Two nights ago Zack and I were talking about how busy our lives are. I was explaining that it’s not ideal for me to be this busy. I work two jobs, write a blog post daily, and love every second of the buying, selling, and advertising aspect of Gussy. Can I confess something? I’d really like a few little friends to help me with my day-to-day tasks. Little mice friends, like Cinderella had :)
{P.S. Remember Gus the mouse?!}
When we moved-in, almost two months ago now {gasp}, there was so much on our plates. We had to unpack, start a new job/find a new job, get GUSSY back up and running {I took about a month off from sewing}, and try to remember where we live now that we’re in a new city. There are, after all, nearly 400,000 people that live in Minneapolis.
Yikes.
And we are just two of them!!!
Yikes!
Now that we’ve been here 7-ish weeks, there is {surprisingly} a lot on our plates still. I’m not as finicky as I was before about sewing daily, although there is no getting around doing some type of Gussy/sewing on a regular basis. I’m so excited to see what God has planned for us, specifically with sewing. Right now, given what He had planned for us to-date this year, I can’t even imagine what else He has planned…
Can you imagine it? I mean, my goodness! Moving 13 hours away with a weekend’s notice? Bahhh. However… with such short notice one good thing came from it: there was only one way to plan the move.
Whew.
Absolutely loved that part.
So like I mentioned above, I’d really like some little helper friends.
First on my to-do list:
Finish decorating the sewing room/office. If it wasn’t constantly decorated in ruffles maybe I’d notice this sooner than today…? Just a possibility.
Second, buy another chair. With having only two kitchen chairs {and one is broken}, and two office chairs, we’re still short a chair! No, no, there are only two of us. Yes, we do need five chairs in the apartment ;) Maybe I can find one at a second-hand shop?…
Third, hang Christmas lights in the sewing room. How inspiring would that be, to hang something that resembles a glimmer of Hope, when this sewing talent really has become a glimmer of Hope for me. I could most certainly work in an office that looked like this:
Oh, goodness… I wonder if Zack remembers where we put the Christmas lights…
Another area of our apartment {I believe this is point four} I’d like to decorate is a section of wall that is bare. Naked. Empty. White. Without color. See, there are lots of ways to describe it :) We have a lot of pictures to hang, we are simply missing the right photo frames. I’m really loving the layout of these frames:
{photo found here}
Do you ever have days where you let the devil in just a crack, only to find that BAMMM! The door gets slammed in his face.
Whoopsy. Shouldn’t have let him in.
I had a day like that yesterday.
Want to know who slammed the door?
It was God, and it was amazing. For the last two months I have averaged one sale per day, and to ratio to selling to an unknown buyer vs. a known buyer is growing. People, this is great stuff. This is rockin’ news!!! This new normal is something to celebrate. {Well, I hope it stays my normal.} :)
Back to the door slamming. A couple nights ago I was having a wishy-washy moment of, Do I keep going? Do I slow down? Or _____? Then yesterday, out of the kind of humor God has been showing me lately, He gives me four Etsy sales. Four! Remember how I average one? Yesterday I had four!!!!!!!!!!!!!
See, there are four. A lesson learned: don’t try to diss what God has planned out.
I have nothing else to write… Gussy is not questioning things any more…
“Never look back unless you plan on going that way.” <--- Nope! :)
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