My December plan

Taking my time until after the new year. My promise, to myself, was that if the baskets did well at the craft fair I'd jump into the website with both feet. If not, I'd sit back and enjoy the holidays.

I'm thinking that I'm going to do away with the larger baskets. Completed - they are not as nice as the smaller ones. I have found that if I want to add the stuffed animals to the smaller baskets I can just tie one to the outside bow with the long ribbons of the bow. I did this for a friend and it was really cute.

I'm planning on using all the smaller Christmas themed boxes to house the teacher gifts for the kids' teachers next week. So they won't be going to waste.

I've gotten some great feedback over the last week. A neighbor gave a basket to a hospitalized friend... the patient called her, a few days later, to thank her for the basket. She was amazed at how every item was useful and she was impressed.

Another co-worker - who never says more than Hello to me - told me yesterday that I was the topic of conversation between he and his wife over coffee yesterday morning. He told me that he told her about the baskets and that he was impressed with the idea because it would take a nurse to KNOW what people really need the hospital. He wished me well.

Another co-worker, from a different department, spent the past two days trying to talk to me. When she finally crossed paths with me in the hallway, she wanted to talk about how I can go about getting the baskets into the hospital. She suggested that I go straight to the top and have a meeting with the administrator and offer to split the profit with the hospital.

Our hospital has a new family-centered resource center, basically a room full of computers that allows family members to access emails and get on-line. This co-worker told me that she knows that the hospital scraped together a small budget to open that room and that I should offer to have the $$$ from orders go to that room - in exchange for allowing my flyers to be placed in the room.

I'm thinking the whole thing over. Frightened of success, of course.

Bottom line - two weeks til Christmas. I'm enjoying it.