Week in the Life: Day 1

Good morning!  I guess after Labor Day I kind of disappeared on you guys.  It kicked off my freaking-out about my upcoming fall and holiday craft fairs, so I spent every weeknight and almost all weekend down in my sewing studio, sewing up a storm.

The good news?  I am having a blast working my little butt off down in my dedicated studio.  The shelving I built in the studio is coming in SO handy for keeping cut fabric and items organized as I work.

I think this year I’m more on top of craft show prep than ever before, so the other good news is that I should be able to finish posting about the studio makeover this month.  I was just needed last week to get ahead with product creation.

This year, like last year, I’m participating in the Week in the Life challenge.  This is a blog miniseries that I’m doing just for myself.  My neighbor Sarah is doing it too!

Monday

Monday morning I woke around 7 am.  I’ve been having trouble waking up early lately; I feel exhausted no matter how much sleep I get. After that it’s easy:

Coffee, puppies in yard, feed the animals, feed the Jane. Check email and blog and all that jazz in case anything needs attention. 

Here’s where my day is so much cooler than it was last year:  I work from home now (when I’m not traveling) so I just open my work laptop at its dedicated desk and get started in whatever I want to wear.  

We’re also on a 9/80 schedule now, which means we do 9 hours a day and every other Friday we’re off.  So I have to start working by 8 am at the latest.

Problem with working from home? Kitchen proximity:  I am able to whip up anything I want to eat, which means I make a mess in the kitchen each and every day.

I take a lunch break, but not to eat – to run.  I hit the treadmill for a good 30 minutes and hit a new distance record for puny little me:  2.6 miles.  Awesome.

After a quick shower, I get back to work while eating a lunch of beef hotdogs and spinach.  Random, but it was in the fridge and was easy.  

My solution for my sweet tooth?  Whip up a little mug of lavender hot cocoa, with very little sugar.  that way it’s not too unhealthy.

Around 5:30 I start to wind down work, and pour a glass of leftover (but fab) red wine from Linden Vineyards.  I’m not in a wine mood, though, so I use the wine to cook up some chicken thighs that were in the freezer.  My experiment works – so we have dinner ready for Tuesday night!

Of course now the kitchen is a wreck, so I clean it up before Ryan gets home from work.

Exciting!  Ryan is home and he brought in the mail and in it was some ah-mazing voile fabric I ordered for infinity scarves.  I head to the basement and whip up a sample for myself.  Yep, it’s awesome.  Yep, I’m going to sell them.

I attempt to play with the puppies but these days their attention span is limited.  🙁 It’s a day when Ryan gets home from work after 7, and he isn’t done running until after 8, so we eat dinner separately.  I just have an apple and almond butter while I make the tough decisions on what fabrics to order.  I’m just getting a little more based on what sold best during last fall’s craft fair.

I finish around 11 pm and hit the sack.  Tomorrow is a busy day with me needing to be at two events at once for work.  Yeehaw!

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