The joys of growing

This past week or so we have been working on our latest new toy, Quick Books! It is a task getting to learn all this at once but it is coming along even though it is slow going with so many things to learn at once! I am not at all a comupter geek so getting the thing to send an e-mail through the program took some toying with tonight but I finally got to send out the first invoice of the year through QB! Now we are almost in business. Its a good feeling when you can work through issues and learn something new like that.
Learning curbs are all over the place right now. We are learning more about venders and which ones work for us and which ones we will have to work on fitting in right for them to work for us later. Shipping...what a trip! It is an adventure every day trying to chose the things that make your business work for you. Shipping was one of those also. There are a lot of choices out there but I find the cheapest and easiest works for me.
While things are crazy here being a business owner just starting out in this economy and with all the task and learning is made more interesting buy working for someone else while I get started. This eats into time I need some days but it also pays the bills and gives me some money (later on) to add to the business. It can be hard at times working on their stuff all day and then coming home to find something I have to take care of right away with mine.
Meanwhile the Network is still growing and I am excited about having some time soon to work on a village again myself. I have not had any time for months now to work on one. The Christmas village is still half done and set up in the studio still. Got to take that down and start on a spring and summer one. Maybe this time I can finish it. I want to get some more tutorials on the Network so I hope this is the season for it.

Coming Soon to Building New Worlds

Over the past few weeks we have been planning out 2009 for our store and made a very change in direct for this year. In keeping with our commitment to bring the best products and service we can to the village community we are happy to announce that soon we will be offering Woodland Scenics products at our store and on our online site also! As those of you know who have come to the Network, we use Woodland Scenics products in our village displays with some wonderful results and now we are going to offer this products to you also. Best yet, if you pre-order with us from now until the end of February, you get a 10% discount on your order. If there is anything that we do not have on our list to order that you want simply e-mail us with your list and we will add it to our order. We will be adding things through out the year for the store and site so check back with us for updates on what we have in stock coming soon! Also take advantage of the discounts.
Along with our commitment to the villager out there we are also getting ready to offer something a little different for 2009. Coming soon we will be offering you a way to wear your village! More details on this will be coming up in another blog so check back with us soon on this interesting bit of information.
While we have been looking at new ways to give the community products and services that you want we have also been looking into video tutorials for making displays and things for your village. We have started accounts on You Tube and Justin TV that are running teasers right now but in the coming weeks we will be to the list. If you have an account on either of those site, look us up under Building New Worlds. We will be posting updates on here, the Network and on Tweeter when those come out also.
With the state of the economy we know many of you are wondering how to keep your collection and your hobby going this year. Over the coming months we will be talking more about this on the Network so, please check in there for some new ways to make things for your village and for ways to cut down the cost of building your displays while making them effective and amazing!
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