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!

Men jag har fått mycket gjort i veckan, inget superintressant men sånt som “hängt över” mig lite och gjort att-göra-listan lång och tråkig. Så det är med en skön känsla i kroppen som jag avslutar veckan :)

Customers at the salon!
Eftersom jag har varit “föräldraledig” i januari och mest jobbat hemifrån så var det extra roligt i måndags då jag hade kunder på rullande band på salongen.

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
Jag har verkligen inte mycket pengar om man skulle jämföra med majoriteten av ni som läser, men jag är duktig på att spara! Detta är riktigt klyschigt men det är inte dom höga intäkterna som gör dig rik utan dom låga utgifterna och även fast jag samtidigt tycker att “man ska satsa för att vinna” så betyder inte det att man ska lägga pengar på saker i onödan – vilket väldigt många gör!

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.

Eftersom jag inte vill operera bort mina halsmandlar så ska jag nu påbörja en psykisk och fysisk rening av mig själv istället! Först och främst har jag bokat tid imorgon för att ta ut min hormonspiral. Jag är egentligen nöjd med den men eftersom det så tydligt är varje månad som jag blir sjuk så tänker jag att hormonbalansen kan ha en del i det hela? Dessutom har jag börjat tycka det är lite sjukt att jag inte vet hur min kropp är utan hormoner då jag haft det sen jag var 14 år. Och så hade jag en “gråtkväll” i veckan också haha för jag kom på att en kund sa till mig förut att hon insett att varje gång hon blev förkyld så behövde hon egentligen bara gråta.

Och så sa Miska en kväll “nu bokar jag så du får semester och bara slappna av”. Jag ÄLSKADE vår resa till Spanien men det var mitt i att hets så lugnet blev inte så långvarigt. Men nu blir det hotellmys i 2 veckor utan att jag kommer hem till stress efteråt. Dessutom ska jag använda denna tid till att skriva på min bok! :) Gud så mysigt!

Den här godingen som jag sydde upp byxbenen på kommer vara en semesterfavorit ♥ I bakgrunden ser ni Annika på golvet som syr “dregglisar” och Miska som vaggar bebis i famnen. På tal om psykisk hälsa så är dom här personerna mina räddare i nöden, det är tack vare dom som jag mår så bra som jag gör! :)

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.
Utöver kunder i måndags så har jag mestadels suttit framför datorn i veckan. Det har varit ovanligt mycket mailande men också så låg jag efter med allt “månadsslutjobb” eftersom jag var sjuk förra veckan, så jag har pysslat med löner, rapporter, fakturor och sådant.

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
Det som tog mest tid var schemat för vår nya makeupartist Shafiee då Lisa blir mammaledig sista april men Shafiee kan inte ta över hennes pass helt förrän juni. Så maj blir ett “hoppigt” schema och sen blir sommarschemat anpassat efter Lisas schema och de andras semestrar :) Shafiee är egentligen hennes efternamn, hon heter Sara men vi kommer få såå mycket missförstånd på salongen om vi har två med samma namn så den nya Sara får bli Shafiee istället haha :) Perfekt ändå med efternamn som passar som förnamn, “vår nya makeupartist Karlsson” hade ju inte varit så kul men Shafiee är jättefint som förnamn ju!

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! ♥