So...we had another impromptu home improvement project this weekend. Johnny and I sat down to eat dinner and watch a TV show together...when all the sudden I heard what sounded like waterfall downstairs. I ran down there to find water spewing out of the main water line that comes into the house through the cement basement wall. The copper pipe with the shut-off valve was completely detached from the wall. Johnny had to go outside to turn off our water from the main valve in the yard. It was, like, 10:30pm so there wasn't much else we could do to fix it. Johnny used the shop vac to get up all the water out of the room and then I spent 3 hours using the carpet cleaner on "dry only" to suck up the water that seeped out on the carpet outside of the room so it would be easier to remove. And basically we've been cleaning up ever since. We've finally gotten all the wet carpet and padding out of the area in front of the bedrooms and in Aubry's room along with the tack strips and baseboards. Johnny removed the drywall under the water pipe but there's more drywall that we'll need to remove. For now we have some Damprid and fans blowing to deal with remaining moisture. AND...I think tomorrow we're going to have to call a plumber. Johnny thought he had it fixed, but it started to have a slow leak so we turned the water back off tonight. We'll call a plumber in the morning to look at it and see what they think. I'm just tired of dealing with it at this point. :P And I know Johnny is getting frustrated. If it's not one thing, it's another!
It definitely was NOT what we had planned for the weekend. I had intended to retake product photos for all my stickers...but I didn't get that done. :P Last weekend I redid my mock-up photos and created some informational listing photos. I've been wanting to fill all 10 spaces for listing photos for awhile...so it felt good to finally get around to it. I eventually want to take a good listing video as well to upload to all my listings. But...that'll be for another day. And in August I'm going to work on my SEO some more...checking tags and titles to make them more effective.
Oh and last weekend I also revamped my pricing a little bit and set up some new promo codes for 25-45% off depending on the size of the order (the larger the order, the bigger the discount). I have them displayed in one of my listing photos, too. So hopefully that will encourage larger orders. My sticker shop really took off in March...and aside from April, my sales have increased each month since. Right now I'm at 154 orders and 180 sales. I've also made sticker sales to 41 states so far! I'm hoping by the end of the year to have all 50 states plus DC. :) The only ones I have left as of right now are DC, Nevada, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Mississippi, West Virginia, Delaware, and Rhode Island.
Well...I'm exhausted so I'm going to go to bed early tonight (at least earlier than usual).