Hey Y'all, it has been awhile. I have been a little busy lately filling all my roles in life--wife, mother, daughter, granddaughter, niece, sister, aunt, daughter-in-law, sister-in-law, friend, small business owner, Facebook entrepreneur, website entrepreneur...I give up--there are too many to list. I admit I have gotten caught up in the Facebook competition for your attention, and more importantly your business. I have been consumed with other businesses "copying" what we do, "stealing" our ideas, "under-cutting" our prices, and wondering if that "home based business" pays licensing fees and taxes like we do. For allowing all of those things to steal from my ultimate personal and business goals, I apologize to all of you.
Now, do not get me wrong, I feel that we should stay on our toes in a business sense. I believe that we should always be creative and stay ahead of the game; And that like "a gentleman's handshake", a business should be built on integrity and honesty. You can not stick your head in the ground like an ostrich and pretend the world is not going on around you. At the end of the day, you should be able to see what makes us different from the rest. But what does make us different? Is it our shiny glitter ways? Our creativity? Is it our love of all things flashy? Or maybe our ability to grab your attention through words and pictures? I hope that these are all things that cause us to stand out from the rest, but I also hope that anyone who walks in our doors or transacts business with us online will get the feeling that there is something altogether different at La Dee Da.
By the way, there is something missing from the second sentence of this post (go ahead and read it again). I listed many of my roles, but the most important one is missing. I'll give you some hints: My life is not complete without it, and if I were to put this role ahead of ALL the others, I would not worry about such childish and silly things as I have in the past. Everything else would just click. Note that I am not saying it will be perfect and rosy, but just that it will click and be purpose-driven. "And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them." Romans 8:28
Did you guess the missing role? Well if you guessed CHRIST follower, you were right. I talk about Him often, and when you walk through our doors you will undoubtedly hear me say His name. If you ask on what our business is founded, I will tell you that first and foremost we desire to be a light for our community. Nothing in my world is complete without Him. But despite it all, I do not always put Him first, before everything else.
I have this favorite t-shirt that reads "I've got Glitter in my veins & Jesus in my heart". I hope that in the future, you will see that this is true of me. I hope that when you look at La Dee Da or me individually that you enjoy our sparkles as much as I do, but that Jesus Christ outshines it all as we radiate His glory.
In the meantime we are knee deep in GliTTeR around La Dee Da with the CHRISTmas season coming up! We hope you leave a little sparkle everywhere you go <3.
In His Service,
Hope
The Glitter Queen of Crazy Town
