I have been selling resources online now for nearly a year and it has been exciting, terrifying and very dull in equal measures and sometimes all at the same time! With that in mind here is a light-hearted look at the nine emotional stages of selling our resources online.

Stage one: Interest

• You find out about online selling from a friend or a post online and your interest is peaked, "ohh, I could do that" you think to yourself.

Stage two: Excitement

• You do a bit of research and before you know it you have found Deanna Jump! "I'm going to be a millionaire!"
• You set up your store and wait!

Stage three: Panic

• Why would I do this? NO one is going to buy my products what do I know?

Stage four: Celebration

• First sale! People are buying things!
• First feedback! People love me! I'm fabulous.

Stage five: Optimism

• My sales are climbing, I could really make something of this
• There's a sale on! My sales are looking really healthy
• Working out how much you would need to give up work

Stage six: Reality check (sometimes coupled with summer)

• Oh, no I'm not giving up work just yet.
• Where has everyone gone????

Stage seven: Distraction

• Life gets in the way, busy, busy, busy.
• Your store takes a bit of a pause

Stage eight: Back on track

• Why did I leave it so long?
• Look at all these fantastic ideas I have! I must get working!

Stage nine: The cycle

• repeating stages seven and eight over and over...

(In your best ring master voice)

We are in for a treat, our one and only education secretary has many opponents willing to take her on. Tonight she faces her biggest threat…

HERSELF!

In the red corner we have Nicky Morgan, education secretary, helper of the disadvantaged, leader of the new deal for teachers and in the blue corner we have Nicky Morgan, figurehead for British values, inspiration to all back trackers everywhere!

Red corner Nicky comes out swinging with an interview where she takes the strong view point of “We are NOT going to say every school must be an academy”(4:11) followed quickly by “we want schools to make decisions for themselves (4:39)”, this is swiftly countered by Blue corner Nicky jumping in with her white paper which forces all schools into academy status, for their own good (9:28)!

Oh but Red corner Nicky isn’t done. She packs a punch with her quote that “Parental choice is a large part of our system. We will listen to parents.”(0:29) Blue Nicky isn’t down yet she counters with “The system takes too long, listening to parents and taking appeals, we are putting a stop to that!” (paraphrased)

Moving on from the academy debate Red corner Nicky insists “We will not have a selective system (47:21).” But Blue corner Nicky is over there sliding in a lovely new grammar school and she follows it up in quick succession, with her academies being about to select their own pupils!

Wow it’s an exciting fight this one! Blue corner Nicky launches an attack with the number of state schools (0:33) in special measures, Red corner Nicky caught off guard is unable to counter (1:50) in the same interview, she fumbles around when asked how many academies are failing….. “erm, errr, I’m not going to go into that, I don’t need to discuss numbers…” Oh dear, tut, tut Red corner!

Red Nicky isn’t out for the count yet, she has another trick up her sleeve with the SATs. Red Nicky thinks testing 7 year olds (0:40) is the way to make them smarter! She believes it is the best step forward! Bravo Red corner Nicky, I don’t know how Blue corner Nicky will counter that! Oh there she is! With her quote on how testing isn’t going to make children brighter "teach them in the way they learn best!" (2:26) Yep that was a solid hit there!

 It seems that whatever happens, a Nicky is going to be on the ropes tonight… Is it any wonder you were laughed off stage?

So mid half term Friday! Where did the first week go??

So I am once again taking part in doodlebugs linky party Five for Friday. Where I let you all know the  5 important things I have been up to this week.



Here are the five things I have been up to this week:


Easter! I love chocolate and I also love long weekends and I REALLY love half term! So a 4 day weekend, with a half term after it and loads of chocolate!!! Yes that is fantastic thank you very much.




Oh yes right the rest of the blog.... sorry I got distracted by all the yumminess.


My daughter has started to drive! Yes this is very scary for me. I brought her lessons for her birthday and she has gone out a couple of times in my car just around car parks. Now that she is on the road I see terrible drivers everywhere and it terrifies me! Please drive safely everyone and NEVER text and drive!

I have finished my Leon and the Place Between unit! I am so pleased with it! Do you ever have that piece of work that just never seems quite right so you go back to it and back to it again and again. Well that was this unit for me. But I am finally happy with it!




This week I have also been taking a bit of a step back from my TES store to focus on TPT. While I do love both my stores TES is still finding its feet and along with lots of technical issues, the seller experience is making it a lot harder work than it needs to be. I will still keep my TES store open with a limited range of products but all my products will be available on TPT.








And lastly we have a brand new coffee machine and OMG! It is amazing. I am drinking rather a lot more coffee now though, but it tastes sooooo good!

It's a Tassimo and I am a little bit in love with it!







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Have a Fabulous weekend everyone :)