Sunday, April 5, 2009
It's OVER!
YAY! The yard sale is done! As of 4pm yesterday, I am officially done with the big merch warehouse and yard sale...for now. We're doing it again in October, but let's not dwell on the future! Now I can get back to stressing about centerpieces and fashion shows. Hooray!
Friday, April 3, 2009
When it rains...
WOW!
I have been massively busy for the past month and a half. It's all so very exciting. I have met new people, possibly made new friends, and really branched out. I know that this was a goal I set myself this year, but I had NO idea it would start happening this fast. "This fast? Sasha, it's April" you may say. For me, that's fast. I figured it'd take at least until Fall for me to establish friendships and find something to get me out of the house. I figured out the secret to making new friends...look amongst acquaintances of old. I'm the type of girl who simply barges forward to shake a worthy looking person's hand and suddenly latch on like a barnacle if they reciprocate one tenth of my interest. This has almost always ended in disaster. Ever since an unfortunate end to a unequal friendship a few years ago, I've become reclusive and wary of making friends. I'm still friendly, but I'm hesitant to let anyone in to my life. I know that this can't be healthy. A girl needs friends, and while my husband is my one true friend that's always there for me and knows me best, it's nice to be able to girl talk with other girls.
So I've managed to re-connect with someone who's also a married mom in the same situation I am, but she's far better connected and so much more organized. I've been helping her with a really cool yard sale to benefit a local music resource center for kids. Musictoday (www.musictoday.com) has been awesome in donating old merch that's no longer viable on the site. There's a HUGE warehouse of the stuff. For the past three weeks or so we've been sorting through the stuff and organizing it and boxing it up for transportation. It's been interesting and sometimes boring, as all repetitive tasks can be, but it's gotten me out of the house and made me feel useful. I've also had quite a lot of fun hanging out with B. The yard sale happens on Saturday and we'll be happy to see the tail end of that.
Immediately after the yard sale ends, I'll be diving into making centerpieces for a charity dinner that coincides with the fashion show I'm doing makeup for and the wedding the next day that I'm also doing makeup for.
I also got a really cool call yesterday from a really talented photographer. Check out her site at www.andreashirey.com . Her stuff is AMAZING. She's looking for a couple of makeup artists that she feels confident in working with for some projects. This is why I need to get my portfolio together. I kept the poor woman on the phone for an hour just yammering on. I need to be careful of that. I just get so excited!
So yeah, excitement abounds. Oh yeah, and then there's J, who is an amazing crafter that I try to get together with once a week. She's fantastic. I'm hoping a friendship grows out of that too. Ok, my laptop is running out of juice and I need to plug it in, I also need breakfast and I seriously need to do laundry. I'm off at breakneck speed!
I have been massively busy for the past month and a half. It's all so very exciting. I have met new people, possibly made new friends, and really branched out. I know that this was a goal I set myself this year, but I had NO idea it would start happening this fast. "This fast? Sasha, it's April" you may say. For me, that's fast. I figured it'd take at least until Fall for me to establish friendships and find something to get me out of the house. I figured out the secret to making new friends...look amongst acquaintances of old. I'm the type of girl who simply barges forward to shake a worthy looking person's hand and suddenly latch on like a barnacle if they reciprocate one tenth of my interest. This has almost always ended in disaster. Ever since an unfortunate end to a unequal friendship a few years ago, I've become reclusive and wary of making friends. I'm still friendly, but I'm hesitant to let anyone in to my life. I know that this can't be healthy. A girl needs friends, and while my husband is my one true friend that's always there for me and knows me best, it's nice to be able to girl talk with other girls.
So I've managed to re-connect with someone who's also a married mom in the same situation I am, but she's far better connected and so much more organized. I've been helping her with a really cool yard sale to benefit a local music resource center for kids. Musictoday (www.musictoday.com) has been awesome in donating old merch that's no longer viable on the site. There's a HUGE warehouse of the stuff. For the past three weeks or so we've been sorting through the stuff and organizing it and boxing it up for transportation. It's been interesting and sometimes boring, as all repetitive tasks can be, but it's gotten me out of the house and made me feel useful. I've also had quite a lot of fun hanging out with B. The yard sale happens on Saturday and we'll be happy to see the tail end of that.
Immediately after the yard sale ends, I'll be diving into making centerpieces for a charity dinner that coincides with the fashion show I'm doing makeup for and the wedding the next day that I'm also doing makeup for.
I also got a really cool call yesterday from a really talented photographer. Check out her site at www.andreashirey.com . Her stuff is AMAZING. She's looking for a couple of makeup artists that she feels confident in working with for some projects. This is why I need to get my portfolio together. I kept the poor woman on the phone for an hour just yammering on. I need to be careful of that. I just get so excited!
So yeah, excitement abounds. Oh yeah, and then there's J, who is an amazing crafter that I try to get together with once a week. She's fantastic. I'm hoping a friendship grows out of that too. Ok, my laptop is running out of juice and I need to plug it in, I also need breakfast and I seriously need to do laundry. I'm off at breakneck speed!
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