By the way, there is a Part 1 to this post and it is here, if you need to get to it first!

As I was saying, it is hard work putting one’s self out there! I mean to tell you! Sometimes, as I’m sitting here building my button flower arrangements, I think to myself, “Self! What are you even doing? They aren’t going to come knocking on your door! You have to go knock on their’s!” And by them, I mean shop owners who might like to sell my arrangements.

This is the very tricky part for me. I am very scared of cold-calling people. It’s that very first 10 seconds or so, when you get the person on the phone who you need to talk to, and have a closing window of time to get your schpeal across before they decide they are too busy…that almost happened to me yesterday when I called the lovely shop in Denver!

Not my favorite friend…the phone.

In my world of  kindness and happiness, hearts and rainbows, if the tone of the person’s voice on the other end of the line isn’t full of love and saying to me something like, “Oh! I have dreamed about your call for ages! Finally, it is you! I shall shout it from someplace high, how happy I am to talk to you! How soon can you bring every last one of your beautiful button flower arrangements to my shop where I will sell them, lovingly, and call you next week with the good news that I have run out already and they are in such demand that you must bring more as soon as your hands can make them!” Well…I might automatically think that they don’t like me, let alone my arrangements!

Oh, bother! Was it something I said?

I get so nervous when the phone is ringing on the other end and then I never know for sure what words are going to exit my mouth for them hear. I must remember to be quick and to the point. That only happened once yesterday – the quick and to the point. That’s why I almost lost someone…!

I am encouraged, though, to say that out of the three calls that I made, there weren’t any catastrophes yesterday. Three of the shop associates that I spoke with asked me to please send them an email with photos attached of my work. I can do that…and then I can include a lovely note explaining myself. No one told me, “no.”

So, now I wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. If I knew what was best for me, I would have my husband confiscate my computer and my phone…for the whole weekend! That way, I wouldn’t even be able to check my email 57 1/2 times to see if anyone got back to me! But, I can’t do that. I could. But no. Because what if they like my flowers!!?!