People have often complimented me on the things that I make: "Oh, you should start a business!" Or "I love that necklace, where did you get it from?" But somehow, I've never quite believed them. Even when a customer is handing over a wad of cash to buy my products, I've often thought to myself- they're just doing it to be nice.
It's so easy to have an idea or a dream and talk yourself out of doing something about it. But...
I've decided this is the year to believe in myself and the gifts that God has blessed me with. A year for laying aside my fear of failure and for chasing the ideas that I feel God has placed on my heart.
A friend from church recently gave a word at a prayer meeting. I can't remember it word for word, as I was holding a squirmy toddler at the time. But basically he said: 'This is not a year for plodding like penguins, getting cold feet. This is a year for soaring like eagles and doing what God has told you to do.'
So this is me taking my first tentative flight as an eagle and announcing my new business: Little Ruby Makes.
I've changed the name of the business, because I've changed, life has changed, and because my little Ruby is one of my greatest sources of inspiration.
I sell cards, jewellery and prints with character and with meaning. I have designs that I've done already and that you can buy 'off the peg' as it were, but generally my products are for personalisation.
You could buy a card with the birth details of a friend's baby on.
A necklace with your child's drawing on it.
A framed print of a verse or quotation that lifts and inspires you.
Here's just a little taster of things to come. Watch this space.
