In these troubling times I've found it necessary.....no. That's not it at all. I want to make a little money. That's all. I want to have a part time job that I enjoy and I want the satisfaction of having my own income. I've tried several directions. I actuall got hired by a landscaping firm, but just when I was supposed to start doing the design work this recession hit full steam and things have really slowed down. I'll be doing some work for that company next spring, for sure. 

I had this idea about baking bread. You can read all about it. I've been working on my web site for a whole week now. 

Building the site was the easy part. It's a lot like a blog. The hard part has been getting the dang thing launched onto the world wide web. First of all I went out to Apple for a one hour tutoring session on how to build a web site with their iweb program. I love my Macbook computer. I love Apple! Things are so easy. I printed my own business cards last week and I've done all my bread labels. 

Anyway, my tutoring session went great. I realized that I had to buy my domain name. I went to a place called godaddy.com and typed in melindashoaf.com. Fortunately for me no one had bought my name! Isn't that amazing? No one in all these billions and billions of people on this planet wanted a website named www.melindashoaf.com. I bought that name and I bought shoafsloaf.com but I haven't activated that domain yet. (ain't I somethin' talking about domain, internet provider, sites, CNAME, and all that stuff). I won't know what half of it means in two weeks from now, but I sure know what they mean now. whew! This has been a project!

I've decided to name my bakery Shoaf's Loaf. That's what you gotta do, right? If your name rhymes with loaf, right?

This is the way I figure it. I can sell bread at the Farmer's Market once a week. I can make as much money doing that as I could with a part time job working 20 hours a week. I don't have to buy new clothes or have a car and I'll be doing my baking at a commercial kitchen right down the street from me.

I dont' have to invest any money in it except for the 50 lbs of wheat and labels and bags and stuff. I all ready have my equipment. 

I'm planning on sending out emails, emails to everybody I have an address for to let them know about the site. I'm planning on baking bread for the holidays and delivering it. You can order it on line and have it delivered just in time for the holidays! Even gift baskets!

It beats sitting at a desk. I'll keep you posted. In the mean time check it out. www.melindashoaf.com 

And don't worry about my blog. It won't turn into an advertisement. I'll be back, writing about how depressed I am in no time.