I spent mother's day weekend just relaxing at home. I've been dealing with some annoying health issues the last couple weeks that have made sleeping a bit difficult. Luckily I was able to sleep in over the weekend. :) While I couldn't sleep...I built an amazing house on my Sims 4 game and got all the laundry done. :P Oh! And I hung up the new curtains for the sliding glass door. The curtains that we'd had were at least 13 years old (Johnny had them up when I moved in) and they were double-layered...but the thin, white layer facing the door had torn from the cats playing in it and the dogs getting caught in it. It was sewn together on three sides of each panel, but the bottom wasn't sewn together so the cats liked to hide in there. They just weren't real heavy-duty for a backdoor. So I got a thicker set of black-out curtains in relatively the same color. They're the same curtains that we have for the living room window, just in a different color...so I knew they would be a lot more durable. We've had the living room panels for almost 5 years now and they're still in great shape. I got them here on Amazon (affiliate link: I may get a small commission at no cost to you for qualified purchases).
Since it was Mother's Day yesterday, I got a break from making dinner and got to pick where to order food from...so we had Hibachi Boy. :) And we ordered enough that we still have leftovers to eat tonight...so even better! Now that we've finished The Hunting Party, we've been catching up on episodes of SVU in between watching new episodes of NCIS, Tracker, and Organized Crime. We decided to get the Peacock streaming app...so during the day while I've been working, I've had episodes of Snapped playing. I feel like it probably says a lot about me that true crime shows are my emotional support background noise. ;) lol.
After taking a break from work over the weekend, I'm back at it today. I got most of my current orders done last night, but I have 2 magnets, a sticker, and a sticker sheet that I need to print, cut, and package today to go out in the mail tomorrow. Ooh! And I'm happy to report that I have perfected the cut settings on my Romeo for die-cut laminated stickers, magnets, and matte vinyl sticker sheets. I was most excited to make sticker sheets on the Romeo. They were pretty hit and miss on my Cricut Maker 3 because you can't fine-tune the cut settings like you can with the Romeo. I had to pick the "rice paper" setting and use a 30 degree blade instead of the deep cut blade that rice paper is set for, try to edit the preset down, AND choose "less pressure." But even if I got it to cut perfectly one time...the next time I'd try the same settings and the cut would be too deep into the backing. So when you'd try to take an individual sticker off the sticker sheet, it would go beyond the sticker and pull up a thin layer of the backing. It's honestly why I haven't spent a lot of time creating new products for my CandiMakerPlanners shop that has all my sticker sheets. But cutting them with the Romeo, it only took me two tries to figure out the perfect cut settings for sticker sheets. A lot of people said that the Leonardo Design software for the Romeo is difficult to learn...but I didn't have any problem adjusting to it. I like being able to save my cutting setting presets for each of my products...especially when I can set different levels of force for different cut lines. For sticker sheets...instead of copying the sticker sheet outline 5 times on Cricut Design Space so it'll cut all the way through, with Leonardo I can just set a lighter force for the individual stickers and then a separate increased force for the outline of the sticker sheet.
So now that I have the perfect sticker sheet settings, I think I'll spend some time designing some more sticker sheets. But it'll have to wait until I finish working on my Faire listings. A friend of mine from the sticker maker Facebook group said she was thinking about joining Faire, and I gave her my referral code. I took it as a sign that I really need to stop just saying I'll get to it sometime and *actually* start working on it. I'm completely revamping everything. Right now I'm working on changing my listing photos. It's a daunting task when I have more than 300 designs, but I think it'll be worth it. It's more cohesive to my brand and I really like the new look. I'm hoping to have it all done by next weekend...but we'll see how that goes.
And on that note...I should probably get back to work!