Jean Givan Chronicles

SUBLIMATION I'm back at it, sublimation. I was re-invigorated and encouraged to resume what I had begun, sublimation. I had put it aside, because I got side-tracked. Didn't want to have my ink run out of my machine before I replaced it. Expenses, uggghh. But somehow or another, provision prevails, and pushes me forward. So, forward I go, endeavoring to perfect this discipline and help others to learn about it, and how to make money from home. Such an interesting journey.  

 Jean Marie Givan I believe I am somebody connected to God, sent by Him, here into this Earth, to so some things with other people. My life was heavily influenced by the spiritual, on the good side. My dad says his mother used to pray a lot, and I think I got "zapped," for the lack of a better term. Like I'm special, like divinely selected.  My dad's friend, Mrs. Richards (when she was really up there in age, like in her 90s) would tell me that I have a call of God on my life. I believe it. All of my life, I felt like I was being guided, except when I was being wayward. But even in those times and moments, I had restrictions. I came up a particular way. I was raised Catholic, in a good sense. With a reverence for God and spiritual authority. That carries over into a belief in and trust of God. While some take issue with certain doctrines, I am good with having been raised Catholic because I have a sense of spirituality and morality that has played a major part in who

Connecting the Dots Things seem to be coming together in my life, finally. It's taken a long and meandering journey. But I  honestly believe I am on point with the plans and purposes of God for my life. So, I'm good. Things are coming into alignment, and things are falling into place. Order is ensuing in my life. I have exerted the necessary effort to bring more order to my life, based on the leading, kindness, guidance and love of God. I sense His direction, moment by moment and step by step, of how to bring order to my life. First it was with my room, what color to color it. No, it wasn't like God told me which color to pick. But there was a color that was running over my heart, so to speak, and I chose that one, teal and aqua. So I began in the summer with painting my dresser, then table, then other dresser, wall by wall, and there's still more to be done, and Michael put up some shelves. So, things are nicely taking shape.  Even   the simple things matter. Like here

Business in a Box Thank You, Conde, Sublimation Summit and Cheryl Kuchek  I received this box by mail the other day, and now I am well on my way to a home-based business. The Sawgrass 500 Printer that came to my home is a game-changer. It's a sublimation printer.  What is sublimation? SUBLIMATION is a process which enables people to personalize all kinds of items in a permanent way. The sublimation ink that prints from that specialized printer is printed onto transfer paper. When the transfer paper has heat applied to it, while it is placed over a specially treated item (if it isn't 100% polyester, which takes the ink/heat with no problem), a substrate (hard or soft), the ink (picture, text) is changed to a gas and permanently attached to the substrate. Not on it, but imbedded in it. This is the second sublimation printer that came my way through Cheryl Kuchek's Sublimation Summit. The first one I won at the end of September, last year (2019) was an iColor350. By October, I

 Building a Home-Based Business (Continued) Watching my dad, his friends and colleagues run the Hollis Biddy Basketball League (HBBL) imbedded some entrepreneurial seeds in me, as well as my parents dabbling in Amway and Ameriprise, back in the day. Fast forward to now, entrepreneurialism is wafting in the air, and has been through all of those years. It came closer to me as I had to try to figure out how to generate income while I took on the role as unpaid primary caregiver of my mom. That's cool, usually. I mean, it's my mom. Why should I be paid to look after her, after all she's done for me? Well, I left my job (as a child care worker at a teenage girls' group home, in Pasadena, CA), my pension, and the beautiful sunshine of Southern California. And I have brothers whose jobs were undisturbed. Everybody else's life remained relatively the same. Mine was uprooted, at my expense, and I came to a no-pay situation. And it's been quite a struggle.  My mother'

Happy 50th Anniversary  (Love Gospel Assembly) On October 1, I opened my Bible, one of the ones I hadn't used for awhile. It automatically opened up to Luke 4. I went right to Luke 4:18, as that had been the Scripture I had gotten well acquainted with back in the early 90s because I was charged by the late, great Bishop Gerald Julius Kaufman with the task of transcribing a 6-cassette sermon series (that shows how long ago that was - when have you last seen a cassette tape?) It was the wee hours of the morning, yet I texted Pastor Lillian Gutierrez because she and I had worked feverishly in the summer of 1990 to compile what became Dr. Kaufman's thesis (God is Not the God of Poverty but He is the God of the Poor) for his doctoral dissertation for his Ph,D. which also became the book pictured above, The God of the Poor. Bishop Kaufman passed in 1997, RIP, Bishop. Miss you. 

 Building a Home-Based Business (from the Ground, Up) Sometimes I will include instructional information about how to do some of what I'm doing, but what I am also doing is chronicling what I'm doing, leaving bread crumbs (so to speak), so others can follow along.  My History (Who I Am) Before I get deep into what I plan to do, and where I am going with my home-based business, I have to back up and say who I am and how I got to this point. First of all, I have been on this path way before the pandemic. I had begun my journey, endeavoring to find fortunes in a home-based business, about 10 years ago, when I came back to NY from LA, to look after my aging mom. She had turned 80, and for some time had been showing signs of aging.  Up until that point, she was fairly independent. I had a brother who was living in Long Island with my mom, but my daughter's intuition gave me the indication that it was time for me to head back home to look after my mom in her golden years. A bit o

 LIFE MORE ABUNDANTLY John 10:10 says that Jesus came that I might have life, and that I might have it more abundantly. A few years ago, I was leaning into this particular Scripture, on this day. And I won $2700. Yeah. I had played the number 1050. Was gonna play 1010, but it had sold out. "The whole route," ha. Nah. I really did win. I was playing the numbers back then. Won tons of money. Thousands. Not like some, but I would venture to say probably between $7K - $10K. That's a pretty decent amount. Who knows how much I've spent. But I was playing a lot. Since then, I've come to my senses and follow God's way which is available to all: seedtime and harvest. Sow seeds, reap a harvest. By the way, the equipment I've won lately (a $1.3K iColor 350 printer, a $3.5K c-711 WT printer and a SG500), totaling over $5K is nothing to sneeze at, and I have the potential to earn goo-gobs of money. So, yeah, the more abundant life is staring me right in the face.  HEA