Betty
Let me tell you about my friend, Betty. Betty is a very personable gal; everyone is her friend. She started a group she calls “Laughing Ladies” as her answer to the Red Hat ladies and the group meets every month for dinner and laughs, and serious concern about her friends, also.
Betty is a landscape painter and loves to paint homey scenes – for example, a house with a tree on which a tire hangs. On the tree are the initials of 2 lovers of long ago, implying they now own the home and have children who enjoy the swing.
Betty painted a stump with a red bird on it because she thought one of her friends would like it – and hug it on the wall one night when the Laughing Ladies came. Sure enough, that lady loved it – as well as did 2 others. As a result, she had 2 new orders of a stump with (different) birds. At this point she has made close to $1000 on stumps with birds – all from her friends and their friends!