okay, deep breath!

I need to supplement my income (single mother with huge mortgage and two kids that would love to have more of everything) without going under in the process. I've been helping my partner out in his business as his Office Manager, working odd hours and weekends. It has helped enormously and I am really grateful to him. However, based on past experience, I know that I can't be in a position where I am dependent on a partner to keep me financially secure. He was wonderful in showing me everything about how his business is managed, and so I have accumulated a lot of recent experience in understanding how superannuation is calculated and paid, getting salaries paid, maintaining company financial records for tax purposes, etc.

I'm an Australian wiith 7 years experience working in Administration at a University and am currently a Centre Administrator. I have a background in Asian Studies and I lived in Japan for seven years.

I enjoy drawing - especially portraits, but apart from one or two drawings that I'm genuinely proud of, I wouldn't consider myself to be good enough yet to sell my work. However, I would love to be doing this one day.

I need some encouragement to get myself started in my own home business. Where do I start?

Support and ideas are most welcome.

jrebel7

Hi there. I just hopped on here real quick. I have a dr. appt. and then prior commitment for the day but you probably just need to resize your image. Go to any of the photo imaging programs and pull up your image. Choose 'image' or 'edit' depending on your program. Go to 'resize'. Make sure you choose pixels and then choose the largest diminsion, eihter height or width, and type in any thing from 750 or 650 or 450 and then "save as: (rename file as the name of your image and then resized)...................i.e. Old wooden bridge resized.jpg which original might have just said Old wooden bridge.

That way you have the original scan plus the resized image. Best to keep the origianl scan for clairty for other uses later.

Hope this helps. I don't have contacts in so fogive type-o's. Just in a hurry this morning. Glad to hear back from you and will look forward to seeing images of our work this evening when I get back home. Best to you!

Thank you for your kinds words regarding my work.

Clough

I am sure that jrebel7 would be able to help you with the posting of images. She really knows how to do that! I know how to do it some, but not like she does.

You might also want to consider posting on another art thread when a new one opens. The Artist in You! thread is about two posts away from closing as it has just about reached the alloted post limit for a thread. I will be returning to this site later tonight. Hopefully, we will connect then or sometime in the near future...

frangipanis

I've been trying to resize the images... with no luck. I'll have to look in to it a bit further

Thanks Clough, I look forward to any suggestions you might have. I would like to earn between $20 - $30K per year on top of my regular income. Is that possible, do you think?

Clough

I am sure that jrebel7 can help you with the image stuff. Much better than I could!

20 to 30k is a lot of money to make doing something part time. At least it would be around where I live. Where do you live, please? Maybe that much money wouldn't be all that much for doing something part-time around where you live.

Clough

Here is a link where jrebel7 helped someone to post images on this site.

http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/collect...am-176199.html

frangipanis

hi Clough

If you don't mind, I'll send you a private message to answer your questions.

Clough

Hi, frangipanis!

It would be best to keep questions and answers on the thread in order to help others who might have similar questions. We are discouraged from answering questions in private messages on this site. Doing so defeats the purpose of this site. Thank you!

frangipanis

hi Clough, where I live is like a small town and although the chances of someone stumbling on to our discussion is highly remote and what I have to say could be considered of little interest to anyone else, I'm cautious not to be too explicit so as to protect the business interests of people I know. So I will need to keep some information fairly general.

Is answering surveys a reliable home business opportunity, do you think? I see this sort of opportunity advertised frequently.

Clough

I'm sorry. But, I haven't had much time to get on here and concentrate on things here in the last couple of days do to personal things that are happening with my family and business things. But, I will return to enjoy discussing with you the possibilities as to what to do.

frangipanis

hi Clough, it's frangipanis here. I somehow lost my previous profile (???) so have re-entered the thread as aerolites.

I look forward to following through on this discussion when you have some spare time. And best wishes re family and business things. As I often get swept up in these things myself, I know what it's like. I'm still hoping to soon put aside some time to focus on downloading some of my drawings... I'll get there, eventually

There's no real urgency by the way, so having the chance to talk through some ideas at leisure is appreciated.