It's hard to believe it's the last day of June already!
Johnny and I are officially empty nesters! Aubry moved in with her boyfriend over the weekend. She's had it planned for several months to move out during the week long plant shutdown at work. She got everything except her dresser moved...she has to wait until she can make some room for it and then use my grandma's truck to get it over there. Aubry moved most of her stuff on Friday and then came back on Sunday to get the rest of her stuff and then clean up her room and bathroom.
So now it's just us, the three cats, and our two golden retrievers. I'm looking forward to reorganizing the basement and cleaning out everything that we're going to either get rid of or put in the garage sale. We are still storing all of Johnny's mom's stuff (she's in a home in Washington)...and I want to reorganize it all in one spot. It started out in Aubry's room until she moved back in. Then I had all been in the closet of the cat room (which used to be Ashlyn's room), but when the room flooded from the broken pipe, I moved out everything that wasn't up on the closet shelf into the family room. I'm thinking about moving it all back into Aubry's closet where it was originally...but I haven't decided yet. It'll probably still be a little while before I work on all that, because I have a lot of work-related projects that I want to get done first.
Oh, and we had to replace the front door handle. We'd talked about replacing it before so that it would match the rest of the hardware that we have going on in the living room, we just hadn't gotten around to actually doing it. Well...the existing door knob broke last weekend so now it matches. ;) The only thing we really have left to switch out in the living room (aside from eventually getting new furniture) is the ceiling fan. Aside from not being the same colors as everything else in here, it also doesn't move much air at all. Even on the highest speed...it's pretty slow.
Johnny had a productive weekend. The pile of branches that were in the backyard had been sitting there since storms we had in the last couple years. So when we had all the branches hauled off, there was a big bare spot. So over the weekend, Johnny put down some grass seed and topsoil. He also installed the light kit for the ceiling fan in the garage. Luckily it was easy to add on without having to take the entire ceiling fan down. It came with some lightbulbs...but Johnny hates yellowy lightbulbs so I ordered some more of the white LED bulbs that I've been getting from Amazon. They're a lot brighter and don't have the yellow hue.
I'm still working on the Holiday Every Day sticker sheets. I finished August today...so just a few more months left! It's taking longer than I thought it would, but I like how they're turning out. I was hoping to have them listed by July 1st, but hopefully I can get them done by the end of this week. I also ordered some new matte sticker paper that is 11x17, so I can fit more sticker sheets on each page. With a regular sheet of paper, I can only fit one 5x7 sticker sheet on the page (and an additional 4x6 sticker sheet if I want), but I can fit four 5x7 sticker sheets on the 11x17 page.
I also ordered some foldable brackets for $10 that I want to put on the wall under the window in my office. Since rearranging my office, I haven't had a good place to take product photos. My office is pretty small, so I wanted something that wouldn't take up more space. This way...I can just lift the shelf up when I'm taking pictures and then fold it back down against the wall when I'm not using it. So I'm excited about that...hopefully it works out well.
My customized name label sticker sheets have started selling again. They're most popular when kids are getting ready to start school again. I've already made 4 of those sticker sheets this month...which is actually the same number that I'd sold last June as well. It picks up a lot more in July and August and then I just get a sporadic order for them here and there.
June was my best month so far in 2025. I tied May with number of orders (134) and I surpassed my previous month of highest profit (March) for 2025. I'm glad for the progress. :)
I'm going to get back to work on these sticker sheets before I go to bed. Hope everyone has a good week!