{"id":26,"date":"2008-06-28T04:54:03","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T11:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psychiccottage.com\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2008-07-14T14:34:57","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T21:34:57","slug":"signs-swans-and-serendipity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.psychiccottage.com\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Signs, Swans and Serendipity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone. Welcome Back to the TPC Blog.<\/p>\n<p>I know what you are all thinking why Swans I thought she was a Goose. This Swan adventure has nothing to do with my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychiccottage.com\/blog\/?p=11\"><strong>Goose Syndrome<\/strong><\/a>. This has to do with my new sign at my office.<\/p>\n<p>I love marketing and signs and anything that is cute. Ideas are always jumping in my head like popcorn so I really should have had marketing as my mundane job. I think I would have been good at it. I guess it&#8217;s never too late but I&#8217;m way too tired to take on another job of the mundane type. I know boring&#8230;. does she ever stop complaining this one?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway&#8230;..my sign is the best sign. It is so beautiful. If you get a chance pop by and see it at my office at 19 Scugog Street in Bowmanville. I&#8217;m only there by appointment so I probably won&#8217;t be there to say hi but you can see my sign nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>One of the other tenants offered me this sign spot and I was totally elated. Like how cool is that right? Opportunities don&#8217;t come our way like that every day.  People can be so sweet can&#8217;t they. Thank you Heather for letting me use your sign. (Heather operates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bowmanville.com\/index.php?option=com_sobi2&amp;sobi2Task=sobi2Details&amp;catid=50&amp;sobi2Id=39&amp;Itemid=5\"><strong>Advanced Nails <\/strong><\/a>in Bowmanville.) You&#8217;re the best.<\/p>\n<p>Given this opportunity I then went out to try and find someone to design my sign. I don&#8217;t know how many people have ever tried to buy a sign but it was a hard adventure. I thought it would be so easy and everyone would be as excited as I was. Not the case.  Most people would just say send me the size and what you want and we&#8217;ll give you a quote. <em>Hello<\/em>? If I wanted to do all the work I wouldn&#8217;t be calling you. I thought maybe I was repeating a pattern like when I told my friend Kaleigh what I wanted in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychiccottage.com\"><strong>website <\/strong><\/a>she said Sharon &#8220;Million Dollar Idea on a Beer Budget&#8221; (considering I don&#8217;t touch alcohol this was making me a bit nervous). She was right but eventually with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mouthmedia.com\"><strong>Mouth Media&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> and my gifted illustrator&#8217;s help (who are both the best in the business by the way) it was accomplished. It&#8217;s probably a little complicated for most people who zoom through life at lightening speed and don&#8217;t have the patience to wait for the butterfly but personally I love it and wouldn&#8217;t trade it for the world.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think I will ever learn to stay on topic in my blogs?<\/p>\n<p>(One more diversion here&#8230;I think my friends, family and husband are happy I have a blog that way I don&#8217;t have to bore them with my stories. I see their eyes gloss over they aren&#8217;t fooling me.)<\/p>\n<p>So my heart is broken as time is a wasting and no sign. Not even a prospect. Like I always do I surrendered it up and asked for the right person to come to me. A few days later I&#8217;m talking to my sister-in-law Kimmi and I said just thinking out loud I need a sign. I&#8217;m so frustrated. Kimmi said try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swansigns.com\"><strong>Swan Signs<\/strong><\/a> they&#8217;re the best.<\/p>\n<p>Yippy! I was so excited because I knew that this was the one. I called and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swansigns.com\/about.htm\"><strong>Carol<\/strong><\/a> was so wonderful. She surely went out of her way to make everything work. She went to the site a few times. Did all the measurements. Put in the sign. Coached me with what to put on. I even ordered one for my upstairs window which fit perfectly! They are both gorgeous.<\/p>\n<p>The funny part was that she quotes James 3:17 from the Bible on her site which is a beautiful verse by the way. As soon as I read that I thought oh great I find the perfect person and she&#8217;s going to not deal with me because I&#8217;m a psychic (I think I have past life witch issues here) and she&#8217;s like in the first email. I&#8217;d love to do your sign.<\/p>\n<p>As my friend Heather always says when something happens &#8220;God is Good&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Now The Psychic Cottage has the best signs that ever existed. I even heard my son say to someone &#8220;Mom&#8217;s sign is sick&#8221;. At first I thought oh no my sign is sick and then I remember&#8221; sick is good&#8221;. Oh ya Mom is cool for once. (It must be hard to have a Psychic for a Mom. My son said the other day &#8220;Mom I think your Seratonin is too high and that&#8217;s why you see things&#8221;. Kids gotta love them. )<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my blog quote:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Serendipity is putting a quarter in the gumball machine and having three pieces come rattling out instead of one\u2014all red.&#8221; &#8211; Peter H. Reynolds<\/p>\n<p>Amen Brother on that one.<\/p>\n<p>Until we meet Again, Sharon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone. Welcome Back to the TPC Blog. I know what you are all thinking why Swans I thought she was a Goose. This Swan adventure has nothing to do with my Goose Syndrome. This has to do with my new sign at my office. I love marketing and signs and anything that is cute. 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