I wish this
flu bug would just go away and leave us alone now. After such a good positive
day yesterday, I didn’t sleep at all well and have been awake since half past
four with a headache that will not shift. Although up and about properly, I
didn’t get any actual work done yesterday and now my mind just wants to get
going and catch up a bit with my orders, and the new website design- even
though my body doesn’t seem to want to follow suit.
My second
youngest daughter seems to have taken a backwards step today as well, and she’s
been sent back to bed- finally having the day off that she stubbornly refused
to take nearly two weeks ago. With my eldest girl on a later shift at work
today, she takes her youngest sister down to school for me, giving me the
chance for a bit of a lazier start in the hope of shifting this headache. It
doesn’t really work, and neither can I manage to grab forty winks, so I head
downstairs when my daughter leaves for work and start my day with the usual
round of washing up and loading the washing machine.
I’ve had
another new fabric come in the post today. While lying semi-conscious I bed at
some point last week, it occurred to me that along with all my new seasonal
designs I could maybe make a charity dress for Red Nose Day. I think I must
have overheard my younger girls talking about it or something, as both their
schools support it and it set my mind wandering and imagining a red spotty
dress. The next time I took the computer out I had a browse and found the ideal
fabric- white with large red dots all over. I’ve no idea if it’s the sort of
thing that will appeal to my customers, but I’m going to get it online as soon
as possible and find out!
After
convincing myself yet again to have some lunch (I wonder if I’ll ever get my
appetite back?) I take a photo of my nice spotty fabric, and then write up the
description for the dress. I can’t decide whether or not to offer this with
short sleeves- it’s very tempting as I’m going to keep it available on the
website until at least the end of March, but looking outside at the dull
weather persuades me to make it long sleeved instead. I’m not going to worry
about this too much at the moment as it’s more important to get the dress up
for sale, but I will have a think about this as I want it to appeal to as many
customers as possible, and I personally prefer the way the short sleeves look.
Maybe I could offer sleeve length as a customer choice? It doesn’t take long to
get the dress online, now I just need a link through from the home page, which
I’d prefer to do once I’ve settled on a new design, and also make sure my
troublesome ‘seasonal’ ad somehow includes it.
I’m still
really tired, and much as I had great plans to get more done on the website
today, I realise that if this headache won’t shift I’ll just have to admit
defeat for today. I’ve had another look at the possible designs for the site,
and I now only have two that I think will fit Little Dolly Clothes Shop, so
that’s progress of a sort! The rest will have to wait until tomorrow, for now making
dinner, ironing tomorrow’s shirts, and then hopefully getting a nice early
night are the order of the evening…
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