From boredom to business in a few months

 It’s funny how things come to pass.

 If I look back to the beginning of this year, I was doing my own thing, much the same as everyone else.

And then we were put into lockdown and told to stay at home. 

I liked it for a while, but then, one day I got bored.

So I went into the garage looking for something to do and decided to paint a sign. I couldn’t think what I should paint, and toyed with a few ideas, finally deciding to paint a sign to try and keep people’s spirits up.

I sorted my brushes out, got my paints together, found some pencils, the surface I was going to paint on and then set about marking the board out.

Once that was done I started to paint the sign, and over a period of days, it was done and ready to display.

I chose to secure it to the tree in front of our house where everyone would see it.

I posted photos on the process and within a few days, some of my Facebook friends started asking if I could do some little projects for them.

I did those and then got the bug again.

But the problem was that it took so long to do each project, I wasn’t getting as much done as I wanted to and after doing a couple of dozen painted pieces, I decided to do the art on my computer instead.

And then someone suggested I ought to try selling some pieces.

I thought about it and over the next few weeks decided to give it a go.

I started producing pieces that I could put into an online store, and when I’d produced almost 50, I opened the store.

Now, 4 months after walking into the garage because I was bored and deciding to paint a sign, I have a new business I hadn’t even considered at the time and one that I hadn’t even planned to do.

I wonder how these last few months would have panned out if I had something to do that day?

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