Any ideas ?

[Vick]

This is a very tough one sarettah
You're asking for advice plotting a career path and a path to financial success/stability

Just some stuff off the top of me head

First, I'd say you've done ok so far, raising 3 children is challenging and from the pics you posted of your house looks like you did well

Second, you're looking at your assets, liabilities, short term and long term goals as well as abilities and challenges. As painful as it is me for to say if you're coming to a forum and asking for advice in these arenas maybe working for someone else may be a better solution that working for yourself


FWIW - I've looked at Paper Jewels a few times, some interesting/nice products there, but I'm not sure of the marketing.
Maybe give this some thought - Drop the name Paper Jewels. As a consumer Paper and Jewels don't go together for me especially if your asking me as a consumer to buy a product touted as paper for $40+

I'd suggest going with a different name (do some market research) maybe something that is a derivative of origami (or spend some time with a thesaurus and some foreign language dictionaries)

Then GREEN market it. Example "You can be the proud owner of our lovely Jewelry without harming the Earth or taking away from our Earth's Precious Resources" (Yes I know it's paper from trees but you can push the 100% recycled materials were used in the making of all our fine pieces)

You can still keep the Paper Jewels site, just build a second site with a different name and different marketing approach


As for the rest I'm never a fan of a huge outlay of capitol if it can be avoided. Cloud 9 Entertainment was started in 1997 for $4K and the return on that investment has been very good over 5+ years.

Also you are going to have to brush up your sales abilities or at the very least become more comfortable with your sales ability.
We all sell. Whether it be to consumers, business, or ourselves

Sorry I can't lay a plan out to achieve your goals but getting something to think about might point you in the right direction

Best wishes