Gettin' by With a Little Help from My Friends

                                                                                          

I thank my lucky stars for having Jill as a friend. (Pictured with her darling Lilly).  She and I met shortly after I started the little business I previously posted about. A mutual friend, Donna, who owned The Iron Dove in Plattsburg, MO, knew I was trying to find items to sell in my booth that were different from what was offered at the local wholesale gift market (and the other five vendors in the shop) .  She suggested I give Jill a call and check out the soaps and potpourri she created.  I did just that and I guess I pretty much knew, right off the bat, that she was someone I would like to get to know better. She was very interesting to talk to, a lot more knowledgeable than me about running a small business, AND she had a web site!!!  I was drooling with envy and confusion---COMPUTERS!#??? e- gads! What a woman! (Remember, our first meeting was about eight years ago and I was totally computer clueless and computer fearful---she can tell you that I still am).

Jill eventually left the wholesale side of her business and officially opened her Bittersweet Boutique on the Square in Liberty, MO.  Her retail storefront was darling!  Her distinctive decorating and display styles were perfect matches for her very own lines of fabulous bath, body and home products. Over the years, I made numerous trips to her shop and each time we would talk and talk and talk.  A friendship formed.

Yessiree, only a friend would spend an entire day helping me (and I must say with a staggering amount of patience on her part) set up my blog.  While I'm still struggling with learning how to "click" and "drag" and "insert" and "save" and all of the computer terms it takes to actually POST on a blog, I can say there is no way I would be this far in my newest adventure if Jill, my Bittersweet Buddy, hadn't been so generous with her knowledge and time.  Now that I really study that smile on her face (featured in the above photo), I'm thinking maybe it's just a big old look of relief.  After all, the thickheaded "blogger-wanna-be" was finally about to get in her car and leave!  Actually, I think her eyes looked a little glazed over.  Hmmmmm, so do Lilly's.

Thank you, Jill, for all of your help----ooooh, and the delicious lunch, too.  And Lilly, thank you, as well.

Dana

Comments

[RHoda]

Hi, Dana, welcome to blogging! It's a wonderful journey, so enjoy.

Love your new shop name, as I'm a bunny lover too. That's a great story & I wish you the best with it all.

Rhoda

[Susan]

Best of luck with your new blogging adventures! (I think Jill is the sweetest, too.)

[Jill]

Dana,

I'm your blushing friend now!
How sweet of you to blog about Lily and I.
I had tears in my eyes as I read.

Hey, great blog by the way!

Jill x00

[Maria Botelho]

ok, now really I must get going...but i had to say...how great that you have such a friend to get you going...

I'm still learning in baby steps! computers & me...ugh! so hand in hand I started my etsy and my blog for people to learn more about the art and about my family and me behind the art... sometimes, especially in the beginning, I would think *What was I thinking!!*

but it has been fun & I do love meeting bloggers like you!

Blessings & Aloha!