As Predicted!

I posted a meme on the shop Facebook page this morning with the comment “Rainy day sales will be through the roof and the art workshop will be a blast and a half”.

I was correct on both counts!

It was a busy, productive and fun day - my lower back pain is the proof of it!

I finished setting up the training room, mixed the white paint, strained the Floetrol, prepared the fruit and tea/coffee, served the customers and ran the workshop.

It was a great day!

Even though three people had to cancel, there were still 5 in attendance and they were all hilarious and committed and creative and amazingly helpful in the cleaning up process at the end of the day. They all booked their spots in the next class so more fun will be had.

Here is some of their art ...

Not as messy as last week!

My nutrition for today: lemon water, filtered water, chicken broth, coffee x 2, a slice of watermelon, 2 strawberries, baby spinach, tomato, onion, mushroom, cucumber, avocado, beetroot, chicken thigh, sweet potato, GF ice cream cone with coconut ice cream - both still full of sugar but we HAD to try it! No nasty affects but not a habit we’ll take up.

I bathed psychotic dog Ruby and did a small load of washing before sitting down to enjoy Super Saturday football.

I prepared dinner while Adoring Husband slept soundly on the couch.

We came to bed to catch the end of a good old John Wayne movie “Eldorado” and now “Guns of The Magnificent Seven”. They remind me of Dad - he always liked a good cowboy movie.

I plan on spending most of my Sunday in bed. I may have to hold a ladder for AH while he trims a hedge and I’ll change the bedding while I’m up, but that will be the extent of my physical productivity.

It’s going to be a lovely cool morning and a mild day.

Nite all.

After Rest Day

Haha 😂 it wasn’t really that bad. I just loved that meme and wanted to use it.

Adoring Husband set up the tables in the training room for me this morning and I spent parts of the day setting each place with silicone mats, canvases, tools, cups etc ready for Saturday’s class. I still have a bit to do tomorrow before the class begins, like mixing some paint, filling the heat guns with lighter fluid and straining the floetrol.

I made the decision today to clean the table that displays the snap button jewellery. That ended up being an epic job! I don’t think that table had been properly cleaned in a year or more!

The dust was thick under the jewellery so I polished the table and put a cover on it, placed 4 colourful plastic drawers across the back of the table and filled them with just about every piece of jewellery that had been stored under the counter.

This leaves space to bring the extra snap buttons across to the drawers under the snap button cabinet. I’ll have six spare drawers under the other counter cabinet. It feels good to declutter.

It was a good sales day and I had a visit from Aggie which was nice too. Another customer came in wearing clothes that she’d bought from me the day before just to show me. That’s happened three times this week!

Thankfully AH cooks dinner on Friday nights so I was able to put my feet up and relax ... after I had gathered everything from my art studio for the class, getting my clothes off the line and getting changed.

I had to empty my second batch of chicken broth before I came to bed and got 15 containers into the freezer. Even though I forgot to add the chicken feet with the carcass, it still tastes delicious and I can’t wait for my morning broth tomorrow.

My nutrition for the day: lemon water, filtered water, broth, coffee, a mandarin, 3 chicken wings, strawberries, banana and regrettably, some cream. Dairy, among many other things, is not my friend. The discomfort was short lived so not a huge issue, but I’d like to avoid that in future.

We’ve had some glorious rain this afternoon and evening. The forecast is for more over the weekend and we desperately need it. Don’t you love that fresh rain smell??

Best get some sleep now.

Nite all.

Rest Day

I’ve decided to give myself one lazy day in the shop every so often where I don’t research or order stock or clean anything or set up for classes or create ads or design newsletters or FB posts or do the books or file paperwork or pay bills or do the banking etc

I decided that today would be that lazy day.

Today, I dealt with a possible new supplier who only uses the phone to send photos of their stock. I find that a very strange concept and I’m not sure that I want to do business that way. What do you think of these?

That’s not everything they stock. I’ll think on it some more. I’m also happy to hear your opinions.

I sold a lot of snap buttons and snap jewellery today so my afternoon included restocking the trays with buttons. It seems my stock of snap “stuff” has reduced considerably so that goes onto my growing list of “reordering”.

The pre-loved clothing is also flying out the door!

There was a procession of people from the caravan park today. As each returned to their van, they told a neighbour about the shop so the neighbour came in, then they returned and told someone else ... and so on. Almost like a tag team situation!

Did I mention that I have a full class for the art workshop on Saturday? Two people on the waiting list in case anyone drops out. I love it.

I filled 15 containers with the finished chicken broth this afternoon and filled the slow cooker for another batch. Adoring Husband presented me with a full cup of fresh broth straight from the cooker this morning and it was divine!

I used one of the containers to make a gravy with spring onions and mushroom and the leftover pork sausages. It was really nice.

So today’s nutrition, see above and: lemon water, filtered water, bone broth. Two chicken wings. Coconut yoghurt with strawberries and banana.

That’s it. Time for sleep.

Nite all.

My Cup Runneth

I almost broke records today!

Meditation was another full house.

Afterwards, eight of the ladies bought coffee and returned to the meditation room for a chat and a catch up. They stayed for about an hour and there was lots of laughter. It was a great welcome for a newbie to town and she’s keen to become a regular.

My membership list is up to 25 and climbing.

The Motivator and The Fairy Queen popped in and created their own private fashion show which I would have thoroughly enjoyed if those pesky customers hadn’t been so annoying! 🤪

The Real Estate rep dropped in my new lease and sadly, the rates bill along wth it.

I did some filing - I’m pretty impressed with how I’m staying on top of the filing. Talk to me in three months and we’ll see if I’m still being consistent.

I priced the remaining stock that arrived yesterday and displayed it.

I planned out the rest of my week and filled my diary. Made a ‘to do’ list.

I contacted Vistaprint about my missing business cards. Hopefully they’ll arrive soon!

Customers filled the rest of the day, including one who whirled through the door wearing a complete linen outfit which she purchased from me last Friday and she looked AMAZING!

Adoring Husband arrived right on time to help close the shop.

My nutrition for the day: lemon water, coffee, a chilli chicken wing for lunch, a pork sausage with sauerkraut, baby spinach, cucumber, beetroot, tomato, avocado and onion. Dessert was fruit whip of pineapple, banana, dragon fruit, coconut cream and maple syrup toffee.

I currently have a chicken broth brewing in my 6 litre slow cooker.

1 chicken carcass
6 organic chicken feet (if you can’t get chicken feet, use two carcasses)
1 brown onion cut into quarters (not peeled)
1 carrot chopped into chunks (not peeled)
1 celery stick chopped into chunks
6-10 garlic cloves chopped but not peeled
1 Tablespoon of Himalayan salt
A good splash of apple cider vinegar (with the mother)
Chuck all the ingredients into your slow cooker and then fill with as much filtered water as the pot will hold. Set the cooker on low for 12-20 hours. I always cook for 20 hours.

After 20 hours, I scoop out as much broth as possible, without disturbing the meat/veg, into cup sized containers - it’s a beautiful clear golden colour - then remove the veg/meat and pour the remaining broth into cup size containers to freeze - this will be cloudy and less pretty to look at, but still delicious. I usually get 14 cups out of one batch of broth.

I’m looking forward to a fresh cup in the morning!

If I was a caterpillar ...

It’s well after 11pm so I’d best get some sleep!

Nite all.

Too Fast!

I can’t believe how quickly today passed!

It started with morning coffee and even though there were only four of us, the conversation flowed and before we knew it, 90 minutes had passed and it was time to go our separate ways.

Next thing I know, a delivery of stock appeared, which I directed to the back room.

During the next hour, I sorted through all the tax paperwork for The Happy Abode to have it ready for The Motivator who was coming to visit. Her birthday was over a week ago and my gifts for her were still waiting behind my office chair!

I’m so slack but I could have sworn her birthday was only 3 days ago!

We spent over an hour together, which was so nice, but I still forgot to give her the metal sign stand and all her art - I think we subconsciously forget stuff so that we have a reason to connect in the future.

After she left, I unpacked the new stock and while I was pricing 72 owls, Adoring Husband strolled through the door and I realised it was 2.30pm! Far out.

I finished pricing and AH and I displayed them in little clusters all over the shop.

We set up the training room for meditation and dragged ourselves to the car at about 3.15pm.

There was plenty to do at home including tending to psychotic dog Ruby’s eye, bringing in some washing, hanging out some washing, photocopying some information for a customer, creating a new meditation sign to stick on the shop door on Wednesdays, designing a new FB post for this weekend’s art workshop, adding some names to the shop’s membership list and emailing the newsletter, checking my emails and starting a new book for processing gift certificates.

Dinner was mango chilli coconut chicken tenders with salad, followed by the lime slice from Su Jus Bar.

Now it’s almost 11pm and I have to be up at 6am for meditation, so I’m outta here!

Nite all.

Shopped til I Stopped

In order ...

Harvey Norman to research laptops for Beautiful Girl With Long Blonde Hair.

Office Works to research Calligraphy pens AND laptops for BGWLBH + I spent $80 because I have no self control.

Su Jus Cafe Bar for GF/DF/refined sugar free slices and muffins plus a green juice.

Shoe Frenzy to check prices of the clothes, bags and wallets that I also sell in my shop. Some of their prices are lower and some are higher.

Fantastic furniture to order two glass cabinets which probably won’t arrive until September, and I purchased two small round tables for the shop.

Spotlight for more canvasses and paint.

Heaps Discount for for more paint, squirt bottles and pouring cups.

JBHIFI to research laptops for BGWLBH.

Dropped off all the purchases to the shop and bought some food for dinner.

Home by 2.30pm to find a big mess made by the dogs which took us an hour to clean up.

Ugh.

Chicken and cabbage for dinner, followed by those yummy slices from Su Jus.

Now it’s time for sleep.

Nite all.

I’m Back!

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I didn’t feel like doing a blog post last night (Saturday) so I didn’t! 🤪

Saturday was an average kind of sales day and I spent most of the morning adding email addresses to Roz’s Happy Place Membership list as they flowed in to me via private messages, phone calls, messages on the FB page and even a couple of texts..

I made a few tweaks to the inaugural newsletter and sent it out on Saturday night. I forgot to change it to a PDF and some people were unable to open and read it, but they messaged me and I fixed the problem.

I’ve received some positive feedback about the newsletter, so that’s nice.

Most of my Sunday has been spent in bed doing very little that’s productive. It was really about closing my brain to all the work stuff, playing around in FB, Youtube, Twitter and Instagram, watching the footy and inspecting Adoring Husband’s great work in the garden around the pool.

I cooked corned silverside for dinner and did sweet potato in their jackets with snow peas and broccoli on the side. Avocado choc mousse with blueberries for dessert.

 

We’ve planned a big day in The Bay tomorrow so I’d best get some sleep.

Nite all.