{"id":1517,"date":"2008-12-02T14:07:35","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T21:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2014-08-10T12:44:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T19:44:13","slug":"mother-daughter-story-how-to-prosper-in-a-bad-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/mother-daughter-story-how-to-prosper-in-a-bad-economy\/1517\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother Daughter Story &#8211; Prospering in a Bad Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2008-12\/02-coffee-beans.jpg\" alt=\"Coffee Beans\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Carrots, Eggs or Coffee Beans &#8211; Which One Are You?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Have you ever come across a positive, feel-good story that really strikes a chord? You know, the kind of inspirational stories that are so neat that they get forwarded over and over again amongst friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Well just the other day, one of those stories popped up on my computer screen. I decided to share it here because of the tie in with some of the tips I&#8217;ve been posting lately about how to survive and prosper even during a down economy. If you haven&#8217;t already done so, I&#8217;d encourage you to read this article too: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/home-based-jewelry-business-owners-6-tips-to-beat-the-bad-economy\/763\/\">6 Tips For Home Based Jewelry Business Owners To Beat The Bad Economy<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The Mother-Daughter part of the following Carrots-Eggs-Coffee story, is also an appropriate follow up to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/craft-fairs-selling-jewelry-handpainted-wine-glasses\/1408\/\">Jewelry Craft Fair<\/a> article from a few days ago. Remember&#8230; I shared a bit about my own daughters entrepreneurial gourmet dog treats business&#8230; Willow&#8217;s Wonderful Woofies!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Anyways&#8230; without further adieu&#8230; or more correctly&#8230; without further ado&#8230;<a name=\"carrotseggscoffeebeans\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2008-12\/02-carrots-eggs-coffee-story.jpg\" alt=\"Carrots, Eggs, Coffee Story\" width=\"575\" height=\"3083\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I know times are tough right now. Stuff isn&#8217;t selling as well as it did last year. Craft fair sales are down. Stress is up. But how we come through when &#8216;the heat is on&#8217; will depend on what we are made of.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">So what are you made of&#8230; carrots, eggs or coffee beans?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/cindy-sig.jpg\" alt=\"Cindy Lietz Signature\" width=\"114\" height=\"99\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/polymer-clay-tutor.jpg\" alt=\"Polymer Clay Tutor\" width=\"200\" height=\"26\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrots, Eggs or Coffee Beans &#8211; Which One Are You?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2769],"tags":[2768,2647],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pct-show-tell","tag-creativity-mindset","tag-marketing-selling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}