So now that i have had a business in indonisian handicraft for the last four years now , Let me tell you about that. Once i had purchased the business, the first thing to do was get some new product on the shelves, Now as i had no idea where the product was coming from , My self my sister and the lady who sold me the company went on a mission to bali to find more new and exciting stuff for me to start my position of owner opereator. After a long two flights and a quick stop over in japan , there we were in bali one of the islands that makes up indonisia.

The first thing i noticed was the smell, I had never smelt anygthing like it before. It was a smell of insence and ocean combined with tropical food smell and the sea air,. it was also very hot ant ten o'clock at night, I had never experianced anything like it. after a short taxi ride we all got dropped at our hotel, a quiet palce , yet absolutley beautfull. it was nice tiled floors through out the hotel , Palm tree's all over the property , along with little cats everywhere. It had a small swiming pool and hotel restraunt which was located at the back of the property under thatched roof gazebo. So we had the quick tour of the hotel and headed to bed to get good night sleep for the busy day that lay ahead.

The next morning when i woke up the sun was already shinning and it was 20 degree's at only eight o'clock am. We went for breakfast in the gazebo and were greated by some friendly balanese hotel worker's. fresh fruit and omeletts were on the menu Mmmmm!

We then set out for a long day's shopping in the streets around us. The first thing we we're looking for was some colourfull sarong's. You find in bali that there is an area for certain things, such as sarongs , you go to legian area , on double six rd there is a great selection , sarong's , clothes , jewllery and some wooden art. So we proceeded up double six rd for about 100 yards and had already seen about 10 shop's . my sister was in heavan , and , i would have to admit this was all very exciting for me also. It was time for a rest and a bite to eat , lunch was served at a wee small place just round the corner. We were greated with a smile, it was time to try some tropical food, I had balaneses style chicken , it was quite spicy , so i washed ir down with bin tang , Bali's local beer. at luch we discussed ssome of the other thing,s we would be lookinf for, Mask's , wind chimes,buddha, carved annimals, burled wood, hibiscuss wood, ceramics , terracotta, and many other things.

after lunch we continued our search for sarongs and jewllery on dsouble six st, and on a few other streets around the area. The day quickly came to a close,Well you loose track of time when your shoppinf after all. At six o'clock we decided to call it a day as we had been shopping for a full ten ours. The shops would stay open for another 4 hours yet, to make for casual evening shopping for those have perhaps been on the beach all day.

After my first full day of shopping in bali for indonesian handicraft, I was very tired , but was feeling very good about about my new business.

Hi my name is alan and i have created this blog to share my experiance in indonisian handicraft. first i willl tell you a bit about my self. I was born and raised in scotland till the age of sixteen , then i moved to canada , to place called whistler, in the province og british columbia,located in the rocky mountains. Let me tell you for a sixteen year old kid this place was like heaven on earth for snowboarding in the winter and all kinds of fun things in the summer , like mountain bikiing, white water raffting, golfing , swimming in the many lakes. My life was whimsical and i quickly addopted the accent of canadians. after three years it was to time to head back to the home land and re-claim my scottish accent that the canadians enjoyed for a brief six month's.

Once home i was back to work right away, i started work with my father as a spray painter of fired retardant paint.. I did that for 2 years before turning my hand to sales. This is where i would discover that i thrived. I first took a jod selling vacums with a air filter system as well as a pwerfull clean to your floors and furniture. This was not my ideal job as the vacum over priced and appointments were made by the promise of a free holiday. My next job in sales was as a door to door gas and electric saleman. I had found my forte. I excelled in this field, making some of the best money i had ever made. After gain some hard experiance in sales i decided it was time to go back to canada to be close to the rest of my family who had since left scotland to reap the benifits of a wonderfull island, Vancouver island, in beautifull british columbia, canada.

Once again i was back where i loved to be , and right back to work as a skilled labourer for my brothers who have a fraiming company. We built a lot of houses togther and it also brought us closer together as a family. I was working for them for about two years when i decided it was time for a change , So i started to research what mightbe a good business for me to do. At first i came across an advert in the paper for a coffee business, which consisted of me putting stall filled packets of coffee for sale in to local shops around the area where i lived. Sounded like a great business with great profit margins, So i sent a deposit on the business , the other half of the money would be paid when i recieved my coffee stall's and coffee to fill them. The problem was it turned out to be a huge scam and i lost fourteen thousand dollars. After having borrowed a lot of money to get started in the coffee business i was left with a big loan and no business, So i continued to look in the papers for idea's.

It was my father who found the indonisian handicraft business for sale. it was a wholesale business in the field of wonderfull and whismical gift idea's, all kinds wooden art from over sea's. We went to see the place and i was instantly interested in this legitimate and fun business, And so the sale went through and i had a company. now i would have to travel to bali to seek out new wooden art .