If you thought that the weeks went fast before, it is nothing compared to now when I combine work, homework, baby and other small projects such as sewing, writing a book, etc. I was completely shocked that the weekend is already here!

But I have had a lot done this week, nothing super interesting but things that "hung over" me a bit and made the to-do list long and boring. So it is with a nice feeling in my body that I end the week :)

Customers at the salon!
Since I have been on "parental leave" in January and mostly worked from home, it was extra fun on Monday when I had customers on the conveyor belt at the salon.

Some regular customers who come regularly I meet much more often than many friends and family members, so it did not feel like a job but like hanging out with friends you have not seen for a long time and had a lot of talking to catch up on :)

Annika and I talked about weddings before, in general, there is nothing on g;) and I said then that there are many customers that I had wanted to invite instead of many relatives haha. That's actually the case!

Here I am coloring my eyebrows at one of my super good customers! Note our stylish watch in the background with the Creative Makeup logo on;)

Shop financially
I really do not have much money if you would compare with the majority of you who read, but I am good at saving! This is really cliché but it is not the high income that makes you rich but the low expenses and even though I also think that "you should invest to win" it does not mean that you should spend money on things unnecessarily - which is very many do!

Instead of buying a new bikini now that mine has become sun-bleached and ugly, I sewed it again! A pair of old training pants is now a black bikini top instead;) But I still needed to buy new bikini bottoms for the new top and was struck by how extremely much summer clothes are on sale now!

I have not traded properly with clothes for many years, the majority of my clothes are used and old with holes and stains that do not go away. So either you can call me crazy or you can call me smart as attan, but last Monday night I clicked home some great summer clothes and shoes in JANUARY! The companies want to get rid of residual stock and I want to save money, win win;)

It was up to 70% sale and when I was done I calculated that I paid an average of 165 SEK per thing. For jumpsuits, dresses and shoes that would actually cost 300-400 pieces. So good!

And do you know how I feel now? I feel like my wardrobe is complete! As you know, I indulged in a brand new wardrobe before Christmas as well. I need nothing more and it feels incredibly nice !! It's easy to want to shop every month if you think it's fun with clothes, but I'm happy like this. Now it's shopping stop for a while!

When you are short, it is good to be able to sew because all trouser legs are too long haha. In addition, I had a whole pile of broken clothes that could be repaired, so good for the wallet to be sewing!

Clean body and writing & health journey
We really had no plans to leave but now that I got sick for the 7th month in a row, Miska got enough. He has seen documentaries about healing and how stress and life situations you do not enjoy can settle in the body and form diseases. I'm fine now, but the intense autumn may have left its mark. Do you believe in that? :) I do not know what I think myself but I think in any case that health care does not have the answer to everything, the pharmaceutical companies want to sell medicines and a lot is about curing symptoms and not the basis for things.

Since I do not want to operate on my tonsils, I will now start a mental and physical cleansing of myself instead! First of all, I have booked an appointment tomorrow to take out my IUD. I'm really happy with it, but since it's so clear every month that I get sick, I think the hormone balance may have a part in it all? In addition, I have started to think it's a bit sick that I do not know how my body is without hormones when I have had it since I was 14 years old. And then I had a "crying night" a week too haha because I realized that a customer told me before that she realized that every time she got a cold she really only needed to cry.

And so Miska said one night "now I book so you can have a holiday and just relax". I LOVED our trip to Spain but it was in the middle of a rage so the peace did not last long. But now it will be hotel cozy for 2 weeks without me coming home to stress afterwards. In addition, I will use this time to write my book! :) God so cozy!

This candy that I sewed the trouser legs on will be a holiday favorite ♥ In the background you see Annika on the floor sewing "dregglisar" and Miska rocking baby in her arms. Speaking of mental health, these people are my saviors in need, it is thanks to them that I feel as good as I do! :)

Extra many step-by-step make-up
A task that I spend a lot of time on but almost never write about in the business week posts is all the make-up I do for the blog and webshop. You see them in all other posts so it feels like redundant info.

Now that we are going to have a holiday for 2 weeks, I have to put in an extra gear so that the blog does not stand still when I am away. I usually do three make-up posts a week, but now I try to make a make-up every day so that I have blog material when we are away!

Each make-up takes an average of 2 hours maybe, not in pure make-up time, but I take photos between each step and then lots of full pictures. So even though there will only be about 10-15 pictures for each blog post, I have taken over 100 pictures which I then go through and write the post. Now I happen to be so spoiled that I have an employee who works from home with the webshop and who does a large part of the after-work of cutting together tutorial collages and putting everything in the webshop with links and stuff. Without it, I would not have had time with the blog at all, every post takes so long!

You are so good looking when you are half done haha :) This is my happy place!

Salaries, reports, invoices etc.
In addition to customers this Monday, I have mostly sat in front of the computer this week. It has been unusually much emailing, but also I was behind with all the "end-of-month job" because I was ill last week, so I have been busy with salaries, reports, invoices and such.

Holidays
And so I have gone through the summer schedule properly, approved everyone's holiday wishes and opened up schedules August through! I'm waiting for an answer from one of our makeup artists regarding a detail, but after that the whole summer schedule is ready!

Summer schedule for our new makeup artist Shafiee
What took the most time was the schedule for our new makeup artist Shafiee when Lisa will be on maternity leave last April, but Shafiee can not take over her passport completely until June. So May will be a "hopeful" schedule and then the summer schedule will be adapted to Lisa's schedule and the others' vacations :) Shafiee is actually her last name, her name is Sara but we will get so much misunderstanding at the salon if we have two with the same name so the new Sara gets to be Shafiee instead haha :) Perfect with a last name that fits as a first name, "our new makeup artist Karlsson" would not have been so fun but Shafiee is great as a first name!

Shafiee training
We have also planned a proper training period for Shafiee which starts already now. She knows makeup and eyebrow plucking, but permanent eyelash (lash lift) is a huge part of the job and requires more practice than you might think and in addition she has to get to know our products to be able to hold makeup consultations.

So now we have planned an intensive start with training and hopefully extra work already in April. It is important that she gets really soft in her shoes before she jumps into the summer rush, we learned that last year. It is not good to be completely new at work in June because then we are fully booked with customers on the conveyor belt and if you have not gotten into the routines at the workplace before that, it will be stressful. And that's not how it should feel!

So now it's deluxe training already from February, the summer will go like butter :)

Mostly I have been sitting like this all week! It always looks a little fun when I put on make-up for the blog in the morning and then work from home all day with party make-up in bed :) Here I sit with the schedule, write on two blocks and a computer at the same time, order and order!

I have worked a lot during the weekend as well and I will continue to do so even today. When you have been ill, it becomes cotton for the soul to roll up your sleeves and delete points from the to-do list! :)

Have a great Sunday everyone! ♥