I wish more people would pay attention to the first line: the pie of tomorrow will be far larger than the pie of today.

This week I targeted small house projects. You know the kind...that idea that's been sitting on the back burner for months (years). It really only needs like 30 minutes to finish but you just can't seem to get around to it.

Yep. THOSE projects.

I'm probably a little strange in that I have a list of 14 separate painting projects for the interior of my house. FOURTEEN! None of them are decorative either. It's all trim and doors and walls. Blah.

I digress. Back to what I actually managed to do.

The picture shows it only half finished as both sides got the rice paper. But I had to split the work between a nap/preschooler playtime effort and an awake baby content on the floor with toys while the preschooler was actually at preschool effort. It took 28 minutes to physically do. But I had to spread those minutes over 3 hours. Kids!

Our front door isn't lacking in the privacy department. It has rather smallish windows at the top that I can't even see out (I'm short but that's not the point). It lets in the brilliant glare from our front light which the flat-screen TV then beams directly into my eyes. At night. When I'm trying to sleep. Ouch.

There you have it. Two boring, basic little projects at Villa Ruth to add a degree of privacy and a little less glare. Plus you get to see the reality of kids--they slow everything way down. Oddly, seeing these tasks timed and recorded with the kid delays makes me feel better about what I do get done in a day.

​But January was disheartening. I'd talked to my knitting friends and my inlaws. Let's just say who you ask advice of is as important as the advice you receive.

Asking non-entrepreneurs about pricing is the wrong move. So is being the lowest priced. When it comes to knitting patterns Free and $0.99 means crappy and poorly put together.

I raised my prices to the $3 mark in early January plus added my patterns to Ravelry. January ended up being my best month with $16.41 in sales after Paypal fees.

I'm the primary caregiver for a 4-yr old and an 8-mo old. That's my full-time plus job right now. 

I'm looking forward to when my youngest hits a year and my oldest enters pre-K4 in the fall. Until then, Ruth Designs will mosie along. I'll be working on some house project, enjoying the outdoors, and writing more in the coming months. 

What do you think about my business that I'm intentionally not growing? Every penny it earns is still all profit. Is that something you could see yourself doing? Would you just look at it and go, "Yeah, ok, whatever," like I have? Or would you try driving it more?