Hello, my friend!
Can I just say, it’s so nice to be sitting at my keyboard in my PJs at the start of a Saturday? I haven’t spent much time writing this week because work has been draining lately. I come home feeling like my life force has been sucked out of me by a baby vampire, LOL! All I have left when I get home is just enough energy to make dinner and prep things for the next day, so I apologize if I’ve been MIA lately. I haven’t been feeling particularly creative or chatty. Just tired.
Question for you. Does the workload at your job ebb and flow? Or is the work more steady? I’m finding out that mine has these cycles where things will be very slow for a few weeks, and then just like that, it’ll pick up, and if I’m not on top of it, I get buried in details very quickly. If it wasn’t for my tracking spreadsheets, I’d be a mess.
The interesting thing to me is that the work isn’t technically hard. It’s very detail oriented, though, and having to concentrate for hours on making sure numbers and dates and copy are consistent across different programs takes a lot more out of me than I expected.
Anywho, things are still going well, and I like the work. Next month will be my fourth month there, and I’m finally starting to feel settled.
Earlier this week we had a team-building exercise making spring wreaths, and guess what? I found out that I kindasorta love making wreaths. I know, so random. I got to make a spring wreath out of fresh cuttings from trees and shrubs from the college farm, and I absolutely loved it.
I started by taking olive branches as my base and tying them together with green floral wire. Then, I clipped off the stiff parts of the stems with shears. Then, I just kept adding different branches to fill out the wreath. I used cherry blossoms, sage and rosemary.
I think what I liked most about the exercise was the process of trying different combinations of colors and leaves to see where the wreath would go. I think there’s something very freeing about not having a plan and letting the creativity flow!
When I brought it home, the first thing I did was put it on my door, and then I took about a jillion pictures of it.
If you ever get the chance to make a wreath, do it! You just might love it. 🙂
Other than being kinda buried at work and sneezing my way through my days (it’s allergy season for me in Nor Cal), I’ve been OK. How has life been on your end of the keyboard? Got any fun plans for the rest of today?
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
Pretty! I find often that making something is both relaxing and a mood-lifter at the same time.
Totally! I haven’t made something with my hands in a while. It was definitely a mood lifter!
My workload varies a lot too! At the beginning of the semester, it’s “hurry up and wait.” There’s dates I need to enter but I first need the syllabus from the professor. The one consistent thing is Tuesdays and Thursdays I teach labs at 11 and 2, and I need to prep all the materials for those as well. I feel like buckling down to really concentrate on a task gets harder as I get older too! I hope you are able to rest and refresh this weekend! We’re supposed to get a snowstorm tomorrow, yuck!
Oh and I loooove your wreath! I feel like all the fake spring wreaths out there are made to look like yours!
Thank you! I had a fake spring one on the door and wanted to replace it ASAP with this fresh one. I think I’m going to let it dry out for a bit, and then try my hand at another one.
How are you and the fam doing?
Stay safe in the snowstorm. 🙂
Beautiful! There is something rewarding and refreshing to have something you made on display for all to see! Yes, my job varies from day-to-day; I wouldn’t have it any other way. Enjoy your weekend!
Thanks, Julie. The wreath was so satisfying! I can’t wait to make another one. 🙂
Have a great weekend!
Beautiful wreath, Karen and I bet it is fragrant too! There’s nothing like an original ❤️
Such a beautiful wreath you made! It’s a proud feeling when you create something that turns out so well 💗
Thank you, Diana!
It smells lovely! Mostly like rosemary. 🙂
That’s really pretty! I especially like the blue-ish flowers. Are those sage?
Wreaths are so expensive now that I’m probably not going to get one, even for next Christmas. I have an old Christmas (fake) wreath that’s in pretty good shape – on the fake greenery it has silver-glitter ball ornaments, and pink silk poinsettias. And a pinecone. And a fancy white bow.
I know what you mean about being exhausted at work. Even when I was 23, my low-grade job was exhausting – and their employee turnover was pretty bad, even in a bad economy, because it just didn’t pay enough to make the exhaustion worth it for a lot of people. I stayed because I was not very good at interviewing, and as a female, I was discriminated against because I didn’t look like a magazine cover. When you interview for low-level jobs, they just give it to the best-looking applicant, most of the time (and especially if the interviewer is male).
The blue flowers are rosemary!