Friday, June 6, 2025

Finally the weekend!

I'm so glad it's FriYay today. Even though I usually still work over the weekend, I can sleep in a little bit and the days go at a different pace. Sometimes I'm even more productive during the weekend than I am during the week! 

Yesterday was the first headache-free day I had in 6 days. So that made the week seem a lot longer. But I was super productive yesterday. Now that I have my Romeo, sticker sheets are SO much easier and my cuts are consistent. I don't have to worry each time that the Cricut cut too deep or not enough. Plus it's faster on the Romeo. I love that I can set a different force and speed for the die-cut outside edge of the sticker sheets than the kiss-cut stickers on the sheet...and it's super easy to do. I bought another blade holder for the Romeo so that I don't have to adjust the blade at all now that I've found the perfect depth for sticker sheets. I hadn't spent a whole lot of time making new sticker sheets because it was such a pain making them, but now I'm excited about them again. 

Anyway...so yesterday I started revamping CandiMakerPlanners. I hadn't yet updated all the listing photos in that shop to match my other shops, so I'm doing that...which includes taking new product photos as well. And since my outer cut on the sticker sheets is different now, I am printing and cutting all new sticker sheets. I also decided to batch together similar sticker sheets into the same listing. That way, if someone finds my listing through search instead of visiting my shop to see that I have other sticker sheets in the same subject and style...now they are all in the same listing so it's easier to see them. 

I've already started making some new sticker sheets. I have one new sheet of annual holidays that I already have done...just have to finish getting it listed. And I'm making a 12-month set of everyday holidays that I'm pretty excited to work on this weekend. After I get those done, I'm going to work on some new return address labels. I'm always finding new ways to keep myself busy! 

I'm still loving the new layout of my office. The only thing I don't have is a good place to take photos. Right now, I've attached my phone tripod to my desk and I can put the board with my laminated background on the floor and take pictures that way. It's not ideal...but it'll work for now until I figure something else out. Oh! And I hit 2500 sales in my CandiMakerStickers Etsy shop today. :) 

Today I took Nova to the vet to get her Cytopoint allergy shot. They last 6-8 weeks and her last shot was on April 9th. They're expensive, but it helped her a lot. She didn't have any problem with her allergies until last week. Now she has quite a few scabs...especially a large one on her head. We went ahead and had the vet shave that spot on her head and we have some powder to put on it that has an antibiotic, steroid, and a numbing agent to make her a little more comfortable and hopefully heal it up sooner. Nova doesn't mind going to the vet. There's lots of people and animals and she's always excited to meet new friends. I guess Bozley cried the whole time we were gone, though. Johnny said he just kept howling and barking. He wouldn't even eat his duck jerky treats that he usually loves. He's going to be really not excited next week when he goes to get neutered. Unlike Nova, he hates going to the vet. :P 

Well...I want to get a lot done today so I'm going to get back to that. I hope everyone has a good weekend!