Welp. Thats the lesson McKenzie Merchant and I learned these past two weeks..
"Hard Work Doesn't Always pay off"- as Maddie put it.
Actually I am just kidding. I am a firm believer in working hard to achieve your goals. Lets just say that Kenny and I are not the natural entrepreneurs we wish we were.
We decided that we wanted to earn some money this summer since neither of us have jobs. So our first plan was to make and sell Hair Flowers on etsy and other cute things we make. We got all excited and thought are lives were going to change and "everything would be different" after our "Sweet Pea Designs" business took off. (Oh.. and we named it that because in 5th grade we tried to make a magazine called that.. which was also a failure. So we were trying to bring in back... didn't work. But whatever. Its not like I care) hA.
Anywho.. we made an etsy account, made business cards, a company sign, bought $70 dollars worth of supplies, locked our selves in our "office" for almost a week straight and got to work. Our flowers got progressively better, taking about 30 minutes per one. But... if I had to be locked in a room with anywho McKenzie is certainly the one. We had tons of fun and laughed like crazy at our little company and life.
So.. Lets just skip to the companies fall.... well before we even rose (which was never), we got a spot at the local farmers market. We worked SO hard getting ready for it and were so beyond excited. So that morning we show up in the 324812748 degree heat and well.. lets just say we made a totally of $1.20. Which came from selling a water. Yup. thats right folks we sold nothing! HA. But it was way fun... kinda!. it was just too hot for anyone to come outside. No one was there. So yeah. We still have our flowers on etsy and they honestly are really cute if you want to check them out. If not don't worry about it.. our moms have basically been buying all of them out of pity. But.. we kinda are putting "Sweet Pea Designs" on hold for a bit.
So... After that was a failure, we had some crazy idea to do a little camp for kids. We ended up deciding to do a boys camp and once again could not be more excited. In our heads we had all these fun ideas and everything looked great. We even made camp shirts that said "Counselor" so we were official :) Well... little did we know that when you get a bunch of 8-12 year old boys together it is the definition of craziness. Little boys are MEAN to each other is all I have to say. They were all so nice to us but were trying to kill each other! All our many fun activities that we planned went down the drain and they ended up playing basketball, and wrestled each other. It was very physically and emotional painful on the all of us! hA. I make it sound horrible.. but there were fun moments too. Like at the end of the day when they left! :) Just kidding. I love those little boys! It was good future parent training and got us some extra money!
This was the best group picture we got. A whole three boys got in the picture! HA.
Well... thats all for now. Got to go think of some other plan to earn money. I will let you know how it goes... but I think you can predict it! :)
