Soap, Silk and so much more
There is a hat for every reason… baseball caps keep the sun out of our eyes when we are playing the game. Straw hats cover the gardener working to pick weeds, till their garden and attend to the vegetable plants. And there are sunday …
Until the early 1980s almost every bathroom had a few bars of soap… commercially made, bought in bulk from the grocery store. TV commercials advocated virtues to using these bars of soap, and fed us a myth that if we used that soap we would develop special qualities…. beyond clean and fresh. It was the heyday of brands like Irish Spring, Dial, and Dove. Bar soap dominated the market, and we all used them. Then it happened – the advent of the liquid soap movement, and the antibacterial soap movement saw the ever expanding shelf displays of bottled liquid soap, of antibacterial soap. The media whipped a frenzy of thoughts about how much bacteria was out there, and how we need to sanitize, to bomb our skin with antibacterial soaps. And we did.
Here we are on December 12th, and the holidays are coming quickly. I have not written a post in some time, and wanted to just bring updates on what is happening with Images in Bloom Studios. As you may or may not know the building …
I have to tell you a story – a true event. Saturday we had planned to be set up for a small art street sale. Our venue was in front of a not quite opened restaurant, in downtown Willoughby. Steve’s brother and his wife had …
Jobs! One thing you can certainly say is when you have a small business there are a lot of things to do, and seldom enough time to accomplish them all. When we began the business one point we both firmly agreed on was that we want to offer jobs for others, and a way to lift up others. In our grand plan we will have grown to have a sizable work force accomplishing much of the work.
Businesses take work and a lot of skill sets, willingness to learn, willingness to risk. And risk sometimes goes south. So why have a business? What attracted us to what we do, and why should you consider starting one? In today’s blog we are looking at our why, and hope we encourage you to find yours.
Over our 11 years in business there have been moments that pressed us out of measure, and we initially wondered why these challenges came along. There was not room for the why – but instead we needed to press on. But something interesting came of the challenge…. challenge brings growth…. and we pivot to adjust to the challenge. In the pivot came discovery…. and in discovery we improved our process, our product, and our outlook. The concept of silver linings speaks not just of a good outcome for what initially looked like an impossible challenge…. but it speaks of the mindset that is willing to look beyond the challenge and ask one question – how?
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