Today was a good day

Leather work, "brand identity" work, breakfast out with Mozzie after two quick face to face meetings this morning, then he helped with some leather stuff and helped to chop out some mortises on the new workbench. 

Making good progress on the workbench, hoping to have the leg structures assembled tomorrow, tackling the aprons and top this week. As I hoped, working on the bench is helping to shake off some of the rust that developed with my woodworking being put on hold for the past few years. That and Mozzie and I are able to use this time to figure out a good process for working together, where he is able and comfortable to do certain tasks while I work on other tasks. Getting this figured out now will be a huge time saver when we begin working on the actual furniture projects coming up shortly. Working with him like this is a bit of a dream come true for me, he seems to enjoy it as-well. 

This past week I was reminded that I am much better with selling what I do in person as opposed to strictly online. Covid killed this part of who I am, the friendly out-going person, and I never quite got it back with my personal life going into a tail-spin in the midst of the Covid stuff. But, this past week I had “face time” with people related to my leather business (which as a brand I’m beginning to figure out what I do, why I do it, how to best explain it to people, etc) and it was MUCH more productive than all of the online stuff I currently do for it. I am thankful that I have rediscovered this skill/characteristic and am very eager to get back out there in-front of people. Doing so will be good for me and also will be very good for business. 

There’s a lot more with this line of thinking but I’m still working those thoughts out in my head. What I do know is that part of me went into hiding out of self-protection (a lot of me actually, but specifically the people person part of me), but it seems that now I’m finally getting parts of me back again...and I am both excited and relieved!

That’s enough for now. Hope you had a great day! Time for rest. 
~ Aaron