Didn’t make my deadline, but did okay

Do I even need to say anymore that today was another long, but productive, day?

• Morning pages
• Began (barely) another omiyage pouch, but other than that, did not sew today at all, which my shoulders and spine appreciate!
• Wrote up Etsy shop policies and profile
• Retook photos for Etsy, using black felt as a backdrop (that worked fairly well, but the lighting still needs tweaking and I’d like to get a different piece of black fabric that will iron better)
• Made listings for 10 items for Etsy and posted them, launching the shop!
• Emailed people and posted on Facebook about the shop launch
• Prepared PayPal settings for selling on Etsy
• Wrote up all FabMo description/care tags, and printed out many of them
• Tweaked prices again (realized actually last night’s prices were kind of high for some items)
• Printed up Etsy coupon code labels for FabMo
• Worked my way through the FabMo Ideas document all the way to the Display section
• Planned out FabMo day-of info in great detail, and emailed an even more detailed version to Jackie
• Had a really good drawing studio, after a slow start, incorporating color (pastels and colored pencils!) and returning to my detailed pencil technique

It was a good day and I got a lot of stuff done that had been weighing on me (in particular, the Etsy shop), but I’m still far from having met my deadline for the night. I’ll need to make that up tomorrow. Major items: finish three omiyage pouches (sigh, that’s more than six hours of work right there), run through FabMo table display, start new rug, make Satsumabug signs (that might be another hour or more), pull out boxes for storage/transport of products and props. If I don’t get the bulk of that done tomorrow — I would say two pouches, the display runthrough, and the signage at the very least — I will panic on Friday, and I have neither the energy nor the time to panic. So I am going to bed tonight immediately after finishing my late-night snack (seasoned noodles), so as to get up early tomorrow and get going first thing in the morning. (Anyway, I must practice getting up early because I will have to do it on Saturday.)

My drawing hand is excessively sore, and thank goodness Erik bought me Fleischman’s Handmade lotion at the El Cerrito farmers’ market yesterday, because I’m convinced it is the only thing keeping my skin moisturized in spite of all this crafting, rug-making, and pastel-smearing!