Whew!

This has been a big week at Studio Jessica. It began with me feeling under the weather, and having to take trip to the doctors to get some antibiotics. I have also had the pleasure of living with a headache for most of the week… but all of that certainly paled into the background with everything else going on.

Firstly, I have been featured on two very lovely sites this week. The lovely Steph (one of my customers, who loved her little square hoops) hosted a giveaway of two pairs of my little square hoops on her food blog. If you hurry, you’ve still got a few hours to enter!

Also, I’m lucky enough to have been chosen to be this week’s “In the Studio” feature over at Cafe Handmade. Whether this has contributed to my next bit of good news, I don’t know!

Oh, and in the name of being honest… If you check out the Cafe Handmade feature there is a picture of my desk… very clean. This is what it looks like today, and is more its natural state…

The most exciting part of this week is that I have had 10 sales on Etsy! Now, that brings me up to 40 sales overall since October last year… so you can see what an amazing thing 10 sales in a week really is!

I have been amazed, excited, overwhelmed – and slightly scared – by my success this week. I had been used to getting a sale once a week, or every few weeks, so to get such an influx has really made this a memorable week. I have been madly hammering, soldering, polishing, packaging… and I’ve got more ahead of me this weekend. I want to say an enormous thank you to all my customers – it really means so much when someone will part with their hard-earned money for some little thing I’ve made for them!

Since I’ve got the BrisStyle market coming up, and I’ve started making rings, I decided to invest in a good-quality ring-sizer this week, too.

It’s so pretty, and shiny, and tool-like… oh, and I am lusting after this hammer – rosewood handle, solid steel head.. droooool. After my current planishing hammer started to flake – obviously not solid steel as I thought! – I’m looking to invest in good quality tools.

I am now sitting here watching TV – and watching Nick trying to convince the cat to sit on his lap and be petted – it’s not having any of it, and is sooking down the end of the couch.

We’ve got lots planned for this weekend! I’ve got the market to prepare for, and a number of custom orders to make. Nick and I also have to get out wedding invitations made, as we really should send them out by the end of June! Also, Nick got notification that they will grant his Prospective Spouse visa – but he has to be out of the country to get it. So, we’ve decided to fly to New Zealand for a week during my holidays. We’ve got to get that organised too (it’s only two weeks away now, eep). Oh, not to mention we’re visiting my parents on Saturday night, and having friends round on Sunday – whew! Wish me luck, people!

**Update – Nick was hankering for ice-cream, so I am now sitting here facing a tub of Baskin Robins – I got a new tea flavour, and I hope it’s good. That is all.**

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