My business week v. 49

It feels a little skewed to think back on the week that has been because we have had so much time, so it feels like two weeks in the same!

It may feel like that because we have done a lot on several various areas - when I wrote my last Sunday post just a week ago we had not even started the renovation of the new salon, the new schedule for 2019 was not finished yet and not even my photo corner at home was ready so I had not been able to take a single step -for-step-make-up in the new house / cottage than.

But now there are even more balls rolling and it is progressing by leaps and bounds!

Lunch with Peragenda
Last Monday I, Miska and Annika had lunch with Tommy who runs the company Peragenda, he kept up with the great business development we did almost 3 years ago. I'm 99% convinced that we had not been on the ballot with the company for so long and got it as good as it is now - if it were not for Tommy and Matilda at Peragenda. It is thanks to them that we have such a good structure with communication, routines, meetings, goals, sub-goals and that the staff are involved in everything.

It's so much fun talking business with Tommy! I said we should start an entrepreneurial podcast together haha.

Han är nördigt insatt i hur hjärnan fungerar och refererar ofta till olika studier vad man än pratar om, plötsligt flikar han in med meningar som “There is a study that shows that man hates loss 3 times more than he likes profit” obs nu minns jag inte om “3 gånger” var rätt så det kanske är lite faktafel men ni förstår poängen :) Jag älskar sånt! Att koppla ihop verkliga händelser med mental träning, förståelse för hjärnan och konkret problemlösning. Det blir inte bara floskler och citat som låter bra men inte går att applicera på verkligheten på ett enkelt sätt, utan konkret hur man ska lösa alla situationerna också, om ni förstår vad jag menar?

And so it feels a bit nostalgic to talk about the trip we made too, Tommy was involved from the beginning of the merger as we had lots of problems both because everything was new to everyone with such a large salon, but also because we were new managers completely without experience in connection with a staff that is far from as efficient and ambitious as we have today! Tommy is so proud of us he says, haha! It warms! :)

One more salon baby in May & new schedule 2019
Now the schedule for 2019 is finally ready and open for bookings. We opened all makeup artists for June and now the next step is to plan holidays so that we can open the schedule for the summer, all wedding bookings will start coming in soon!

Ett gupp på vägen (men ett roligt sådant!) är att Lisa kom in på kontoret och berättade att hon har en bebis i magen! Waah! ♥ Det kändes som en milstolpe för mig att vara “personen bakom skrivbordet” när man går in och berättat nyheten för chefen liksom. Det var en first time! Jag flög upp ur stolen och gav henne en stoor kram!! Så kul!!

So Lisa's schedule is only open April and we already have a makeup artist on the line who is interested. She will come and do test makeup at the salon first just so we can assess her knowledge in reality before she gets the job, but she feels spotless! She has just won the Cidesco Makeup & Bodyart Competition 2018 and also does effect makeup and hair styling.

Så Lisas “mamma-vikarie” och semesterschemat är kvar på min to do, men det viktigaste inför salongsflytten är ordnat nu i alla fall!

Then we could also advertise our relocation on social media!

Started renovation of the new salon
The salon we are moving to is, as I mentioned earlier, the same room that Annika had before we merged 3 years ago. Then it was completely renovated and fresh but after a number of tenants the floor is really worn, a wall has been moved so we have to tear it down and build a new one and in addition all the walls are crammed of nail holes and plugs. In addition, the latest tenant had left a lot of stuff as well, so the first item on the list was to get the room empty.

So there is a lot of work to be done before we can move all the furniture there on weekdays, but we are already well on our way! :)

Here I stand and punch holes in the wall! When we moved from Gimo, I only brought clothes that I am using right now, because the move is not completely finished yet, so I had no clothes I could ruin with paint - then I had to borrow this shitty jumpsuit that Annika has sewn! She threw it together to test different seams on her new sewing machine so it should not be used anyway, and you have to look good when you also paint;)

We had sandpaper left over from when we were renovating our current premises - but no wooden block. Then you have to be a little clever and I felt unreasonably smart when I realized that a tops box works just as well!

Here I paint with a make-up brush as a brush as well - you take what you have! :)

Now half the salon is painted and the wall I was talking about is not only demolished but also built in the right place as well! So next week the rest of the walls will be painted and then we will paint the floors as well (we have a fun idea for the floors which I hope will be as good as it is in our heads !!) then the basic job is done.

We are investing in being completely finished with the actual renovation work by next Sunday, but I am an incredible time optimist when it comes to renovation so I do not dare to promise too much haha.

The photo studio is ready!
This week I have been able to put on make-up in the new photo studio corner every morning and also make blog material with step-by-step make-up and product photos :) The first step was to get everything here, the second step was to clean the attic so that I could place with everything and the last step was to get good light with a white background.

I found a roll of white oilcloth at the salon, unfortunately it consisted of several small parts and not a large one, but after a bit of thinking I got it great!

När en makeupartist leker snickare… ;) Jag slipar med tops, målar med sminkborstar och hamrar med ansiktsprimer, det roliga är att dessa bilder är 100% äkta och inget jag gjort för att vara lite “tokig”. Jag insåg inte ens mitt snickar-tema förrän jag skrev upp “ta med sminkborstar till målning” på min to do-list haha!

This is what my photo corner looks like now! White wax cloth as a background and two small pieces that cover the small windows above. The windows are not visible in my pictures, but if it is bright outside, there will be backlight so they still needed to be covered.

Jag har även fått nya samples på en av produkterna till sminkmärket vi vill starta och det börjar närma sig riktig kvalité nu hörrni, ååh det var så roligt att verkligen känna “yes! here we have it!”Then it takes a lot more tests before I am 100% safe but there is nothing that makes me as happy as really good products!

På tal om nya idéer så kläckte vi ännu en företagsidé här om dagen, nu när vi bor ihop med Annika så finns det ingen hejd på oss haha. Detta är en idé som inte har med skönhetsbranschen att göra utan den kom utifrån våra diskussioner kring graviditet och “snipp-hälsa” kan man säga. Sjukt smart är den! Vi ska göra lite research ;)

I have also taken swatch pictures of the new Pixi Liquid Fairy Lights that I blogged about in this post! I'm in love! :)

Month end & homework
I tisdags skulle vi på förlossningskurs men den blev inställd så vi jobbade hemifrån istället. Bland annat tog jag tag i rapporterna från november och bockade av hela min “checklista vid månadsslut-lista” med allt som ska göras varje månadsslut. Löner ska in och rapporter och statistik ska ordnas. Det är jätteviktigt att ha koll på ekonomin! Detta kommer jag nog aldrig delegera ut till personalen för då skulle jag inte ha stenkoll längre :)

När jag jobbar hemma på heltid så måste jag vara mer strukturerad med “detta är min arbetsstol och här sitter jag alltid när jag jobbar och aldrig när jag är ledig” för att separera jobb och fritid. Men när jag nu bara jobbar hemma då och då så får man gosa ner sig i sängen med godis och kattmys samtidigt ;)

My cat Viktoria thrives so well in her new home! She is more outdoors now than she ever was in Gimo (where she mostly lay on the couch and lazed) and runs in the woods, mischief on the stairs and always wants to lie under the covers when we are in bed ♥

Nu ska jag, Miska och Annika på den där förlossningskursen som blev inställd i tisdags! Det är en “föda utan rädsla-kurs”. Ska bli så spännande! Vi pratar redan jättemycket om andningstekniker, avslappningsövningar m.m men det står olika överallt så det ska bli kul att få en ordentligt genomgång av denna teknik.

Hope you had a great week too!

Hugs are! :)