How to build a website

Just kidding. I'll let you know when I figure it out.

I knew what I was getting in to when I decided to build this website. Some people will say I am hyper-independent ("some people" includes me). I did a lot of research before choosing Wix as my building platform. As I sit here in bed, at Dark:Early AM, scrambling to blog about how I'm fully aware my website has plenty of non-working links, and confusing/conflicting shipping information, and many MANY things I still need to correct, I'm still confident I made the right choice. Crazy, right?

Low-Income Single Parent...20 yrs exp Marketing & Biz Development...Loves making cool sh*t

...and is known to sometimes have a foul mouth. I probably could have warned you about that by now. I love my Jesus music, and I also love Trina and Eminem. I definitely don't filter much when I talk to God, and what can I say...I'm just real. Anyway, I'm getting off-subject here...

I'm learning how to build this website as I go. Trial and error. Ooooops's to Oooohhhh's. "Awwwww mannnn NOOOOO" to "Oh WOW did that seriously just work???" This is the way I learn...the hardest way possible. A woman once told me that when she graduated as a nurse, her very first job was at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. "If you're gonna start somewhere, start out in Shock Trauma. It can only get easier from there". And I'll be damned, she was right! How can I continuously build, change, and tweak the GirlyTom website without understanding how everything works (and doesn't)? I can't. MY brain doesn't function that way. Not to mention I may or may not also have slight control issues.

PTA...Patience. Tolerance. Acceptance.

I seriously appreciate your patience while I build GirlyTom. I know it takes a significant amount of tolerance when you click on something and it takes you to the original stationary-themed website template that has absolutely nothing to do with earrings, jewelry, or anything remotely close to what you were expecting. I'm also forever grateful that you're accepting my ignorance for website-building. I spent so many years of my life in an industry that almost killed my soul, and for the first time in my entire life, I'm finally finding ME.

My first and most rewarding "job" is being "Mommy" to 2 awesome boys (ok, one is technically but barely, a legal adult now, but still...) My goal is to be the best human being I can possibly be, and to share as much faith and love as I can. My plan is to take everything I've learned (the good and the bad), blog about it...talk about it...and rip the cloak off. Maybe your life will be a little brighter knowing that some of us are just a bit louder and more bold about sharing our real lives. Oh yes, and earrings. My dream is to continue creating my crazy-awesome earrings with hope that they become conversation-starters for you too. You will experience beautiful, intimate, and priceless interactions with complete strangers like I have almost every single day. Let the magic begin.

"Take the risk so you don't live with the regret"

~ Crystal V