{"id":11455,"date":"2014-05-08T23:26:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T04:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=11455"},"modified":"2014-05-08T23:26:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T04:26:18","slug":"enjoying-life-as-a-stella-dot-rep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=11455","title":{"rendered":"Enjoying Life as a Stella &#038; Dot Rep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit, the only reason I joined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stelladot.com\/ching\"  title=\"Stella &#038; Dot\" target=\"_blank\">Stella &#038; Dot<\/a> as an independent stylist a few months ago is so that I could buy their jewelry at half off. I had no intention of doing trunkshows or selling jewelry. I just wanted the discount. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/14109589824\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching Brubaker, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7303\/14109589824_77ba72791a_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My sponsor\/upline Amanda convinced me to host a trunkshow\/launch party in March. It was a huge hit and so I was able to earn some free jewelry and half off discounts which afforded me the ability to add to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stelladot.com\/ching\"  title=\"Stella &#038; Dot\" target=\"_blank\">Stella &#038; Dot<\/a> accessory stash or &#8220;sample inventory&#8221; as I like to call it. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/13921349097\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching Brubaker, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"pic\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2916\/13921349097_16281f3f99_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, every time I want something I just tell Brian I&#8217;m investing in &#8220;samples&#8221; for my jewelry business and he doesn&#8217;t hassle me about it. Not as much as he usually does, anyway. I wish I would have thought of this sooner! LOL.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/13610734493\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching Brubaker, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"pic\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7009\/13610734493_25a5c69626_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The best thing about &#8220;samples&#8221; is I get to wear them whenever I like&#8230; Yup. I love samples! Who doesn&#8217;t? If you&#8217;re interested in a way to get your husband off your back about owning too much jewelry and accessories or if you actually want to make some extra cash, <a href=\"mailto:ching@brubakers.us\" title=\"Email Me\" target=\"_blank\">contact me<\/a>. Please also like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stelladotching\"  title=\"Stella &#038; Dot by Ching, Independent Stylist\" target=\"_blank\">my Stella &#038; Dot page on Facebook<\/a>. Have a fantastic weekend, everyone!<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/14123490212\"  title=\"Stella &amp; Dot Arm Party http:\/\/www.stelladot.com\/ching by Ching Brubaker, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5316\/14123490212_0880ce5f83_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Stella &amp; Dot Arm Party http:\/\/www.stelladot.com\/ching\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit, the only reason I joined Stella &#038; Dot as an independent stylist a few months ago is so that I could buy their jewelry at half off. I had no intention of doing trunkshows or selling jewelry. I just wanted the discount. My sponsor\/upline Amanda convinced me to host a trunkshow\/launch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1382,380],"tags":[2310,379,293,2291],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11455"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11459,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11455\/revisions\/11459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}