January 2008

We are already at January 11th?!! Where does the time go.... really!! I swear the older I get the faster the time flies. Does anyone else feel this way? Anyway, I know I have been absent for awhile, but there is only so much one can get done in a day and besides that I have taken a much needed break during the holiday vacation. Let me tell you it has been nice. Just hanging out with the kids, taking it easy, not rushing around, not having to pack lunches... oh the bliss. I have even stayed away from sewing... yup that's right! I haven't sewed a stitch. It's been a nice break, however, it wasn't always easy, there were days when I felt I was going into withdrawal... I felt I needed to sew, but I resisted, and made myself busy with something else. It's true what they say... you need to take breaks to recharge/refocus and look at things in a new light. I have so many ideas now floating around in my head. I can't wait to get back at it and start working on them.Monday, the kids went back to school and I had in my mind what my week was going to entail. That got kiboshed fast when some other things came up and they took priority over what I had planned to do. Anyway, everything has been looked after, but now I feel backlogged and am just trying to get back up to speed. One of the things that I wanted to look after this week was my accounting.... oh the dreaded accounting. I cringe. I procrastinate. I always find something else to do to avoid the nasty accounting. I tried working on it a bit last week, because lets face it, it is a fact of business and it really needs to get done, but oh how I dread it... OK enough wining. So like I said, I was working on it last week and the more I worked on it the more upset and annoyed I got. A few months ago I hired a bookkeeper to help me out to get me set up and tell me what I need to do to get things in order. Big mistake! I was finding out a lot of the stuff she told me was wrong.... lovely, pay someone a big chunk of change to tell me the wrong information.... great! Well, I fixed it.. so far, but no where near done and so when I told myself that Monday I was going to complete it and then I got sidetracked, as I easily am when I need to work on it, I see myself staring at the calender... it's Friday. A whole week went by and I haven't touched it, because after I got what I needed to look after, done. I of course found other things that needed my attention... and guess what won? Not the accounting.So I sit here, not working on my accounting, but posting about how I procrastinate and find other things to do when it comes time to do accounting. Do any of you have this same problem? What do you procrastinate about and how do you get down to working on something when you really have to but don't want to?Do you like the bag? It was one of my December birthday gifts I worked on. I have wanted to make this type of bag for awhile now and having a birthday come up gave me the perfect opportunity to work on it. I made it for my other sister-in-law. She, like me, likes to carry a backsack for a purse. With 3 small kids, it leaves her hands free. I on the other hand, like the hands free part, but also have issues with neck and shoulder problems and this helps to alleviate that. Anyway, I digress... the bag turned out great and I am really happy with the way everything went together. So now that I have that prototype under my belt, you can bet that this will be a new bag in the SilverLining Designs handmade handbag collection. The only thing I am having a problem with is the name... I always seem to have a problem with that and am never quite sure what to name them.

I guess I have procrastinated enough... I really must get down to work and so do all you other procrastinators who are reading this.... lol

Oh! and just before I go... good news to share. I became an aunt again to a little baby boy 8lb 8 oz... so sweet!