My Spring 2016 Week in the Life: Wednesday

Wednesday was another work day, so my morning starts when Maple and I get up at 7 and get ready to walk to daycare.

I didn’t track the timeline of my day as closely as I did on Monday.  I also forgot to take photos.

After the dogs and I walk Maple to daycare, I make breakfast while listening to the Sarah R Bagley podcast, specifically Episode 105. It’s a good listen for entrepreneurial women!

I finish writing my Monday Week in the Life post and think to myself “Hm..  At this rate it’s going to take a while to write up each day of the week!”

With my blog post published, it’s time to review the orders that came in on Monday and Tuesday, print out the packing slips, and head to the studio to sew them up and ship them out.

I’m delayed a bit because our landlord’s contractor, Brian, shows up to replace our cracked garbage disposal and take a look at a leak below the bathroom tub.  I was worried I did something to break the disposal, but he tells me the 5 years we got from it is pretty normal.

I then get Brian to take a look at my sewing studio so we can get an estimate for making the room bigger.

Yep, you read that right.  Even though we rent, we have no plans to move in the next few years, so Ryan and I have been brainstorming how to give Janery the room it needs to grow – without taking over the living spaces of our house.

The Janery studio shares a wall with the large, unfinished work room in the basement.  The wall with the cabinets.  Brian agrees that it would be pretty easy to move the shared wall back, so that the workroom gets smaller and the studio gets larger.  Paying the one time fee to enlarge the room is probably more affordable than renting a work space in town.

After Brian leaves I get back to work.  I don’t keep every item pre-made and in stock, only about 50% of them.   The reason for this?  Some items sell more frequently than others, and some patterns are more popular on one product than on another. For now it’s still manageable to make items to order -and it means I don’t have to store as many finished products.  At the rate the business is growing, I anticipate having to change this by the end of the year.

When my orders are made and packaged it’s time for a shower, and then lunch.  Today I’m out of Modern Family episodes so I try the TV show “About a Boy.”  Eh.  It’s ok but not amazing.

It’s late afternoon now, and Ryan comes home from work.  I get back to the computer to write the first draft of a guest blog post I’m sharing on a larger design blog.  I also draft up my next email newsletter, which shares some changes I made to a product.

At 5 pm I scoop up Maple at daycare.  I’m so excited to see her, and the feeling is mutual: When she sees me coming she starts yelling exuberantly.

Dinner is bean chili and veggies again.  Maple’s dinner is more of a battle – we try to feed her all sorts of things, but she’s just not in an eating mood.  After a bath and a book, she goes to sleep.

I honestly can’t remember what I did with the rest of my night.  Eventually I make Ryan’s lunch for the next day, and head to bed myself.