
Running my jewelry business while working full-time in another job is nothing short of a challenge. My schedule today was typical:
8:00 a.m. – Get up; check and respond to pressing email
8:20 – Put toast into toaster
8:20-8:35 – Vacuum shop area to try to scare away any more centipedes lurking there (I killed two large ones last night…Ewww!)
8:35-8:45 – Eat breakfast
8:45 -9:20 – Exercise
9:20 – 9:25 – Finish folding laundry
9:25 – Shower
9:55 – Research a new design I’m doing for a client
10:15 – 10:55 – Review music for today’s Milwaukee Symphony rehearsal
10:55 – Leave for rehearsal
11:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. – Rehearse (Thank you Edo De Waart for letting us out 1/2 hour early!)
3:30 -4 – Drive a friend home and drop off a book for my husband at the library
4 – 5 – Update my Etsy shop
5 – 6:15 – Pay bills and research SEO for my blog
6:15 – Start making dinner
6:30- 7:15 – Teach a student
7:15-8 – Finish making dinner and talk to my husband on the phone
8:00 – Eat dinner
8:30 – Start making a pair of cuff links at the bench for a client
9:30 – Set diamonds in yesterday’s Autumn Leaves earrings and polish (Couldn’t get to taking a picture of them yet…that will have to wait ’til tomorrow)
11:00 – Come upstairs to post this blog (yes, the design above was drawn from my archives )
11:30 – TIME TO PLAY (Hah! Collapse is more like it…)
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