that was unexpected

Goodness!  What a busy day today!  Sachi had a quiet Sunday despite the sunshine but was really busy on Monday.  I enjoyed my two-day weekend.  Now I'm at the store by myself for Tuesday and Wednesday, with a pile of projects.  I knew that some people would be in town between the holidays, but I was a little swamped.  Additionally, I had an altered books intro for a mother-daughter pair.  Luckily they were patient when I had to jump up from the table to ring up other customers.  The daughter is going to Greece for a semester and I am so jealous.  I would have loved to have been introduced to altered books before I went to Greece... but no, 10 years later and I'm kicking myself over the ephemera and photo ops that I passed by.  Oh well, incentive to go back someday.

I did manage to finish the photo snippet commission that was due today, and cut terrace chair pictures for more bracelets.  It occurred to me last night that I really shouldn't have let those run out - and sure enough today someone came in asking for them.  I'll have to finish a batch and email the pics to her since she lives out of town.  There's always something.  Tomorrow morning before work I'll run to the copy shop and copy the terrace pics so I can make bracelets tomorrow at the store.  I'm also hoping to finish my Christmas letter tonight so I can mail that out New Year's Day.  I'm so far behind -- I used to have all those addressed and sealed before Thanksgiving.  But it is better than last year when I didn't write until April of this year.  Still, it will be nice to finish that up and send those up.  I selected an assortment of pictures of me with Lily even though she isn't mine - those are my favorite pics of the year, our little self portraits, when I hold the camera up and take the pic.  So, if all goes according to plan, I can work on stuffing envelopes, heart ornaments and a jigsaw puzzle over New Year's Eve/Day.  The altered books this afternoon reminded me of many of my projects.... come to think of it, that would be a perfect thing to work on New Year's Eve.  I always like to have an art project to work on.. so glad I thought of that.  I didn't quite want to be in production mode working on magnet picture frames; I think I deserve a night of a non-Anthology related art project.