I want to start a business

Okay, not that I expect to make money, but it would be fun to actually know if I could. I want to make gift albums and custom scrapbook albums. I'd also like to give individual beginner classes. My first venture is to make some things for my company craft fair. I'm going to make paper bag albums, a few gift albums and a few altered paint cans.

Its really a chore to start a business. Luckily, I won't need a loan and having a buiness license lets me right off some of my expenses like; a new photo printer to copy pictures for people, ink, adhesive, milage and other cool stuff. But there is a lot of stuff through the local goverment to do. It'll take me a day off work to do just some of it (hopefully we can get it all done.)

I think I could advertise the more affluent parts of town, which would be better because they actually have more money to burn. I could put up flyers or business cards at the local librarys, Micheals, vet offices, YMCA's, and even maybe churches. I also hope to put some cards out at my LSS and ask them to refer people to me.

Now, I just have to convence Hubby that this is a good idea.

Why is it ...........

When you try to make a stand for something, it usually backfires? Here's the situation. Emilee is a cheerleader. I think she was born to cheer (I pray daily its not something I'm pushing her into, but thats another story for another time). She loves to cheer, dance, tumble, the whole nine yards. Since she's only 8 and we really don't have "competive" cheerleading in our area (not affordable anyways), she cheers Jr. Pro football, which is what I did. She started at age 5 as a Mascot and now has moved up to the 9/10 yr old squad, because, we'll they gave her an option because they needed cheerleaders on that squad. She's pretty good, loud, taking gymnastics to learn the tumbling and has natural dance rhythm. The stand I took, not moving her from our "home" park to another park. See, our community park has always been a community park. Not state or Metro owned, but self supported by the community. Then a couple years ago, we let the county take it over, because we wanted to expand and have them brunt the majority of the bills. The deal is the community still do the majority of the up keep, runs the connession stand and has "president and board". The problem is, everyone is tired of the president and those "in charge", but nobody can get them out of office. Our community park has like $20,000 in the bank and we still do fundraisers out the ying-yang to pay for everything. So, every year we lose more and more families because they get tired of dealing with the crap. My husband wanted to go to another park this year, but I refused. We both (hubby and I) played at this park from the time we were 5 till 18. There was politics involved even then, we just didn't deal with it because we were the kids. I really want to have that since of community that we had growing up. But, I just disagree with so much that goes on with the cheerleaders, that I'm almost to the point of saying ..... I wish we had moved. One day maybe I'll grow and back bone and stick up to those crazy controling people!!!