Certainly busy and Enjoyable DaB

My jobs/tasks for today are:

• hoover top to bottom / wash floors
  
• fondant ice cake completed
  
• complete page boy alterations (4) and shorten top sleeves (collection tomorrow) completed
  
• dust the lounge half
• Load more items to ebay made a start!
  
• Load 9 dolls clothes to my shop. sorted into groups ready to do!
  
• And general tidy the house.
  

Just as I finished all the customer alterations (4 page boys- trouser shortening and jacket sleeve shortening) Dolly rang and came round and brought a fair number of items for me to alter. I'm really pleased that the alterations business is picking up as it has been quite quiet the beginning of the year.

1. Dress - shoulders to take up
2. Dress shoulders to take up (need to remove sleeeves and put them bcak in)
3. Shorts to take in
4. Shorts to shorten and take in
5. Shorts to take in
6. Shorts in tke in
7. Binding/piping on her husbands trousers
8. Dress to shorten

Wow just found out from Dolly that there is a SALE on at Monsoon so I mentioned to hubby are we going to Bluewater this evening ..............only that I've just found out there is a Sale on at Monsoon and I love one of the dresses that the customer tried on me to alter so I'm hoping they will have it in my size otherwise I'm hoping that the skirt I liked when I popped in in June is reduced.

Its nice that the alteration side of my business is getting busy I like doing the alterations but its now finding time to upload all the dolls outfits to me new web shop that hubby created I am going to try and at least upload 9 a day -probably in the evening - to try and get organised as dolls outfits are in boxes that keep moving from room to room especially when I have customers.
And also in the evening I might try and plan the next day to try and get as much as possible fitted in to the day as there is so much I want to do like make tooth-fairy items and dolls to upload to my web shop or Etsy.

Bex cooked orange and choc biscuits today - once again very tasty! It was a recipe in Sam Stern book. Looking forward to her next culinary delight.

Bex also found out that Sam Stern had another book out so I brought that one from Amazon as it was the cheapest at £5.99.

I tried on several items including the skirt that I liked and the dress like the customer brought to me for alteration and finally decided on buying the skirt and a blouse, thought about a dress but decided against it. Hubby was very patient and afterwards he offered me a meal at the food-court and I choose Leon's one of my favourite restaurant and thoroughly enjoyed the meal I had the meatballs, hubby had the chicken along with sides hummus and flatbread. I treated him and myself of course to Joe Deluccis ice-cream/sorbet. Before collecting Mills we ended the evening with a drink at Starbucks I had earl grey tea while hubby had a latte. A very nice enjoyable evening.

I also treated myself the smooth-legs exfoliating kit. I hope its as good as it looks and sounds!!

When I got back Jean rang and I just thought she was going to rearrange the collection but more work as her husband wants a couple of trousers shortening. So I'm certainly going to be busy next week.

Friday fairy brought me Texas - the greatest hits music album, enjoying the music this evening while blogging. Also tried the smoothlegs exfoliating kit - not bad quite impressed but ~I'll have to wait and see - its certainly not quick so good for a pamper time evening!!!