I sent out my Black Friday and Small Business Saturday e-mailers yesterday. I know a lot of the email addresses I have on file are no longer valid, and that there are some people who have their work emails on the list and are out of the office until Monday, but I tried my best. I would have preferred to send it out last week, but got voted down by DH and Chickie. We work in a small democracy at the shop, so I was simply outvoted. At least it's one thing off my agenda now. It will automatically resend one more time on Wednesday. Then I can enjoy my Turkey Day and dive into my 2-Day Sale.
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I'm a big believer in "one holiday at a time". I think stores these days dive into Christmas far too early, ignoring Thanksgiving entirely in the pursuit of holiday dollars. Yes, of course we need the money. We're not foolish. But I also enjoy each holiday for the uniqueness that is that particular celebration. After Thursday I'll decorate for Christmas and I'll be all "Bring it on!" for the Yuletide holiday. |
I managed to get the 3mm Swarovski rounds photographed on Sunday, along with a re-do of the 8mm rounds. I'm MUCH happier with the quality of those photos. I'm swamped with work now, though, and won't have time to massage the photos until tomorrow. My Wednesday is already looking like a totally insane day of pushing everything possible into a single day! I really wanted these up by the 1st of December, and if I had accepted the quality of my first batch of photos, I might (maybe) have made that deadline. But ... I think a Christmas deadline will be more realistic, so that's what I'm aiming for now. I still have a lot of resizing and small tweaks to do in Photoshop before I can upload them to Etsy.
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It's actually not difficult to take the photos (now that I've got the ring light all figured out). The time really comes in setting up and tearing down each individual page. The actual photo time is minimal. It's all opening individual packets of beads, arranging them on the grid, then "click" and putting the beads back into the individual baggies to move on to the next page. |
I'm getting exhausted just thinking about everything I need to accomplish between now and the end of the year. But I'm determined. It might not be much of a holiday for me and DH, but I don't want/need anything for Christmas, and DH would rather just have his white cake/white frosting for his birthday and ignore Christmas as well. We won't actually ignore it, but after our Thanksgiving sale, we concentrate on our big one - the 4-Day End of the Year Blowout Sale when pretty much everything in the store is at least 20% off. That Christmas money might as well be coming our way, right? LOL
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DH's favorite cake is white cake with white frosting - just a sheet cake. From Target. The difficulty in getting him that cake isn't the availability, it's the fact that I need it for the day after Christmas, when the bakeries have been closed for the Christmas holiday. Still, I try to get it for him every year, and it's always a bit of a challenge. |
So, I'm heading off to the pool. I only get two days of swimming this week, Thanksgiving Day is a holiday and the YMCA is closed. I'll be busy with a bird that day anyway, and wrapping up my holiday cards so that I can get them into the mail ASAP. That would be one more thing off my mental "to-do" list, and would make me very happy. Have an excellent Tuesday and Slava Ukraini. I'll be back tomorrow.
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