That quote above has been on my mind for the past week. I’ve been muttering it as a kind of mantra the past few days, and I feel like I’ve been really living it the last seven! It’s been an eye-opening experience, watching and catching myself doing what has become daily tasks that are really procrastination attempts in disguise. Staying focused was challenging, let me tell you.

Anyway, you know I took last week off to tackle two big projects, right – sorting destash beads and getting material done for my Elements class. I also used my time off to begin renovations and a move for Freshly Hued (it’ll be part of the blog shortly), tweak a few things on the blog, line up a few guest posts (March’s theme is going to be great), plan two vacations, and spring clean my office. I was on a roll.

It’s been a crazy time over here at Casa de Brandi, and I’ll spare you the boring details except to say that I’ve made definite progress on my class material (I’m about halfway done, which feels awesome), and I have managed to get my destash beads sorted, priced, photographed, edited, and listed (which was an event onto itself – how to bead suppliers do this every day?).

Honestly, looking at what’s done when compared to all of the things I had to do to get here, it doesn’t look like a lot at all because most of it was behind-the-scenes stuff. There are still more beads to be sorted and listed, still more class work and fine tuning left to do, I still need to clean the closets, and it’s a very good thing I like editing photos because there were several hundred to go through. I could have (and wanted to) extend the break out another week, but keeping that “work expands” quote in my mind, I figured let’s stick to my original deadline. And after a week of crazy busy days, I’m exhausted, but kind of proud at what I managed to do.

More on my class as that project progresses, but as for the destash? It’s all right over here. More will be coming (because I haven’t even gotten started on the findings yet, oy), but at least this is a start, right?

What’s been going on with you?

 

P.S. If you’re looking for the boros, I’ve got them photographed, just not listed in the destash shop right yet. Email me if you want to take a peek at them.