My story is pretty common: I began selling my jewelry because I found myself making far more than I needed for gifts. Like any good junkie, I started selling to support my habit, and then the addiction consumed my life. The difference is that this is a healthy, joyous addiction that brings only good things into my life, and has helped set me free to be the best, most self-realized Robin I can be! So no I don't want the cure, thank you. ;-)
In January 2015 I realized that it was not only necessary to change my business name from LooLoo's Box (for reasons I blogged about at http://fantasticality.com/living-the-life-fantastic/14119869) and I am now living in a state of Fantasticality. However, I left the story of LooLoo below, in case you like reading funny cat stories.
Thank you for gracing my shop with your presence, and I hope you find something you never knew you couldn't live without!
~RTD
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As for the name LooLoo's Box? Now THERE'S a STORY!
LooLoo was my childhood cat. A very fat white aesthetically-challenged cat. An ugly neutered MALE cat. His name was actually Casper, but we all called him LooLoo. The name was descriptive, you see... "he's a looloo", as in "he's one strange cat". He wasn't pretty but he had a fabulously funny personality, including a fetish for all things sparkly. Especially jewelry. He was quite an accomplished cat burglar. He would have loved what I’m up to these days and would be stealing wire scraps and shiny bits. And earrings. He is missed.
LooLoo used to stash his treasures behind the family room sofa until a shoe box was left lying at the end of the couch and he promptly began putting his treasures in it. He was then given an attractive wood wine box with a pillow in it which served him well until the end of his days. Yes, he curled up with his treasures, purred over them, slept amongst them. He was LooLoo, and he was magnificent.
When jewelry went missing (once, even Mom's wedding ring!) we knew right where to look; in the family treasure chest - LooLoo's Box.