Well I made it through my first week of blogging every day. Whew, it is a lot f work but I am really enjoying it. I have already heard some positive feedback and I hope that you all are enjoying it.
This past week was a momentous one- I have officially finished my “starting” inventory for the year. This was meant to be complete before I started doing shows in April, but life was well, busy, and I finished it just about 2 ½ months later than I thought. But it is a good start- about 5400 bars of soap, 3000 bath fizzys, 900 lotion bars, 1050 lip balms, 360 bath salts, and 450 lip glosses. There are also hundreds of bath mitts, soap savers, wash cloths, soap samplers, and sachets in that list as well. Some of these things will last me the year, others I will need to make more of in just a few months time. I hope that in October/November I can start on stuff for next year and really be able to meet my goal in 2008- inventory complete, BEFORE I start shows!
Monday: Paid bills, caught up on two weeks of blog, did laundry, and figured out the dinner menu for July 4. In the garden C and I finished installing the edging, bought stones and put them down (realizing we STILL needed more). We worked on the front landscaping buying plants and mulch, we decided on mostly annuals for this year and next we will research and plant perennials, this planting every year is too much work.. I pickled my beets from my garden- 6 beets got me 1 pint, and it is harder and messier than I expected it to be, but it was fun and now I don’t want to eat them because of all my hard work.
Tuesday: I did my typical Tuesday chores, planted some pepper plants I had bought the day before. I had planted green peppers when I started the garden, but decided early on that I should have put in yellow or red peppers as well, so when we were looking at plants for the front of the house I found some yellow pepper plants and decided to try and see if I could get them not to die and actually produce peppers. I picked up groceries for the July 4 BBQ. In the front landscaping C and I mulched around the plants that we got installed, and still have just a few more to do before we can call that section done.
Wednesday: In the morning we cleaned up the house and B&M came over for what is now our annual July 4 BBQ. We had burgers and hot dogs, potato salad, cole slaw, and cucumber salad, brownies, and fruit salad. We hung out for quite a few hours and we all had a lot of fun. It is so nice to have a relaxing day with friends and not have tons of drama and stress. The rains came so we didn’t even have an opportunity to see fireworks even if we had wanted to…
Thursday: I finished and e-mailed my July/August Newsletter. Made soap and made lip glosses. It was a day back to work, but it was exciting because I could see the light at the end of the tunnel and it was just a few more days……
Friday: More soap and more lip glosses made. I also did my Friday chores. I wrapped some Soap on a Rope, and printed my Newsletter so I can get it mailed soon. I also poured some lotion bars that I am working on in a research and development sort of way.
Saturday: In the morning I worked on the garden cutting back tomato plant suckers and replanting some seedlings I have sprouting. We went to see the King Tut exhibit at the Franklin Institute with B&M. It was amazing to see. The quality of the workmanship and to think how old everything is, that it was all buried, just mind boggling. The Egyptian pharaoh wanted to “live forever” and if you believe that eternal life comes through being remembered, well than they sure have reached their goals. After that we went to the Chester casino. The place was packed because the PA gov’t was most likely shutting down in a few days so everyone had to loose their money before it did. Actually C and I did well, almost doubled our money, not bad. We had a great buffet. B & M both got the extra crab legs and since they couldn’t eat them all, I got some too, yum!
Sunday: I woke up with a terrible headache and didn’t do all that much all day. I picked up groceries for the week and then C and I started to clean out our bedrooms so the floors can be refinished. We brought all the clothes into the attic and much of the other stuff was loaded into the bathroom. We have to work on it a little every day till Friday when they come. While I napped in hopes for my headache to stop, C went and bought the last of the stones for my garden and some potting soil so we can finish the front landscaping. Later, once the sun went down and it cooled off a little I finished putting down the stones in the garden.
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