my ultimate dream job
It's a well known and documented fact that I am a freak about Christmas. My friends know this, and prepare themselves for the endless happy Christmasness that generally begins, well, about this time every year.
It's also a well known and documented fact that I am a web freak. No other reason to explain why else I would have all these personal web sites. On top of my day job.
Combining the two is the ultimate dream for me. Maybe a Christmas decorating business with a web site on the side. Maybe a Christmas web site with a decorating business on the side.
I wish the market could bear the kind of saturation I'd love to bring to it. A full-out, Martha-Stewart like web site with decorating tips but all very chi-chi. Not just crafts, though I would have a few. Mainly full-out decorating features.
Features on collecting Christmas treasures - one on some of the different collectible ornaments, one on Coca-Cola Christmas collectibles, one on collecting Santas (my personal collection has over 36 to date... I'm getting there slowly!), you get the idea. Ideas on proper floral arrangements, how to start collecting a Dickens village, Christmas art and vintage postcards.
Reviews of new products as they come out - like when icicle lights suddenly rocked the world a few years ago. Every year there are new, great decorating products.
Trends and retrospectives on decorating trends in history. Interviews with talented professionals - like the ones who did the White House last year (oh, yum).
And of course, there would be a store. Such an online store you could not imagine, but oh I can.
Maybe a spin-off television special. Books. Interviews with Christmas magazines. Maybe my own magazine.
One day, maybe I could get asked to decorate the White House for Christmas.
Imagine getting paid for that. Like I said, my ultimate dream job.
2002.09.19 09:45 PM
any ideas on a floral website that doesn't sell flowers per se?
I too like to dream!