picked a new theme that is much more professional looking however it has very little documentation that I can find so please be patient as I work this one out.

Things you can expect to see on this site in the upcoming months:

• a list of new and exciting sewing and fabric embellishment classes
• progress photos of my new dolls and accessories
• a link to a brand new Etsy site… with stuff for sale! (I never managed to get around to that before)
• and much more I haven’t thought of yet.

Fingers crossed and I should have to ball rolling on this before Christmas

~*xo*~ Kimberley

So its that time of year again to make the resolutions that I wholeheartedly intend to keep, but don’t have the will power to adhere to.

Please don’t moan, but this year is <em>really different</em> though… now that I’ve graduated and I’m only working part time in the first quarter of the year, I have time to spend working to implement my resolutions.

So what are these lofty goals?…

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You’d think that in the last 6 terms of university and umpteen years of being an adult that I would have learned to dot my ‘i’s and cross my ‘t’s… uh, nope! This morning I figured that it would be a good excercise to go back and make sure that I had all of my degree requirements in order before starting classes tomorrow. What I discovered was that I was 0.5 History credits short of graduation… one more class!

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So a week or so ago a group of us were poking around in the basement at work… doing a little pre-fall cleanup when we came across a part of the museum’s old disaster preparedness kit. In this kit there was an old polaroid camera which elicited some fond reminiscences amongst those of us who fancied ourselve photo-geeks. Of course polaroid technology has sadly gone by the wayside, but there is still a way to recapture the fun of waiting for those dark, old, odly tinted photos to develop online!… the Poladroid Project!

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Sorry, I’ve been so quiet… it’s been quite the summer – an emotional roller coaster from start to finish. Now I’m in the home stretch and I feel I can start blogging about it without getting myself trouble. In the last four months I’ve started a new professional development course, re-kindled a love of my local museum, broken my arm, sewn nothing, cleaned my room and taken more than one vacation in my mind… all of which need to be well documented.

I’ve also polished off a few books that I have yet to review, but before that happens I have one more co-op report to finish (hopefully by the end of the week).

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So, as I have mentioned before, I’m in school until December when I expect to complete my BA. After that I’m at a bit of a loss what to do, because money is short and a Masters seems so far away. What I’ve been thinking of is completing a Certificate in Museum Studies with the Ontario Museum Association… cheaper than a Masters and the courses are shorter and can be fit around a work schedule. I will do a Masters at some point in time… I like school too much not to, but I can’t sit still waiting for that to happen.

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