Jelly Brain

I’ve been sitting here for 30 minutes wondering what to post here tonight.

It’s been a big day and my brain is shutting down.

While I was trying to finish setting up the room for art, those pesky customers kept walking through the door. I got everything done without stress and sales were very good, but today has topped off a week that has really worn me out!

School holidays have been a blinder and I have crammed too much into the last five days AND I am too old for this $#@%!

The art class was fantastic.

We played with our art from last week and embellished it a little. 

We created two more pieces of art.

We created some jewellery.

We drank wine and ate crackers n dip.

We cleaned up our messes.

I was so tired that I forgot to take photos!

I packed up and came home.

I’ve been watching The Good Girls all afternoon and evening.

Now I’m off to bed and I can’t wait to spend at least half of Sunday there.

Nite all.

Rest Period

Today was a little quieter than the rest of the week.

Still good sales, but less customers.

I finished steaming, pricing and displaying all of the clothes.

I unpacked, checked, priced and displayed the other box of stock.

I partially set up the training room for the art workshop.

I tidied my desk.

I actually made some lunch and sat down to eat it.

Adoring Husband drove into The Bay for some pool supplies and while he was there, ran some errands for me, picking up some Floetrol for art and some big and small paper bags with handles from HBW.

It was a good productive day for me and late this afternoon I required a nap!

I got a couple of loads of washing done and I’m grateful for AH’s Friday night cooking.

We’ve watched a good game of footy tonight between Roosters and Panthers. Panthers won by a single point.

Now I need some sleep ready for a big day tomorrow.

Nite all.

Feeling Grateful

As grateful as I am for these busy school holidays and the accompanying big sales that go with them, I must say that I’m looking forward to some quieter time to sit in silence in the shop to listen to the voices in my head.

🥴

We opened the shop early this morning so I spent some time cleaning the loo, tidying the kitchen, setting up a jug of water with cups on the table in preparation for the aromatherapy workshop and setting up the steamer with all the new clothes so that I could finish pricing and displaying them.

It was so busy, it literally took me all day to do the clothes ... and then I discovered two more tops in the bottom of the box just before we left.

Ugh.

It’s always so exciting to open a box of new clothes, but after a couple of hours steaming, the excitement begins to wane and the task seems never ending!

I still have an unopened box of stock in the change room that I hope to unpack tomorrow.

The first two hours of today had 8 people in the training room for an aromatherapy jewellery making workshop. There was lots of happy chatter floating out of the room but I didn’t get to participate because of all those pesky school holiday customers! Haha.

I paid my bills this afternoon and finished my newsletter which I plan on proof reading and sending out to my email list in the morning.

The training room needs to be set up tomorrow for Saturday’s art workshop. That shouldn’t take too long.

What a week.

Sunday is dangling before me like a carrot!

Sleep is calling my name.

Nite all.

Wash Rinse Repeat

The exact same two hours were crazy busy again today and sales were within $20 of yesterday’s sales.

Meditation for the first hour - there is nothing new to say about how fantastic the first hour of Wednesday is in the shop.

A small group remained for coffee afterwards and I got to spend some quality time with The Gypsy before she left.

One customer took 90 minutes of my time - a lonely unhappy lady hungry for friendly conversation.

Two deliveries, one of clothing and one which I haven’t even opened yet, arrived during the day.

I steamed approximately one third of the clothes and got them onto the racks, which was lucky because I sold quite a few pieces this afternoon already.

I had a nice visit from The Motivator but we didn’t get much time alone together because another sad and lonely customer came in and intruded on our time.

Adoring Husband and I set up the room ready for tomorrow’s workshop in aromatherapy.

It was almost 3pm by the time we locked the door and headed home and I confess that I was feeling very worn out and in need of some restful, quiet, alone time.

Some days are filled with people who attempt to suck the life out of me - it’s up to me to find a way to counteract that otherwise I’m going to be in a lot of trouble! 😳

I must say that I’m sleeping very soundly at night!

We ate dinner at 4.40pm - pork sausages with home made tomato relish (thanks to The Motivator!) and a lovely fresh green salad.

I believe that our increasingly early dinners and our equally increasingly early bed times are confirming beyond all reasonable doubt that we are officially ... old!

It’s almost 7.30pm and I’m about to play Quiz time on BBC2 radio and then head off to bed.

Yup!

Old!

Nite all.

2 Hot Hours

I wore my new shoes today.

I was literally on my feet running, walking and standing for 5 hours and my feet felt like they were in slippers at the end of the day. 

I love my new shoes!!

Morning tea with the girls was animated and enjoyable and before they departed, they created a shopping frenzy that lasted for about thirty minutes. It was the beginning of an amazing sales day for me.

It was exhausting because all of the sales happened between 10am - 11am and 12.30pm - 1.30pm.

In between those times I priced and displayed a big box of Ivys bags and cleaned up the mess that doing that job created.

I set up the tables for the journaling class.

After the journaling class, Adoring Husband helped put those tables away to clear the room for meditation in the morning.

Unfortunately he also had some bad news to tell me.

One of our friends, who, in this blog, I call Grumpy Pants, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly this morning. You know his wife as our friend The Blonde Bombshell.

It was utterly shocking and completely unbelievable and I am still trying to process this dreadful news.

Even though I called him Grumpy Pants, he always had a positive mindset - especially considering the health setbacks that they have endured over the last couple of years after their big car accident - he was always ready for a big hug and always had something cheeky to say with a smile on his face and a twinkle in his eye.

We are all in shock, but we will all be here to help support Bombshell through this terrible time.

Grumpy Pants, we will miss your cheeky presence in our group and you have reminded us how fragile life can be, so we will hug our husbands a little tighter tonight.

Nite all.

2 year old tells us about her dinosaurs.

My adorable little Chicklet, seven years ago, naming her dinosaur collection. 

Bubbles posted this old video on Facebook today. It brought a tear to my eye and the warmest, fuzziest feeling in my heart. She will soon be ten and is currently reading Ahn Do’s series of books.

I miss her so much.

On a brighter note, I enjoyed some quality time with my girls today.

We drove to Childers and shopped for shoes, bags and clothes in between a delicious morning tea of latte with GF lemon meringue tart and lunch of warm chicken salad with sweet mustard dressing.

There was lots of snorting laughter, lots of admiring of each other’s purchase choices, lots of walking, lots of news to share, shocking conversation 😳, a mini walkout (with tongue in cheek) and I even found some  art supplies for the next art class!

We were gone for five hours and as it does when you’re having fun, time flew!

These are a couple of my purchases ...

Those big hippy pants are sooooooo comfortable and soooooo cool to wear. I’m going to get myself some more of them!

Now it’s time for me to sleep in preparation for a big week ahead.

Thanks girls for a great day. I love all of you and I’m so grateful to have you in my world. Let’s do it again soon.

Nite all.

A Short Day

I cant believe how quickly this Sunday has passed!

I bet you can’t guess what I did.

Yep.

I stayed in bed until 4pm.

I created the next two journaling classes and printed the questions/lessons out ready to photocopy when I get to work on Tuesday.

That took me a good five hours. Five enjoyable hours because I love opening my mind and creating something new from scratch. It’s especially enjoyable when the feedback is is so positive.

My Monday is going to be pretty full (and fun!) but I still have to create my monthly newsletter and do some more on my commissioned art piece before 30th September.

Tuesday is coffee with the girls and the journaling class.

Wednesday is meditation and coffee with other girls.

Thursday is aromatherapy bracelet making and beginning the setup for the art workshop.

Friday is finishing the art set up in the training room.

Somewhere during the week there will also be three deliveries of stock arriving.

Saturday will be the art workshop.

I’m already exhausted just thinking about this week!

I’d best get another early night because I need to be full of nutrition and well rested!

Nite all.