<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rdf:RDF xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"><channel rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/BlogRss.aspx/Abuelitas_startup"><title>ABUELITA'S Start Up, 1 Long Road, No Shortcuts - Blogit</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelitas_startup/</link><description>They tell you that you can make millions doing this or that and you think, "Well, I sure would like to, but...." I'm not out to make millions, just considering this a class on how to increase my income, as I am too poor to blog about poverty, it just IS my life. So, here goes and What Do I Know? Not much, so let's all watch me stumble and fall and get back up and learn and see just what grade I get at the end of this course, okay?</description><sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod><sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency><sy:updateBase>2000-01-01T12:00+00:00</sy:updateBase><items><rdf:Seq><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelitas_startup/636463" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelitas_startup/635546" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelitas_startup/632801" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelitas_startup/632481" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelitas_startup/630354" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelitas_startup/628352" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelitas_startup/626901" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelitas_startup/624714" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelitas_startup/616366" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelitas_startup/614467" /></rdf:Seq></items></channel><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelitas_startup/636463"><title>Oh, I want my own computer so much I can taste it. Looking online...</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelitas_startup/636463</link><description>hoping that my new product line will finance one by January 1st. It should, enshallah.</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelitas_startup/635546"><title>Late lesson learned. Joining professional organizations in my field.</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelitas_startup/635546</link><description>I have joined a group in my city called Arts Marketplace and the woman running it has decades of experience with helping artists to behave and appear and conduct their businesses more professionally, successfully and lucratively. Things are looking up. We had ten times the traffic at today's Open...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelitas_startup/632801"><title>Saturday, La Pilita Museum is having their year end blow out t-shirt sale</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelitas_startup/632801</link><description>and all their patrons, etc, come. I am offered a free table and haven't much to sell as I have been out of town or preparing for that. 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The expats are teaching and cleaning and painting and cementing and welding, mentoring orphans...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelitas_startup/630354"><title>I have spent the last month painting chairs for charity auctions and</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelitas_startup/630354</link><description>doing some clay and cleaning house and staying in bed. I had thought that two of El Centro's holidays were going to be exclusively mine to crow about and promote in the media, but plans there change and never get finalized in a timely manner and frustration sets in. So, I will only do what I can...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelitas_startup/628352"><title>Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelitas_startup/628352</link><description>~Goldstein's Truism</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelitas_startup/626901"><title>Three new albums of my artwork from the past month here below</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelitas_startup/626901</link><description>HERE No computer and a broken car and no money all conspired to keep me home and making clay things. A good thing, as that paid to get everything up and running again, sort of.</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelitas_startup/624714"><title>Sorry, unwell this week, but working anyway and having fun with work.</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelitas_startup/624714</link><description>Here is a sllide show of my latest clay work. I did a new line for American Legacy and it should come out in October or November. I hope so. It was fun to work on. Still making the display. http://entertainment.webshots.com/slideshow/574197887IgbFqs</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelitas_startup/616366"><title>New prototypes for the reproducers of my artwork and a trip to New Mexico.</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelitas_startup/616366</link><description>I have been invited to make new pieces, and I am thinking mostly Native American dancers from the Pueblo tribes, of New Mexico, some others, too, from my area here. Am going to consult with my biggest buyer in New Mexico, to ask him what sells best and to gather more info for my pieces. I will...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelitas_startup/614467"><title>Trying to make money in every way, but walking our streets in short shorts</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelitas_startup/614467</link><description>and being pelted with old rotten tomatoes. The possibilities of street walking, well, those days are way way gone. However, my brother, the lawyer, did defend a sixty-nine year old woman and ex-nurse, who "took care of" her old bachelor neighbors in her apartment building and was given parts of...</description></item></rdf:RDF>