BotanicalBird Giveaway - June 15th - 21st

This is the second giveaway I have done for BotanicalBird!
She is so great to work with!
She did the interview on the first giveaway -
you can find it here!
For this giveaway she wrote up a little about her daily routine + sent
us some fun pictures of her workspace!

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So I'm not real big on blabbing about my routine, especially since the really interesting things mostly happen when I am out of my routine, but still I hope you'll find this somewhat amusing.
About 6:00 AM I am awakened almost always by one of my 3 cats, although lately the crows are beating them to it by about 30 minutes. After taking care of the cats food, water etc., most days I'll make some tea and then go back to my bedroom, plop back down on my bed and then get on my laptop, to see what's happening on Etsy, and then onto my email etc. I almost always linger in bed with the laptop for another hour or so before actually emerging out of bed for the day.
When I'm finally up and going I head off to my jewelry studio....just down the hall, love the commute, in fact it is one of the true blessings about staying home and making jewelry for a living, so much less driving, which equals good things, like less stress, less time wasted in traffic, less money on gas...yay!!

Anyhow, next I see what jewelry orders need to go out and will begin to work on those, at this point most of the items in my store are made to order, it's quite rare that anything is actually made up ahead of time, unless I have just listed a brand new item or I've done a jewelry show and have some extras made up. Then depending on the flow of things I may or may not ship things that day, but I do end up shipping 3 or 4 times each week.
Another ongoing part of my routine is to be sure that I'm always listing some brand new designs, in order to keep things fresh and lively. Which by the way I will be adding many new designs over the next couple of weeks. So this process can be quite time consuming with making the new pieces, picture taking and writing descriptions.

Then there is also the ongoing ordering of supplies and bead store shopping, I buy both online and at local Portland stores, or if I'm traveling I love going to bead stores in various locations, you just never know what cool stuff you might find there.

I guess one other thing I should add is I get to take as many breaks as I need (most days) which is really great, I have a young kitty who loves to play so I will almost always take time out in the late morning to go out in the backyard and run around with him, I know that's just as good for me as it is for him, since it gets me outside and out of the my crazy bead mess for awhile. Oh, and lastly I try my best to take the weekends off, I always manage to take Sunday and at least half day Saturday.

So without getting into too much detail about each step, that's pretty much my day.
Thanks so much for reading and for supporting handmade!

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Item up for grabs: Green Garden Necklace by BotanicalBird

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This giveaway will end on June 21st at 11:30 p.m. (Central Standard Time). The winner will be notified by e-mail and it will be posted Sunday night on our blog. Please be sure you have provided a valid e-mail address. If there is no e-mail address provided to contact the winner, another name will be drawn. The winner will have 48 hours to respond to the e-mail notification with their mailing address. This information will then be forwarded to the sponsor. If this information is not received within 48 hours another name will be drawn.