A Typical Day at COLORBOMB Creations HQ

Ever wonder what it's like to be a self-employed spinner? What the hell do I do around here, you ask? Walk a day in my (colorful) shoes with me, as I conduct a day's worth of COLORBOMB Creations business.

• Up at the crack of 9:30, and by 'up', I mean snuggling with the C-man in bed while watching a Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List re-run;

• Om nom nom, coffee #1 and oatmeal, courtesy of sweet Cole;

• Check email - no sales during the night = sad Velma;

• Hmm, there's a request for a custom spinning order! Labradoodle yarn? I can do that! Research, draft estimate, pop off email to potential new customer;

• Read & answer the rest of the night's emails;

• Coffee #2;

• Check VWorld site stats, write a Tweet, send a DM to @ravelrystatus to update my profile, read Ravelry PMs & Flickr messages, reply to blog comments - discover 2 new technology sites I *must* try out: Picnik and Haloscan;

• Edit photo from yesterday's blog post using the Picnik photo editor on Flickr to test it out - love! Upload to my Flickr photostream;

• Send thank you note to Xao_T for her offer to send me vintage 70s embroidery transfers - thx again, Tina!!;

• Start drafting this brilliant blog post (no *way* I'll remember all this by the time I'd actually sit down to write it);

• Resist urge to walk across the street and bitch slap the (presumably) pinky-dicked neighbor who *insists* on gunning the engine *every time* he backs out of the drive;

• Compulsively check VWorld stats again, then mull (for the thousandth time) what distinguishes a high-traffic day from, oh, say today - decide I need to exploit the buttload of referrals I get from the Google search "penis knitting" (where I turn up #1 in the search results!) by writing a pattern for one;

• Take a call from a friend who visited one of the new yarn stores in Eureka (YARN) & wanted to make sure I'm on it about getting my yarns in there (I am) - love friends who have my back - thank you Lisa!;

• Check email again & learn that, oh crap!, I'm behind again, & that my December Ravelry ads bill is due - doh!;

• Read & answer new emails;

• Realize it's 3pm & I haven't done any spinning at all!;

• Unpack & reassemble Harry (my main wheel) and sit down with the merino singles I started yesterday at the spin-in, destined to become a LoopyDoopy coils yarn;

• SPIN! got in a solid hour of spinning;

• Ooh, quick-quick like bunny: suck-up-the-last-of-the-natural-daylight photoshoot so I'll have a pic for Monday's blog post - got one;

• Yummy treat from Cole, back from his errands in town: last of the Co-op's winter mandarins from Orinda;

• Download pics from camera, upload to Flickr, edit with Picnik, add to blog post;

• Write Monday's post &, well, post it;

• Soak the WoolyBear singles that has been resting on the skeinwinder - damn, almost out of FiberMaster, & they don't make it anymore;

• Check in on Ravelry;
  

• Get in another hour of spinning, finishing up the merino singles - woo hoo!;

• 7pm dinner break: mmm, burgers & fries take-out from HumBrews, courtesy of a Par Infinity raffle prize gift certificate;

• Tried to install Haloscan comments, but crapola, they've been acquired by JS-Kit, which I think is ugly, so I can't - heavy disappointment;

• Cocktail time and blogsurfing;

• 8:15 - calling it a day!
  

Didn't get to everything on my list, but who ever does? It was a fairly productive day, all in all.

After finishing, I grabbed needle, thread, & thimble and sewed this patch on my spinning bag. It's the logo for a band that, although I don't much care for their sound, I love their name! I've had it forever, & have been meaning to mark my wheel bag territory with it for awhile. (But I've gotta say: sewing needles and tequila do not mix!) This is what it looks like now.

When I finished, I picked up my StonerJaywalkers and knit a few more rows before turning in with Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire, which I am really enjoying; I'm in the tulip section.

Tags: Monday, COLORBOMB Creations