Our days
are pretty crazy. You would think we’d
be into the lazy, hazy days of summer.
Well, there is no time to be lazy - as anyone who has started a business
knows – especially a handcrafted business.
We’re trying to get ahead for the holiday season by not only making our
regular line of items, but by creating new items whenever we can and of course
adding Christmas jewelry and Halloween Jewelry.
Oh, my!
Our days generally
start at about 4:00 in the morning, and I am writing this at 9:00 in the
evening – long days. As I said in my last
posting, I try to take a day off now and then, just to refresh myself and find
some balance. Thankfully, I enjoy what I
do, but it is a lot of work and very time / labor intensive - especially our
Scrabble Bracelets! We have bracelets just for dog lovers and all kinds of Scrabble bracelets with different themes. I love how the bracelets
look when they are done. I love
trips to the bead store. I love the
feedback we get about them. But…boy, are
they work. We even spell different things on the inside of each bracelet. Scrabble pendants may be a
better way to go for mass production because they are not as labor intensive
and do not have as many steps as the bracelets, and we do make some of those as
well, but we love the bracelets! So, we
do what we can.
My husband
hand drills all the tiles. It was quite
the process figuring out the best way to do that with no poked fingers, broken
Scrabble tiles or burning wood. He also does the finishing
work of tying and trimming. He has
worked to perfect his “trick” to making the elastic stay without coming untied,
etc. The rest is up to me. We make a good team really.
Well, my
day has come to an end. 4:00 am comes
mighty early, so I best be off to sleep.
Who knows what wonderful new Scrabble Art design I may dream about...
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