Ryan Fields

Custom made corporate jewelry

One of my friends owns a local small business and he likes to advertise his business every single chance he can get.  He has magnetic signs on his vehicles, runs ads in the local papers, has his own website, goes to trade shows and gives away little trade show “giveaways” with his business name and address on the items.  He has his business logo put on shirts, hats, and jackets for himself, his family, his friends, and his employees to wear. 

Most recently he tells me that he has ordered some corporate jewelry with his company logo to hand out to people that he thinks might wear it.  He showed me some pictures of the types of things that he is going to be ordering, and I thought that they looked pretty cool.  He is planning to order some tie tacks, some lapel pins, some necklace pendants, and some pierced earrings.  He is really going all out with this advertising campaign!  I am expecting that he is planning on having these to hand out for several years!

He is ordering the jewelry through AJ’s Jewelry, a company that does custom jewelry.  That company says that if you design it, they will create it!  Their website address is www.youdesignwecreate.com.

Spring cleaning galore

What a winter this has been!  I take care of several properties for different people who have asked me over the past few years to do it.  They are getting old.  Unfortunately, every one of their lawns ends up being out by the road.  Well they plowed the road, it seems, like a hundred times this year, as well as sanded it.  We know where the sand ended up!  What a mess!  Some of these lawns I’ve had to work at six or eight hours, meaning with my schedule, I only get one done a weekend; that’s the only time unless I sneak in an hour or two sometime during the week to get these done!

I’m glad I only have three or four!  But I can tell you, each lawn is taking me at least three times as long to clean this year as any other year!  I know I get paid for it, but boy it is hard on the back!  And this means raking, fertilizing, and reseeding a lot of areas.  It seems that the more it snowed, the further in the snow plow set his blade, tearing up the lawn, which I have to fix.  So cleaning is so much harder than any other year.