{the story of Gussy Sews, part I}

By on August 23, 2011
in Faith, Gussy, inspiration, moving to Minneapolis, quitting my day job
zack & maggie_Gussy Sews ruffles

I thought it would be really therapeutic to gather my story // experience as an Indie Biz owner of Gussy Sews and share it here through multiple posts. When my story first began I didn’t know where it would take me, so I didn’t document it in full-detail. November 2011 marks my third year since [...]

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{what’s on my mind? the uncut & fun verison}

By on April 19, 2011
in holidays, quitting my day job, random, the pup
SONY DSC

Lately I’ve been feeling like I need to share more of my personal thoughts, so below is a super random “list” of the things I’m thinking of right now. Most of the time I pre-write my posts and/or take a few days to compile my thoughts before publishing. Not this one, baby! Some of my [...]

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{How I quit my day job.}

By on May 17, 2010
in blog/biz 411, quitting my day job
word art

Earlier this year I started dreaming of making Gussy my full-time job. I knew that one day I didn’t want to work two jobs anymore, I just wanted to be Gussy girl. It’s no wonder that people want to know, Gus, how did you do it? Because c’mon, it is a dream for so many [...]

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{24 hours to go!}

By on May 13, 2010
in quitting my day job, Uncategorized

Guess how many days… Then it’s time for a surprise weekend planned by Zack in celebration of it all. Once 5pm hits on Friday, I’ll be offline {and loving every moment of it} until Monday morning. Then it’s time to work as the exclusive Gussy girl ;] If you come back tomorrow, I’ve got “little [...]

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{decorating for the celebration}

By on May 12, 2010
in inspiration, quitting my day job

I know {from all your comments via Twitter} that so many of you are just achin’ to know who won the impromptu Gussy clutch/wristlet giveaway last night. Her name is Angie H. and she wrote, I love them! I would love to have a clutch! Angie, please check your email for a little note from [...]

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{preparing for next Monday}

By on May 10, 2010
in Gussy, quitting my day job
apartment

This weekend I couldn’t help but reflect on how this week will be my last week of working a traditional day job. I’m going to let that soak in for a minute… OH MY GOSH, IT COULD ALSO BE MY LAST WEEK EVER WORKING FOR SOMEONE ELSE!!! I can’t help but feel emotional about it [...]

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{favorites, cupcakes and stayin’ strong}

By on May 6, 2010
in quitting my day job, random
stars

Since I {sometimes} have so much to say, I thought it would be fun to make a page to serve as a directory for all my favorite posts. Or at least the posts that you read. So there are like 10 in there. For now. And I suppose it would be oh-so helpful to know [...]

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{ebb and flow}

By on May 5, 2010
in Faith, family, quitting my day job
packages

Yesterday was a weird-ish day. Life at the day job continues to beat, but there is hardly any proofreading work and it makes me sad. I made it through the day, came home to start dinner and soon found out Zack wouldn’t be home until later. “Later” turned out to be 8:30. Dinner tasted horrible [...]

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{I did it! I did it!}

By on April 30, 2010
in Faith, Gussy, inspiration, quitting my day job

Ya’ll, I have a soul-bursting announcement… I have put in my 2-weeks notice at my day job, and in 14 days I’ll be working exclusively on Gussy!!! Can you believe it? I’m not sure if I believe it’s REALLY here — that it’s REALLY time to be sharing this, making this public. Now you’re probably [...]

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