Busy Biz Blogs: Beaming & Busy

Yesterday was one of those days where nothing significant happened.
A day when I could summarize most of my day in a Facebook status that appeared something like this: Biz work-check, flu shot-check, vote-check, grocery shopping-check, workout-check, time to relax!

As you can see nothing exciting.

The exciting part came last night at nearly 9 p.m.

A friend from high school messaged me asking if I could help her out.

She had seen a picture project I did for my brother-in-law & Dad (both pictured below) last Christmas and was curious if I could make one for her to give to her husband. (In order to keep with my policy I'm not showing the entire projects to protect everyone's last name)

All of these letters are pictures I took here in Austin.

I like to use a different font for each letter, even if there are repeating letters.

I was so excited to be offered the opportunity to share my creativity that I told her I would just charge her for the cost of the project and wouldn't take anything more than that. But, she said I had to charge for my services. So the reason I'm beaming is because this is my FIRST commissioned piece of work! I feel so honored.

The reason I'm busy is because for the past few days at work a vital co-worker has been out so I've been playing the part of 2 people each day. Our team at work should be fully staffed at 5 people plus our team lead. However, we are on a hard freeze and we have 4 people plus our team lead. The hard part is that one of our four is brand new so it's hard to count the individual because she is only assigned one task right now. With my other co-worker out my team lead puts a lot of responsibility on me. I don't mind it at all, in fact I like being a go to person, I like feeling valued.

Being busy at work means that my 7-3:30 shift gets over so quickly!

I'm just hoping my co-worker is back tomorrow, because I'm feeling a little tired and I'm not sure how much longer I can hold on like this. We are busy enough even with a full staff.

Another reason I'm beaming is because today I received another request for a photo project (same type as above).

I'm excited to look for letters on my drive home from work each day and I can't wait for a sunny Saturday to go out with the camera!

So all in all life is going phenomenally well right now. We are about 20 days from Thanksgiving (My Dad is coming!!!), which means 1 month 20 days until Christmas when we get to Kansas to visit the rest of the family (My Mom & her husband, Bud's Mom & Step-Dad, Bud's Dad & Step-Mom, & 1 of Bud's brothers). We also get to see a lot of friends while we are up there! It's an exciting time of year!

I hope you are all having a blessed Wednesday!

P.S. I finished Bud's step-mom's birthday present...it's only going to be a week late...but I think she'll like :)