just need a breather

Since my last blog post here, I feel like I haven't had even a few hours to sit still and breathe.  I'm sadly in the same frantic and worn-out state of mind that I was in when I decided to start this blog, and I feel like I need its healing properties more than ever now.  However, the next 2 days here might prove to be a nice respite.  I just completed a long and tedious load of marking yesterday so just for now until Friday when I teach a full day of class and pick up another load of assignments to mark, I can focus on the meditative bliss of my writing.

My mind is in a million pieces right now, especially about my perfume business.  I feel as though I have so many good friends for whom I usually rely on, but they seem out of my reach as I have just spent the last few months gone to ground with a gruelling work schedule.  My perfume sales in July were phenomenal and I have it to thank for new friends and a wardrobe full of new oils to play with, but August through September, I saw a whole lot of tumbleweeds.  When I'm desperate for answers, I begin to wonder if maybe I have incurred the wrath of the Gods by arrogantly naming my perfumes after their namesake?  I have a much too vivid imagination for my own good sometimes, but please comment below if you know of a reliable cattle ranch where I may obtain a handsome bovine to sacrifice to the Gods and regain their favour.

at last, my website has come along

The last few months of humming, hawing and mindlessly tedious coding is over!

Here is the official website and store front for Faunfare, including (in my humble opinion) a delectable design, a funky shopping cart system, and a new blog in which I will be posting more about the business side of my creative life (probably). If the thought of me talking about perfumes doesn't totally turn you off, it would mean the world to me if you take a couple of minutes of your time and help me set a good precedence by saying hi at my first blog post there, and letting me know what sorts of things you would like to read there.

I have been reading some gorgeous perfume blogs lately (Providence Perfumes, Perfume by Nature, Smelly Blog, Perfume Posse, Oh, True Apothecary!) and personally, I love how each and every one of those blogs are open, candid and authentic. But before I run off and begin breaking down my pricing or confessing how I cringe every time I hear the words "artisan perfumer", can you please let this ultimately insecure, fragile little soul know whether or not topics like that will more likely turn you off?

I have found online perfume stores before that had me pulling out my credit card until I find their blog and after drowning in their miserable diatribes about how they just can't catch a break, I'm more in the mood for a glass of whiskey and break up songs pumped at full volume from my iPod, than perfume shopping. Where to draw the line between personal and professional?