Well, at
least I managed yesterday’s task- I finished both bedding sets last night and
Mike took them to the post office for me this morning! Doing so kind of proves
to me that if I manage to get on top of all my orders, I should be able to
eventually get ahead of myself. On the other hand, I didn’t manage to get back
to my sewing until after dinner was cooked and eaten, the washing up was done,
the younger girls were in bed and everyone else was settled for the evening in
front of the telly. But I haven’t let my customer down, which is the main thing-
whether or not the parcel arrives tomorrow is now down to Royal Mail.
It’s raining
again this morning, and I get drenched taking my littlest to school, and get
even wetter putting the recycling out. After three weeks of illness, and with
it nearing the end of the week, I could really do with a sit down and warm up
by the time I’ve finished, but it’s easier to get on with the breakfast washing
up and loading the washing machine first- while I’m still ‘on a roll’! I finally
grab my chance for a sit down while having breakfast, and also take a quick
look at my emails and website and then take another look at my pesky google ad.
I’m still having trouble targeting my seasonal range, and now I’ve realised
that I also need to advertise my Red Nose Day dress or I won’t sell any.
Half an hour
later and I’m still not getting anywhere. I’m not quite sure what I’m doing
wrong, I’ve never had trouble with setting keywords before, so I think this is
something that I need to dedicate some proper time to- when I’ve not got a
million other things going through my mind that I really should be doing
instead!
Today’s task
in ‘operation tidy-up’ is the bathrooms. Ok, they were on the list for
yesterday, but that was another story. I’m determined today to have a more successful
day than yesterday; it couldn’t really get much more frustrating, so I shut the
computer and grab the cleaning stuff. Somehow the cloakrooms don’t seem to have
suffered by my being ill as much as the rest of the house, I’m pretty certain
that no one else bothered to clean them in my absence so perhaps it just
reflects how up to date I normally keep them!
A couple of
hours later we have two shiny clean cloakrooms, with only the floors needing
washing. It may be a very mundane task, but it is enormously satisfying- I did
say I was a bit of a sad person when it comes to housework!!
Grabbing
some toast for lunch I sit back at the computer and head to my website. I need
to check the stock levels for my bedding sets- I currently have three different
designs on offer, and I’m pretty sure that at least one is sold out, when I
check I notice that only one actually has any stock left! As bedding sets are
easily one of my biggest sellers I need to keep on top of the stock situation
so I log onto one of my favourite online fabric shops and find that
(fortunately!) I can easily replace both designs. Fabric bought, I decide to
wait until I know it has been despatched before updating the website, having
been caught out before with another store’s apologetic email to explain that
their shop stock was showing wrongly!
As I’m on
admin duty I take a moment to just check through the Dolly Clothes Calendar I
made up last year- a record of dates when I added various items, changed over
to summer or winter stock etc. With a bit of a shock I notice that I normally
start my end of winter sale on the first Sunday in March, and that that makes
it this weekend! Where’s February gone? Other than most of it in a haze of
illness…
I’ve just
about got time still to get some sewing done before end of school time, so
setting Dragon’s Den playing on iPlayer I get out the next order that I need to
get made up and sent out. I started the tops last week and sewed the poppers n
while they were in the very early stages of completion, and now I take the
chance to finish both of them. The order is for a pair of pyjamas and a top and
trousers set, and although I don’t have the time today to make the two pairs of
trousers, I should be able to make them up tomorrow and hopefully get the order
in the post on Saturday morning. For now though, it’s time to fetch my youngest
from school, and start on tonight’s dinner- no one could ever accuse me of
living an uninteresting and unvaried life!
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