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Quiet rainy Sunday at the Berwyn Shops, but I sold a resin bookmark, and refilled my stock of autumnal embossed cards. Pretty pretty.

Taking advantage of the quiet rainy day in the shop to do some crafting — I’m a little low on stock because I only had a week to set up, so I grabbed a bunch of stuff from Berwyn Sprout, but now neither shop is as full as I’d like. Working on it. Autumn-gold hair

Been a hectic week getting the new shop open, but had a few hours tonight to do a resin pour. Nice to be moving into autumn florals. Goldenrod, butterflyweed, feverfew, zinnias. Leaves soon. Also working on some memorial roses.I’m going to try to catch up tomorrow with orders that came in here. Thanks for your

I had all kinds of ambitious plans for after work last night — I’d be home by 7, so surely there’d be plenty of time to sew up a few aprons and maybe some tea towels before bed? But instead I came home and crashed. Read for a while, then Kevin chopped onions for me

I did some more work planning the workshops. If approved by the higher-ups, I’ll set up registration links. (What would you use for this? Brown Paper Ticket? Sign-Up Genius? Something else?) I think what’ll be manageable in my space are 4 people at a time, 30 minute workshops. I won’t turn away walk-ins, if there’s

Portrait of a tired shop-owner.

Oof, tired! Glad Berwyn Shops offers a couple of coffee places; got a lovely caramel latte from Gricelda, and I think that’ll carry me through until 6. Yesterday was a little harried. I’d planned to paint and stencil the floor of my shed-store, and had bought paint and a stencil for that purpose. It would’ve

Progress photos — some things will likely move around, and I’m picking up one more piece of furniture on Monday, for the open wall space. Coming along, though!