The NEXT Kate Spade or how Cathy’s Brain works Exponentially!

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Well, I kept hoping that Friday’s post would appear by magic, but no luck there.  Today’s post is a quick look into how my mind works.  Be scared, be very scared.  As mentioned in this post, I am a scientist in my real life.  My “pretend” life is a different story.  This is going to be a meandering tale so stay with me please.

A year or so ago, the company where I work was sold.  We were told that within two years our jobs would be going south to Texas.  Well that spurred me on to think about the future.  I decided I needed a hobby to carry forward into retirement.  Making leather bags was what I chose.

 

 

I know, golf or bridge would have been easier.  So off I go, merrily making bags.  Of course, I never thought past MAKING the bags, like what to do with them afterwards.  A 100 bags later, everyone I knew (and some ladies I did not know) started saying “STOP CATHY, we do not need anymore %^$*@ bags”.  And the same nice ladies said I needed to sell my bags.  Well duh, that had not occurred to me and I had to think about that.  By thinking about that, I mean I jumped right in.

So, I opened an ETSY shop (here) and off I went.  That lead to a need to learn photography, marketing and coming up with a store name.  Sheesh, all I wanted was a hobby.  So, as any scientist would do, I researched the heck out of this ETSY stuff.  I bought books and more books, scoured the internet and drank heavily!  Well, those dang books said I needed a BLOG!  Of course that entailed buying more books and even more books, more googling and a trip to buy more whiskey.

And I haven’t even started on the photography angle that is needed for blogging and for selling bags…of course, that is obvious!!  I also do not own a camera!

After all my research, I decided to enroll in the THE BLOG CLASS.  That turned out to be a fabulous decision, a great class and very patient teachers!  Thank you Emily and Ryan.

So, now I have my hobbies, my job is going south and I am moving to the next phase of life.  So let’s get to the reason I am writing this post.  I have sold two bags on ETSY.  Since I think exponentially, that becomes 20 bags, then 200 bags, then 2000 and so on until….I get to 2 million bags pretty quickly.  Of course, I have to make those bags,

keep up this “bleeping” blog, learn photography, design said bags

 

and generally buy a lot more whiskey.  But next thing you know, my bags will be splashed all over PINTEREST and just like that, I have become the NEXT KATE SPADE!  It could happen, she is from Kansas City and so is my husband.  Kate Spade went to Notre Dame de Sion all -girl Catholic prep school and so did my sister-in-law.  She is young and cute and I am …Okay, let’s just say this one doesn’t fit, shall we?

So, there you have it.  Cathy’s brain works in mysterious and strange ways, BUT I keep going forward and buying more whiskey!

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